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Green Earth ~ Fluid art painting ~ Abstract art ~ #StayCreative
By: Fiona Art
Tags: Acrylic Pouring, Abstract, Art, Painting, Earth

I named this fluid art painting Green Earth. I used Vivid enamel and Colour Arte primary elements with white Cell activator. It took me three tries to get the look that I wanted, but it was worth it.

TECHNIQUE: Bloom technique

COLOURS:

- White for pillow

- Primary elements Wild blueberry, Autumn leaf and Guatemalan Green mixed with Vivid enamel

- Cell activator: 3 parts Australian floetrol to 1 part Amsterdam titanium white

My mixing paints video:

https://youtu.be/ltyiLgQ_Tso

#FionaArt #StayCreative #FluidArt

Green Earth

MATERIAL:

- 8 inch round canvas board

- Paints mixed with pouring medium

- Palete knife

- Cake spinner

- Torch

If you want to support my channel to keep on experimenting with new techniques you can do it through this link:

https://www.patreon.com/fionaart7

https://paypal.me/mi2sva

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Thank you!

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My personal page: https://fionaart.si/

Please understand that I am in no way responsible for the way you use your paint and mediums. Follow all safety instructions of the manufacturers, I can not be held liable.

Be careful and use the proper materials for your safety.

You can’t use any content on my channel, unless I give you a permission!
Do you ever associate pictures with songs?
By: Nicolas Carteron
Tags: Short, Music, Synesthesia, Art, Painting

Do you ever associate pictures with songs? Yesterday, I stumbled upon The Scream, Edvard Munch’s best-known painting, perhaps one of the most famous art pieces in the world. The emotional intensity of the subject reminded me of Camus’ absurd: when Man shouts at the universe and is met with nothing but indifference. It also reminded of one of King Crimson’s darkest songs, The Devil’s Triangle.

Here they are together, an audio-visual experience: The Devil’s Scream, by Evard Crimson.
Enjoy yourself alone
By: Mao Mao
Tags: Motivation, Productivity, Depression, Digital Art, Painting

It is important to spend time with ourselves. Time when we are lonely and start enjoying the time we spend alone. No friends, no family, no lovers. Only ourselves.

Most people are afraid of being alone, while in reality is something that it needs to be embraced. Because when we spend time with ourselves, we learn to love ourselves. We no longer look to please other people, or to fill our time with someone else just because we can’t stand the fact that we can’t be alone.

Most people wear a mask all day. They are attached to the persona they created and when they are finally alone, their true self starts to show off. That is a scary thing. What if someone else see them? This is why most people do crazy things in the shower like dancing or singing, but would never dare to do that outside with the fear of being observed.

The way to cure that is to spend time alone. Want to go to the cinema? Go alone. Want to go to a bar? Go alone. Living with a partner? Now live alone. Even moving to another country where you don’t know anyone is a great solution. At the beginning it may drive you crazy, because you have never been that lonely. But after some months, something beautiful will emerge inside you. You will start showing an authentic part of yourself, and anywhere you go you will feel happy and alive. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know anyone, or if you meet some friends. You are already great alone.

When people meet you, they will feel there is something different with you. You instantly become a magnet to other people. They want to stay with you because there is a great energy. Essentially what you just did was heal yourself before. Now you have something to give to others.

Before being alone the glass was empty. You were a beggar begging for love and attention. But now the glass is full, you are able to share and you don’t need anything in return.

It is now, where you can start having a relationship with others. Before you were always trying to get something out of the other person. If we try to get something out of any relationship, it is not a relationship, it is a transaction. Love is about giving without expecting anything in return. And you can only give when you love yourself first. Otherwise there is nothing to share.

If there is any goal in life, it is to give. To give everything before we leave this world. Because one day, everything we know, everything we have and everyone we love will disappear from our lives. When death comes, it will take everything from you, so before it takes everything from you, you should give everything you got.

In every relationship, now there will be a part of you inside the other person. Even if you leave this world tomorrow, that part will still be there. Even if that person forgets you in some years. That person will change because of you. Even you, if you are reading this, you now have a small part of me.

