Watercolor painting

The art of painting dates back to pre-historic times, the finger used as a paintbrush on the canvas of cave walls. When it comes to painting, artists have many mediums to choose from: acrylics, oils, gouache, fresco, and watercolors. Watercolors is one of the toughest mediums to achieve, its transparent streaks almost impossible to cover up and its various techniques prestigous and precise, but satisfying when accomplished. The incentive a watercolor artist has to get a taste of perfecting their

tube. Then, 0.25 M solution of potassium ferrocyanide was mixed in. They were then filtered, and left to dry. The next week there were four paint binding options: egg tempura, casein, acrylic, and water color or gum arabic. This experiment used watercolor. The first step was to grind the pigment with water to make a stiff paste. Then, gum Arabic was added in a 1:1 ratio. Results: The data produced from the experiment demonstrates that when two solutions are mixed, they undergo a reaction that

Description Atomic Vacation is an outstanding example of contemporary art. The painting was created with acrylic paints on a 6 x 7 foot canvas. Todd Schorr (American artist) painted Atomic Vacation in 2008 but, did not release it till the art show “Designed for Extinction” where he showcased his last decade of work. This painting caused a huge controversy with religious groups from the area around the Otis College of Art and Design in L.A. Todd Schorr is known as one of the best acrylic painters

concentrated on painting. In 1865, Homer reaped the rewards of his work and was elected to the National Academy of Design. In 1866 after the war, Homer traveled to France preferring the Vibrant landscapes than his city life in New York although his remained unchanged. In 1872 Homer created a masterpiece named Snap the Whip. It was the belief that the children were America’s embodiments of innocents and their future. The painting has vibrant colors with masterful precision. The painting displays

This painting is a picture of the fireman putting out a fire in 1858. The people putting out the fire are where less protective clothing. The transportation is a wagon and the firemen are used wooden ladders to get into tall buildings. This print is shows

literature and art were not as important because the main focus was an impending on a civil war. At the beginning of the war aged twenty five Homer accompanied general George B. McClellan with the union army and his paintings became more notable since he visualized his war experiences in paintings to show the American people (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review). However post civil war especially later during the industrial revolution their was more leisure time and more

My bedroom is not a place for the entire community. However, it is just as comfortable to me as someone else’s room is just as comfortable to them. My room is comparably different though. It’s not just a place where I keep all my stuff and sleep all day. There’s more to my private abode than what meets the eye. Walking on the hardwood floor feels like a punch to the bottom of your foot. The flooring creaks throughout the house as if it were haunted. However, it’s my private space out of the rest

Europe, Asia and Africa. The only thing missing was color to make the drawings more lifelike. By experimenting with plants, berries and minerals, men have developed beautiful colors that have been improved until we have the tempera, oils, acrylic and watercolor that artists use today. Tempera is the oldest paint medium known to man. Powered minerals, plants or clay were used for pigment and egg yolks were used as a binder. Sometimes, artists mixed the tempera with plaster to make frescoes on walls. Tempera

One piece of artwork that I did that has all the seven elements of art was my animal watercolor painting. The seven elements of art are line, shape, color, value, form , texture, and space. Somethings that these elements help with are make the artwork more realistic. It can also help how realistic the details are and how it looks three dimensional. The first element I used was line. Line helps you make a outline of what you are trying to make. Line is the edges of a figure and it can be made with

and landscape paintings as well as some textural effects that had never been seen before like watercolor, Casein and Lithography. The exhibition displays some of his well known paintings like The Battery(1953), The Lance colliery, Wilkes Barre(1948) and Central Park Night (1946). This paintings all transport you into that exact moment and allows you to be apart of that landscape, feel its beauty as well as a part of of what is going on on that scene. At the exhibition the painting The Battery is