December 8th, 2009
Giclee is considered to be a superior form of fine art printing and is better than any other forms of inkjet printing. In French the term giclee stands for “a spray of liquid”, which is the technique used in giclee. In giclee modern inkjet printers eject ink onto paper in a continuous motion and can also use around 8-9 colors as opposed to 3-4 colors that is used in lithography. Giclee fine art print is a common form for reproducing artists work to digitally archive them.
In modern art, giclee prints are seen as a boon since it is an affordable way of printing their work for sale. Earlier they had to pre-print and mass produce multiple copies without knowing if they would be sold. Now with the advent of giclee art reproductions happening, artists are able to print only when an order is placed and thus cut down on expenses. The archival value of some of these paintings is immense and yet the artists do not have to worry about preserving the quality of their paintings or about its safety.
The other advantages of giclee include the fact that it allows reproduction of the images on any type of media such as canvas, watercolor paper, and others. The images can also be reproduced to any size that is required and often, depending on the picture resolution, life size images can also be printed. While earlier an original artwork of the artist was sold for millions, now the artist has an option to digitally recreate his work and sell it many more art enthusiasts. Since the cost of production involved is low, the cost of these prints is low as well, thus enabling a wider audience to purchase them. The other benefit of digital prints is that they can be recreated in various ways like matted look, small photo prints, postcards or any other way as the artist might choose to print it.
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November 9th, 2009
Art paintings were done even when cave paintings and murals were made. With time, the subject of art painting got a boost. Experimentations became the order of the day. Different materials or surfaces and different color combinations marked the painting turf of different centuries.
Oil paintings had caught the imagination of painters even in the pre-renaissance era. Making these paintings through a pigment tied to the dry oil medium was in itself a revelation then. These art paintings were largely practiced on canvas; though paper, wood, papyrus, vellum was also heard of. It used the boiled mixture of linseed and resin or frankincense to create the painting varnish. Such varnish or oil helped with the paintings.
Oil paintings gave a lot of importance to layering. The under layers were made with turpentine oil and on top of that many distinctive layers of oil paints were used to provide with the necessary contours. It used hog’s bristle for bold shots and Squirrel’s fur for mild brush strokes. We are talking about the brushes here.
Watercolor paintings also had its fair share of glory and is still running well. Art paintings that evolved through the use of watercolors found its feet largely in the post renaissance time. It used pigments which are dissoluble in water solvent vehicle. Watercolor paintings are largely done on paper. With the invention of far many compact combinations of colors, even the paper has become wove paper today. Today the water colors come in metal tubes or dried depressed cakes.
Europe denied the revolution its impetus when it started using aniline dyes in bright-colored medium. This got duly exposed in sunlight and left the surface. This had caused quite a stir and subsequent downfall of watercolor paintings.
Another genre of art paintings were the abstract paintings. These were the most contorted but the freest expressions of the subconscious. Any defined image using visual dynamics as an illusion for visual reality marked such paintings. These art paintings did not draw any inspiration from real world whatsoever. Abstract paintings got the necessary fillip through George Braque and Pablo Picasso when they came with the Baroque movement and Cubism respectively.
Few of the masters who have envisaged and equally implemented art paintings are:
Cubism- he came up with Cubism and defined the world from a vantage point as conceived by the painter and not as perceived by him.
Impressionism- Paul Cezanne’s movement was ably taken by Renoir. It dealt with pointed images; pointed staircases leading towards pointed houses. Such pointed; peaked houses have been psychologically inferred as being the result of years of Nazi oppression.
Dali’s Surrealism and other art paintings that evolved out of Impressionism and romanticism were equally brilliant and still hold value.
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September 10th, 2009
Young children are often overlooked by the traditional drawing curriculums that tends to focus on children over twelve or thirteen years old, who are blessed with natural talent and who can usually draw already. School teachers do craft projects and provide younger children with free time to do symbolic stick-figure-style drawings. Yet, unless children are given instruction and guidance, before they stop symbolic drawing they will assume they weren’t born with the ability to draw realistically. The closer they get to preteen years, the more they will resist the activity and not want to try at all.
However, if children are given structured lessons in realist drawing from the time they are very young, they will quickly graduate to sophisticated and skilled drawings right after giving up their symbolic drawing styles.
Everybody can enjoy drawing, but sometimes it’s hard to know where to begin. Many people make the mistake of drawing what they think something looks like, instead of really looking at it carefully first. Hervey Bay artist, JoAnn Clarke, said that a set of simple general principles are required. Just as a composer and musician can break things down into their basic components, so too by breaking down a subject into a series of simple elements a child can analyze what they ’see’ and then put it into drawing.
By utilizing the basic components of shape a student is able to create any possible image with the fewest number of lines. This has been termed the “alphabet of shape” that consists of five basic elements; circle, dot, straight line, curved line and angle. Any object that a student wants to draw can simply be analysed in terms of how these elements of shape are combined. Thus children can be trained to see each general shape and then be free to interpret the detail in any way they wish. Thus, every child is able to achieve realistic representation of the subject drawn and still be creatively unique.
Besides the obvious benefit of learning to draw, students also develop fine motor skills, problem-solving abilities and improved concentration. Case studies have also shown how children, who have undertaken tuition in drawing, within a positive, non-judgmental, non-competitive environment, have made marked improvements in areas such as disorientation or misrepresentation of images, hyperactivity, communication ability and reading readiness, introverted behaviour, resistance to participation and inability to observe or remember instruction sequences.
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