Your job is only to give. How much you can give to the other person will entirely depend on how much you have to give and how intimate is your relationship with that person.
Dagmar Wankowski, Letting Art Heal
By: Viviana Puello
Tags: Arttour International, Viviana Puello, Dagmar Wankowski, Art, Painting

Creation is innate to each of us. Yet, to embrace its possibilities, we must overcome the limiting idea that we cannot create true art before becoming masters. Indeed, though German artist Dagmar Wankowski created throughout her life, she did not begin painting until 2001, when she was 47-years-old.

Before her first official exhibition, “Berliner Liste 2011,” Dagmar created for herself and, along the way, became the master artist that she is today. She urges us all, as she does, to view art as a supremely unique oasis of calm, “Even if we all do the same picture, you would still see the individual. Art should be a challenge to each of us. To tap into our creative energy. To surround ourselves with positive things. To get away from those moments where everything is chaos.” Not surprisingly, then, her works — across varied mediums and genres — exude potent tranquility that engulfs viewers with a sense of the possible.

Dagmar’s euphoric abstract canvases are a vibrantly blended example of the process-led abstraction that resonates with her international audience, brimming with visceral scrawled textures and the residue of monochromatic patterns and spontaneous drawing. Dagmar incorporates form, with mixed media and an exotic color palette, often to very vibrant results. Figurative elements drip, and earthy images appear, then melt away, in both her biological and conceptual galactic abstracts. Her canvases burst with energetic brushstrokes, giving her viewers a veritable buffet of gradient strokes to interlace colors and blend so seamlessly. Inwardly these abstract paintings could be reflective of chaos and harmony.

Exhibited around the globe, these creative shelters are Dagmar’s gifts to the world and its people. For, we are given the opportunity to embrace who we are in her works. When we can do so, we can inspire others to find the same freedom. This is where the magic happens.

Indeed, Dagmar is passionate about this wisdom when creating her own masterpieces and sharing the work of others. “When I purchase art for myself, it is at that moment I see it that I know I must bring it home. The artist has captured my attention. You don’t choose the painting; the painting chooses you.” Suffice to say, her abstract and vibrant works have chosen many, just as many have chosen to accept their invitation to creation. Most recently, Dagmar was awarded as one of ArtTour International Magazine’s Top 60 artists of 2020, a well-deserved recognition for such an inspiring artist.

Learn more about Dagmar Wankowski at www.wankowski.com/Dagmar_Wankowski

Follow her on Facebook @dagmar.wankowski
Artonorium
By: Bhavya Pochiraju
Tags: Art Gallery, Painting, Artonorium, Art, Hyderabad

My name is Bhavya Pochiraju and I am an aspiring artist born and raised in Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh India. Creative expression is a big part of my life. I have been exploring visual arts during my free time since I could hold a crayon. I promote my artwork virtually on my official website which is Artonorium.in .

I don’t have any particular ‘style’ but am mostly enthused by realism. I am inspired by nature and color which is reflected in my current body of work. I have traveled across South India, which has influenced my creative style and process.

My work has been shown at the Educational Institutions, Exhibitions, and Communities.

I work in many modes and feel this how to the best approach to art-making. I find it easier to work in acrylics, watercolours, and sketches to achieve blends in a unifying completely… I also enjoy working with Pencil Sketch, Quilling, and Mandalas.

So welcome to my website Artonorium.in and enjoy watching my artwork gallery 🙂
New (but old) Kitchen on a Budget
By: Kiersten Mcdonald
Tags: Home Improvement, Kitchen Interior Design, Home, Painting, Renovations

I am a painting fiend! There is no better way, in my opinion, to update your house than paint. It’s inexpensive (compared to other reno costs), it’s fun (there are so many colours, maybe everything will be pink, maybe everything will be green, maybe everything will be all the colours all at once!), and it’s easy. I’ve moved countless times in my 20s, and each time, I was excited at the thought of painting. I’m a freak, I know.

Ultimately, once we’ve become wealthy billionaires, we plan to open up the wall between our kitchen and dining room. That will be expensive and therefore, years down the line. Until then, we’re committing to the kitchen. Really, like the rest of the house, the kitchen is great. This house was so well-loved for many years; you can sense that. There’s nothing not to like about the kitchen, but to make it even more likeable, we decided to paint it. The original wood cupboards gave the room a dark, dated look, so we went with something light and bright. Depending on who you ask, the kitchen is either green or blue… or was that white and gold/ blue and black.

The total process took about a week and a half and cost $250.

