Color Advances Science
color and science belonged next to each other? Does it surprise you to know that colors actually advance science, and makes new discoveries possible? It is
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The Creative, Artistic and Inventive Mind of Leonardo da Vinci
Being an artist also means having a deep connection with the world around you, viewing life with a different set of lenses. Not just a painter, sculptor, actor… Leonardo da Vinci
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Tips for Improving your Landscape Drawing Skills
Whatever your level of skill, these tips will help guide you in developing habits that will grow your abilities to draw and paint landscape scenery with just a couple of weeks of consistent practice. Implement these for 15 or 20 minutes a day and the improvements will be greatly evident. Tip No. 1 – Quick…
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Artistic Characteristics of the Right Brain and Left Brain
Do all artists use the right side of their brain? As the region that hosts both creativity, imagination and art awareness, it seems so. However, more people are finding that their inner artist can be awaken no matter what side of the brain dominates.
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Mosaics: Creating Art with Technique
Mosaics are images or patterns created by way of placing small stones, pieces of glass, or other small materials together to form a piece of decorative art. The earliest known mosaics were found in a temple in Mesopotamia, dating all the way back to the second half of the third millennium BC. Their significance in…
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Water Water is a funny thing. When we are submerged, it is the one known natural element that resists the pull of gravity by working with the natural buoyancy…
DetailsIcicles
An icicle is a spike of ice formed when water dripping or falling from an object freezes. The heat source which causes the ice to melt is typically the sun. Although icicles might be a hazard when positioned over people, they generally exist in natural surroundings where snow and rain fall off exist. Because of…
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Using Complimentary Colors
For some artists, the use of complimentary colors may seem like the basic of the basics. Without much thought they may discount their effect and use them as if they are second nature. But let’s not forget, sometimes simplicity can be the most elegant and (ironically) sophisticated approach to an artists color scheme. Using complimentary…
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Chalk Art Transforms the Sidewalk into a Canvas
For many, chalk brings back childhood memories of scribbling figures out on the sidewalk, playing hop scotch in self-made disproportionate boxes, and being saddened each time the rain washes everything away. Today, many professional and amateur artists never leave the driveway. There are many different mediums to work within, but one of the fastest expanding…
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