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Gustav Klimt’s absolutely amazing works of art and Gustav Mahler.

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A series of recent paintings(2008) by artist Jan Blencowe featured at www.dailypainters.com

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This video is made for any person who wants to learn oil painting. This video will give you a solid base of knowledge. http://merrillk.com
Today, I am going to show you how to paint a puppy dog. I made this video for beginner to intermediate level artists, who wish to learn about traditional painting…I will try to show you how to paint. step by step. While I can imagine that painting a realistic looking puppy is intimidating for someone new to art, I will try to make my instruction as clear as possible, so that you can get in to great habits for the future. Once you are in good habits, you will progress very quickly.

I split this lesson in to four parts.

1.) Part one will cover what you need to know before you paint.
2.) Part two will give you an effective strategy for painting realistically The mentality of rendering (aka drawing what you see)
3.) Part three will walk you through the process of painting and I will give you tips while I paint. The process of “sculpting” a painting
4.) Part four will actually be a separate video and it will discuss glazing…a great finishing strategy. Glazing: Finishing a painting (Covered in another video)

Part 1.) I have two points to go over in Part 1-

1-1- First, pick a surface to work on. When I was learning painting, I would use cardboard in place of canvas to save money. Ten years later my original oil paintings are still in good shape. However, this would not be the case if I didn’t prime the cardboard with layers of Gesso. Without getting over technical, gesso gives your surface a protective layer that will prevent the oil from being over absorbed. Try to remember this silly saying, “Paint with cream, not with butter or milk!” No, im not saying that you should break out the dairy prodicts…..I am referring to the consistency of the paint. Cream is not a solid like butter …..and is not watery like milk. When you apply paint to a surface it should be creamy in texture. You can make the paint creamy by adding about three to four drops of painting medium to the paint that is sitting on your palette. The object in my hand right now is called a palette knife. I used it to mix the paint with the painting medium. For a long time, I considered this step trivial, but it makes a difference!

1-2 Oil Painters use mineral spirits to clean off their brushes and to thin out a paint mixture. Mineral Spirits is also known commercially as paint thinner and sold as an art supply called turpenoid for quadruple the price. You will only need a SMALL amount of Mineral Spirits because its very powerful. Use it sparingly when you wish to thin out your paint; because too much will make the paint runny and “milk-like” in consistency. Here is a great tip to remember when cleaning your brushes…..WIPE-DIP-WIPE. As silly as that sounds, commit it to memory….In other words….. wipe your brush with a paper towel…..Then dip it in to the mineral spirits and swish it around….followed by another wipe with the paper towel to take the extra spirits off your brush. The last wipe is especially important to prevent the excess mineral spirits from thinning out your paint too much

Part 2

Now you will learn a great strategy to help you paint what you see. I call this strategy, “jigsaw puzzle observation” because it is similar to putting a jigsaw puzzle together. Jigsaw puzzles are fun because you fit shapes together to create an image………I want you to think the same way when you paint. Try to see and identify shapes and then put them together like a puzzle. Painters sculpt and manipulate the paint on the surface of a painting until the shapes fit together as a recognizable image. Here….let me show you what I mean…..When you try this, I recommend that you get in the habit of looking at your reference image at least once for every five seconds; and then paint what you observed. After you get the bigger shapes in…..work your way down to the smaller shapes…….. If you feel that you cant work the paint any more. Let it dry and repeat this step on top of the dried paint. You have an advantage by using paint because it is opaque and it can cover over any mistake…… Take your time with this step. Skyscrapers cant be erected without solid supports and good paintings cannot be made without careful placement.
How to begin oil painting vido
Supply List
- Titanium White (paint)
- Raw Sienna (paint)
- Ultramarine Blue (paint)
- Ultramarine Purple (paint)
- Lamp Black (paint)
- Painting Medium (my favorite is called Liquin)
- Palette, Wax Paper or Aluminum foil (to mix the paint on)
- Mineral Spirits
- Canvas or Cardboard
- Gesso (white or clear)
- Paint Brushes (several sizes, tips, and softnesses……based on your preference)
- Cups for Mineral Spirits and Paint Medium

