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February 15, 2017 By Annie

Crayon Art – “Singin In The Rain”

Creating a crayon art picture with melted crayons

Here is how to create your very own crayon art picture

You will need the following:

A canvas

A Pack of crayons

Some Glue

Hot Air Gun

First take your canvas and then use your glue and cover about a quarter of the way down.� You want enough so that your crayons will stick.� You can also use the length of your crayon as a guide. Next glue your crayons,� you can either assemble them in a particular order of your choice, or simply just pick and glue at random.

Once all the crayons are in place, you can then use your hot air gun to melt the wax and run down your picture.

You can of course draw anything you like and create your very own pictures.

Here the artist has picked the classic image from the film “Singing in the� Rain” and has the legendary singer and actor Gene Kelly performing the song of the same name.

A simple but very effective� and quick way of making something that looks full of colour and alive.

January 9, 2017 By Annie

Crosswater Paints – New Paints To Create Unique Abstract Art

Learn how to make your own individual pieces of abstract art, with the latest paints called crosswater paints

This kit allows you to become an artist even If you have never painted a picture before. They are simple and easy to use, so there is no need to worry about what picture you want to create. Once you have used these paints a few times, you will be amazed at the pictures that you can produce and no two pictures will be the same. There are only a few items that you will need and they are:

A canvas
Crosswaters white medium
Crosswaters expander
Crosswaters colours

The Canvas can be bought at any art store and the crosswaters come in kits, so you don’t need to remember each individual item and they can be bought online also at: www.ArtWaters.com

Will I need to do anything to the Crosswaters to prepare them before use?

Yes, you prepare the white medium by placing a sealed one ounce squeeze bottle into a bowl of hot water for 15 minutes, once warmed up you lightly shake and you are ready to squeeze on to canvas. These paints can also be used on watercolour paper.

How long do the paintings take to dry?
On average the paintings will be dry in 1.5 hours.

You can order on line, either by using paypal or other forms of debit or credit cards.

As you see below they ship outside of the US to other countries as well

Do you ship outside of the U.S.?

Yes, we ship to all foreign countries. Please e-mail us for information.

May 19, 2015 By Annie

Spiritual Artists With Psychic Abilities

A look into how some artists have extra sensory gifts and are able to draw portraits of loved ones, friends or neighbors who have now passed over into the spirit world.

First of all let me give you an explanation of what a psychic artist is.

A psychic artist is a person who is able to channel information.� Ordinarily a medium may receive information in spoken word or be given a picture.� However a psychic artist is also given a picture and then transfers this information from mind to canvas. The artist has never met the person before that they draw and has no prior knowledge of this person.

When you sit down and talk to a medium they are just like you and I.� Ordinary people who go to work, go on holiday and live their life’s like anyone else.� They are not strange at all.� They may talk to you and make you relax, as sometimes we can be a bit nervous. There is nothing to worry about and nothing bad will happen.

Sometimes the artist may draw a picture of a loved one.� The information comes through and as they are drawing they will describe to you the person and what they are drawing.� When they have finished they will show you and you may be able to recognize the person straight away.� Other times, the picture of the person maybe when they were much younger.� This is because when we die, we can choose to look the way that we want to.� If someone close died of an illness or had an accident, they may decide to show themselves, before this happened and also, maybe when they were in their teens. This is because we hold special memories of times in our life that we found exciting and that made us truly happy, so it would make sense that you would like to be seen like that again.

Other times the artist may draw a picture of your spirit guide.� This is a person who is with you from the moment that you were born.� They stay with you until you die.� A guide is a person that you have met in a past life and have shared a past life with.� It could be a friend, your husband, a child.� When they died they agreed that they would look after you and help guide you on your spiritual path.� We do of course have other guides than come into our life’s, but they only stay for a short time and then leave.� Your birth guide never leaves you.

If you haven’t heard of these type of artists before then let me introduce to you Coral Polge:

Coral Polge

Born in Britain, Coral was a world renowned psychic artist who drew astoundingly accurate artwork of spirit and travelled the world sharing her gift. Coral learned of her exceptional talent when she was advised by a medium of her rare capability. Some time later, just after the second world war, she realized that the advice she had been given was true.

Audiences around the world were astonished and profoundly touched by Coral�s work. Automatic spirit controls would take control of Coral�s hand to guide her with accuracy and astounding results. Her portraits were renowned for their exceptional similarity with photographs of people that had passed to spirit and provided extremely strong evidence of life after death. During her lifetime, Coral drew over 100,000 spirit portraits and made an enormous contribution to spiritualism. Along with many other great mediums, such as Gordon Higginson, Coral proved that one day, when the time is right, we are reunited in spirit with our loved ones.

The son of Mrs Bayles of Rhodesia(S.Africa), who died while having an operation to correct his broken nose, which is shown in the psychic portrait as being in slightly better shape in his Spirit Body. This drawing was done as a ‘postal reading’, and the lad’s character is clearly captured.

A really fascinating look into a different side of art and how it has helped many people.

As for believing it, I will let you all make your own minds up.

October 31, 2012 By Thomo

Acrylic Paint: How To Paint A Sky And Clouds Using Acrylics

In this short humble video you are taught how to achieve a sky using basic wash principles. Thoroughly saturating the canvas with water applied by a large brush followed by the introduction of an artist’s medium known as ‘Gesso’ to then prime the surface. It is then a case of washes and grading to finalise the sky alongside the confident use of ample amounts of white acrylic to create bold natural looking clouds. Enjoy.