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On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, 1868, (1872/1873), The Woman in the Green Dress, 1866, Le dejeuner sur l’herbe, 1865-1866, Flowering Garden at Sainte-Adresse, 1866, Woman in a Garden, 1867, Jardin à Sainte-Adresse, 1867, Seine Basin with Argenteuil, 1872, Jean Monet on his Hobby Horse, 1872, The Artist’s House at Argenteuil, 1873, Poppies Blooming, 1873, Madame Monet in a Japanese Costume, 1875, Woman with a Parasol, (Camille and Jean Monet), 1875, Camille Monet at Work, 1875, Argenteuil, 1875, , Saint Lazare Train Station, Paris, 1877, Rue Montorgueil, 1878, Camille Monet, on her deathbed, 1879, Vétheuil in the Fog, 1879, Paris, Street near Vétheuil in Winter, 1879, Lavacourt: Sunshine and Snow, 1879-1880 Port-Goulphar, Belle-Île, 1887, The Cliffs at Etretat, 1885, Still-Life with Anemones, 1885, The Port Coton Pyramids, 1886, Haystacks, (sunset), 1890-1891, Poplars, (autumn), 1891, Rouen Cathedral, Facade (sunset), 1892-1894, Branch of the Seine near Giverny, 1897, Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies, 1899, Pappeln on the Epte, 1900, Garden Path, 1902, Houses of Parliament, London, c. 1904, Water Lilies, 1907, Palace From Mula, Venice, 1908, Water Lilies, 1914-1917, Nympheas, c. 1916, Water Lilies, 1916, Water-Lily Pond and Weeping Willow, 1916-1919, Weeping Willow, 1918-1919, Sea-Roses (Yellow Nirwana), 1920, Water Lilies, 1920-1926, Monet, right, in his garden at Vernon, 1922.

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William (Bill) Alexander was born in 1915 in East Prussia. As a youth he used his artistic talents to paint carriages and murals for local aristocrats. After the war, Bill and his family immigrated to North America to pursue their dream of building a home and to share Bills gift of painting.

Bill and his wife, Margaret, traveled throughout the United States and Canada teaching painting and making friends, often selling paintings to meet living expenses along the way. During this time Bill worked hard to develop his wet-on-wet technique and products. He developed the base medium Magic White, extra-thick oil paints, and special palette knives and brushes. These products work together to help artists, even a beginning artist, create beautiful scenes on the canvas.

By 1974, when he completed his first Emmy-winning Magic of Oil painting television show, Bills dream had become a reality. He had built himself a home in North America a home in the hearts of thousands who discovered with Bills help that they could have the almighty power to fire in and be happy painters too. Today, Bill continues to teach the world to paint through his television shows available on DVD.

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This is a biography of the famous Impressionist painter, Claude Monet, which I made using FinalCut Pro.

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A video of Tennessee history. The Tennessee Theme song Rocky Top. There is so much spirit in Tennessee. Atlanta artist Corey Barksdale video about state of Tennessee. Corey Barksdale has lived in Atlanta for about 15 years and has become one of Atlanta’s premier artist. Corey Barksdale has exhibited his artwork at the Atlanta Dogwood festival, Decatur Art Festival, Virginia-Highlands Art Festival, National Black Art Festival, Atlanta Jazz Festival, Artsplosure in Raleigh North Carolina, Art Festival in Paducah, Kentucky, One of a Kind Show in Chicago, etc. Decatur, GA artist Corey Barksdale has painted for audiences in the city of Atlanta,

This video was created by Atlanta & Decatur Fine Artist Corey Barksdale. Please visit Corey’s website. http://www.coreybarksdale.com/

The song was written by a married couple, songwriters Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. They wrote “Rocky Top” in only ten minutes in 1967. The Bryants were working in Gatlinburg on a collection of slow-tempo songs for a project for Archie Campbell and Chet Atkins. Writing the fast-paced “Rocky Top” served as a temporary diversion for them. Recorded by the Osborne Brothers in 1967, the song was a top 40 hit on the country music charts in early 1968.

Although a staple of their concerts, the song did not achieve mass popularity until Lynn Anderson had a hit with it in 1970, and when the “Pride of the Southland” University of Tennessee marching band used it for one of their drills in 1972. The song was very popular and was officially adopted as a state song in 1982. In the 1970s, the song achieved such popularity among bar crowds that the Chapel Hill, North Carolina, old-time band the Red Clay Ramblers [1] national tours included a crowd-pleasing satire informally titled “Play ‘Rocky Top’ (or I’ll Punch Your Lights Out.)”[2]

The original “Rocky Top” song describes a place called Rocky Top, Tennessee, which is one of the three peaks of Thunderhead Mountain in Tennessee (located in the Smoky Mountains) in the eastern part of the state. The peak is actually located along the border between Tennessee and North Carolina.[3][4]

Despite its fast and upbeat tempo, the song’s first verse is actually a lament over a failed love affair and a vanishing way of life. The song’s second verse is an ode to two apparent revenuers and the illegal production of alcoholic beverages by moonshining, with a reference to “looking for a moonshine still.” These are all common country music themes. With its good-natured regional references to a carefree lifestyle, the singing of “Rocky Top” by Tennessee college students and alumni at sports venues such as Neyland Stadium is well established. The University of Tennessee has been granted a perpetual license to play the song as much and as often as success on the field dictates by the copyright holders, House of Bryant.

Contrary to popular belief, “Rocky Top” is not UT’s official fight song, although it is so closely identified with the university that many believe this to be the case. UT’s official fight song is a radically different tune called “Here’s To Old Tennessee”, adapted from the Yale University fight song “Down the Field”.

“Operation Rocky Top” was the FBI’s code name for a public corruption investigation into the Tennessee state government in the late 1980s which resulted in the eventual suicide of the Tennessee Secretary of State, Gentry Crowell, and the incarceration of several other individuals, most notably state House Majority Leader Tommy Burnette. The focus of the investigation was the illegal sale of bingo licenses.

The jam band Phish played “Rocky Top” regularly from 1987 to 2003. There have been additional cover versions of the song by such country music artists as Dolly Parton, Conway Twitty, and Billie Jo Spears. It can also be known as the official fight song of David Webb, a noted band director in Central Virginia at Jefferson Forest High.

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represented by Singapore Li Fine Art Gallery http://www.lifineart.com Still Life Oil Painting Lesson Class Online
by Ng Woon Lam mfa nws. Winner of various national and international art juried awards.

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Reiq’s Corel Painter Tutorial- Line-art (digital inking)
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‘Ural Owl’ by Tracy Hall.
Finely detailed watercolour painting showing the stages from the initial sketch to the completed piece. The painting measures 6.5″ x 4.5″ and is worked on Arches HP paper.

This is my first attempt at a video of me working; I hope its not too long and that you enjoy it:)
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Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903)

“Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for”? (Camille Pissarro)

Pissarro was born in 1830 in St. Thomas, the West Indies. In 1841 he was sent to school in Paris where he created his first drawings. By 1847 he returned to St. Thomas to work for his father which he did not like and consequently ran away to Caracas, Venezuela, for 2 years to paint. His first pictures were West Indian scenes in an – Oriental Style -. In 1855 his father finally allowed him to study art in Paris. He became friends with Monet, Cezanne and Guillaumin and played a key role in the development of Impressionism. He was the only artist to show in all 8 of the Impressionist exhibitions. For him Impressionism was a movement which allowed artistic emancipation. He believed strongly in free thought and speech. Before he introduced figures into his work in 1880, giving them a more decorative character, his paintings resembled most those of Monet. Later on Pissarro was attracted to Seurat’s Pointillism and saw it as a logical development of Impressionism. He adopted Seurat’s techniques but with limited success. Camille Pissarro was born in the West Indies, but studied in Paris under Corot. He also studied with Monet at the Academie Suisse, who encouraged him to join the Impressionists. Both Monet and Pissarro lived in London from 1870 to 1871 to avoid the Franco-Prussian War. From 1885-1888, Pissarro explored the divisionism technique of Neoimpressionist, Seurat, before returning to his original style. Confined indoors because of his failing eyesight, Pissarro painted views of Rouen and Paris from 1896 to his death.

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Still-Life, arranged by Anton Mauve and executed by Van Gogh, December 1881, Vincent van Gogh: View from his atelier in The Hague, watercolour, The Potato Eaters (1885), Skull with a Burning Cigarette , oil on canvas, 1885, Vincent van Gogh, pastel drawing by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1887, Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, August 1888 (Neue Pinakothek, Munich, The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night, September 1888, The Red Vineyard (November 1888), Pushkin Museum, Moscow). Sold to Anna Boch, 1890, The Starry Night, June 1889 (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Portrait of Dr. Gachet was sold for 82.5 million US dollars, current whereabouts unknown, Vincent and Theo van Gogh’s graves at the cemetery of Auvers-sur-Oise, Still Life with Absinthe (1887), the Hermitage Museum was painted six weeks before the artist’s death, at around eight o’clock on 16 June 1890, as astronomers determined by Venus’s position in the painting, Patch of Grass, (1887), The Blooming Plumtree (after Hiroshige), (1887), Portrait of Père Tanguy, (1887), Cherry Tree, (1888), The Old Mill, (1888), The Harvest, Arles, (1888), Bridge at Arles, (1888), View of Arles with Irises, (1888), The Rhônebarken, (1888), Starry Night Over the Rhone, (1888), Joseph Roulin, (the Postmaster), (1888), The Night Café, (1888), Yale, Bedroom in Arles, (1888), Van Gogh Museum, Cypresses, (1889), Cornfield with Cypresses, (1889), View of Arles (Flowering Orchards), (1889), The Olive Trees, (1889), Entrance of the Hospital, Saint-Remy, (1889), L’Arlesienne: (Madame Ginoux), (1890), The Round of the Prisoners, (1890), Wheat Field with Crows, (1890) and more …

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