October 29, 2012 By Thomo

Michael Shapcott: Painting An Exotic Lady

A very different colorful and energetic intro leads you this mixed medium painting demonstration where artist Michael Shapcott works into his canvas with a variety of brushes, sponges, inks, pencil, acrylics and oils to create a portrait of a young exotic lady.

He delivers with energy and enthusiasm for his subject matter and begins with a medium paint brush by gathering all the outlines of the face and the the facial features themselves before moving on to developing tones and a soft color palette to begin under painting the face. He use a small round brush in an almost dry application to gather intensity and high quality detailing for the eyes on a close-up camera shot to allow you to see how he moves the brush to gather a realistic impression of an eye.

For his larger areas like the surrounding head scarf he uses a large sponge to get a very quick yet even finish which as an added bonus dries much quicker allowing you to work into the paint with greater detail without having to wait like you would expect from a much thicker coat.

The video is time lapsed and offers the viewer much to look at and learn but ultimately shows how a variety of different mediums with very different properties can work together to create something very detailed and eye catching on canvas. So get your kit and get creative.

October 28, 2012 By Thomo

Quang Ho: Learn How to Paint with Oils

This video demonstrates some collective skills acquired over the years by artist and teacher Quang Ho. The video touches on three or four different areas surrounding the use of brushes, tones and highlighting and the use of the oils on the canvas. Ho talks through each practice and relays what he is doing back to the viewer. With 30 years experience he is definitely worth listening to. Wouldn’t you say?

October 27, 2012 By Thomo

William Gelvin: Painting A Wet On Wet Landscape For Beginners (Playlist)

Ever popular artist William Gelvin introduces beginners and intermediates to join him in the video playlist where he creates a stunning landscape from start to finish. His step by step approach and expert knowledge of oils and the required tools allows for a very successful and easy to learn from video tutorial. Everything is covered including some advanced techniques and tips for making your painting as successful as possible. Have fun and enjoy.

October 25, 2012 By Annie

Baby Graffiti Portrait By Akse (P19 Crew) Time Lapse

Artist Akse uses a photo of a baby and then sets to work by creating a picture of the baby by spray painting onto a canvas Akse is a French Graffiti Artist who has been based in Manchester UK since 1997.

Akse started painting in 1992 and became a member of the P19 Crew (founded by Pest) in 1993. Although Akse started writing Letters, he quickly specialised in Characters. Over the last few years Akse has focused on freehand High-Definition HD photo-realism graffiti portraits. Akse was shortlisted with 100 other artists (out of 1200 entries) to participate in the BBC2 program “??Show me the Monet”?� (May 2011) and received a “??Yes”?� vote from Art critic Charlotte Mullins who wrote the book “??Painting People: the State of the Art”?� (Thames & Hudson, 2006) and was a judge for the 2009 BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery. All the picture has been spray painted and the technique and skill he uses to create eyelashes on the baby is amazing. Check out his artwork and further details see his webpage www.aske-19.com

October 23, 2012 By Thomo

How To Paint A Rose In Acrylic Paint – Grisaille

Are you a beginner in art looking to further yourself a little quicker? If the answer is yes then this could be the tutorial for you. In this art tutorial you will be painting a beautiful Rose in a Grisaille with Acrylic Paint which is a traditional old master’s technique where firstly the under painting is achieved to paint the tones and shadow areas before being painted over by a semi transparent paint which covers the remaining canvas but still allows the under painting to come through.

Traditionally it would be oil paint which was used as a medium but nowadays with the advancements and versatility of paints this artist has decided to use acrylic paint which will not only look very similar but has a much faster drying time than oils because it is water based.

The first stage is to draw the rose on to the canvas so to do this he uses reference points to find the proportions of the rose he is drawing as his composition. Using reference points is an easy way to draw accurate areas like in this painting for example he draws reference points at the base and the tops of his rose petals then uses his artistic eye to reference directly from his photo to imitate their shape. �at this point in the video he comes in with a little tip and encourages you to stand back from your canvas to make sure that your drawing looks as it should, many people starting out in art forget to view their art from a distance which can cost them lots of time and rectifying in both the long and short term.

Once you’re happy with your drawing reach for a large 4 inch paintbrush and begin to paint all the way around the edge of the rose in black acrylic paint to form a silhouette. Now the artist uses a smaller flat acrylic paint brush to start forming tones within his rose and then to compliment these tones he comes in with the white highlights and once this is completed you should have a nice monochrome rose with a surrounding black background.

The final part to this video is where he demonstrates the mix of 5 parts acrylic glazing medium to one part acrylic paint to get the desired semi transparent�consistency which will be applied as the over painting. The tones and highlights of your monochrome painting will naturally appear through this glaze and this is probably the most satisfying part of the whole grisaille process. I hope you enjoyed this art tutorial and you have used it as inspiration to have a go at creating your own artwork.

October 13, 2012 By Thomo

Will Kemp: How To Apply A Colored Acrylic Background For Beginners

Artist Will Kemp teaches us in this art tutorial how to create a colored canvas for use with a still life or landscape painting. He selects the acrylic color ‘yellow ochre’ for its tonal qualities and unimposing colour to feature as the background paint. He also advises against the use of this color in portraiture because it is too close to the skin tones.

With a decorator’s brush you paint the sides of the box canvas evenly making sure you are quite rough to get into the grain of the canvas so there is no white primer showing through.Once you are happy there are no drips you can leave the sides and join the surface of the canvas working quickly so the paint doesn’t dry. In a horizontal motion drag the brush slowly side to side making sure you over lap each horizontal stroke to make extra sure the whole canvas is covered. Then that’s it, you’re ready to go with your painting.