The steps:

1. Take off all the hardware. If it’s brass, don’t wash it. The hardware was original, and the finish had worn off. Not realizing what it was, I put the nobs in a bucket of water with dish soap to clean them. All the knobs came out algae green and almost unsalvageable. Until we looked up the cost of all new hardware, then suddenly, the weird green knobs seemed very salvageable. After a vinegar and baking soda scrub, the green came off, but they looked terrible. In the end, we spray painted them black.

2. Take off all the cabinets and wash them. After The Great Dishsoap Incident with the hardware, I used only warm water. Kitchen cabinets can become grimy so really put some elbow grease into this. It’ll be worth it once you start painting.

3. Prime Prime Prime! We used an excellent primer, which is why the price ended up being a little high. We needed two cans of Bulls-eye primer and painted two coats on everything. We left a full day between each coat so that it could dry and honestly, to take a break.

4. Choose a scrubbable paint. You’re in the kitchen; the sauce is flying, the coffee’s splashing, the grease is greasing. These cupboards will need to be scrubbed, and if that’s not a priority to you…

We chose a blueish green that picks up the light and makes me happy.

All in, with brushes and paint trays from the dollar store, the cost was just under $250. It’s time-consuming but worth it. This is not a project to hire out. It can completely brighten up a space and make it work for you. For some, it will be a hold-over until you can afford a more significant change; for others, this might be what’s needed to get your dream kitchen. My in-laws were quoted $3,000 for a similar project by a professional painter. Save the money. You can do this; anyone at all can do it; the only skill necessary is patience.
Car Wrap Vs Paint — Which is the Most Efficient and Best Value for Money?
By: Daniel Kouznetsov
Tags: Wrapping, Vinyl, Car Paint Protection Film, Car Paint Protection, Painting

What do we do when it comes to car wrap vs paint? This is a very common question many of us may face at a certain time in our car ownership. Maybe you feel like it's time to update the vehicle’s look with the color and modifications? Or maybe you feel it’s time to get that shell fixed and prepped for your next build! Regardless of your situation, car wrap vs paint is a common question many of us will ask, and a very controversial one.

Each will have its benefits, disadvantages, and result. But not many people will have the money to do both if one doesn’t turn out to be as good as the other option. It can be a very difficult decision to make, with many opinions available everywhere backing one or the other. However, most of these opinions are coming from either a painting shop or a wrapping shop and usually are very one-sided.

Here, I own neither, and will not be giving my opinion. Instead, I’ll provide you, with the correct and most informative information possible for you to make the best choice for your pride and joy! If you find yourself in this position and not sure what to do, below I have explanations as to what each option is, the process of application, and the positives and negatives of each. So read on, and hopefully, by the end, you will have made up your mind!

**Just so you know, there are some affiliate links in this post that I may receive a commission from. Thank you if you use my links, as it will help me greatly and I’d really appreciate it!**

Car Wrapping

What is it?

Effectively, a car wrap is a vinyl wrap or film that is heated, stretched, and applied to the vehicle panels. The vinyl wrap can be offered in many different colors, textures, sizes, and effects. It can even come as a clear vinyl if you want to display the paint underneath but still want some protection. You can layer different colored types of vinyl to bring out an awesome color effect on the surface! Vinyl wrap can also be cut to size and applied to any surface required, be it the exterior or interior. An awesome cheap modification that will transform the look of your vehicle!

Here’s an example of my favorite vinyl wrap:

VViViD+ Matte Metallic Purple Vinyl Wrap

VVIVID+ is Vvivid’s highest grade material which offers unbeatable scratch resistance, reliability, and ease of install.
Endorphins On A Canvas
By: Shreya Sarda
Tags: Creativity, Inspiration, Art, Painting, Wellbeing

Being an artist, I’ve always found a form of comfort behind my canvas. Be it the most dull of days, I was able to turn that around by spending some time painting or even doodling. One such day I happened to have a passing thought about what changes occur in my brain while creating something and why does it uplift my mood. It was just one of those thoughts that went by and was forgotten about soon enough.

After a few months I began teaching art to little kids, I started interacting with children of all ages and it was a whole new experience. I wanted to understand and get to know more in order to help me engage them better during our classes. I then decided to send out a questionnaire to all the children with a bunch of questions related to their hobbies, lifestyle and daily routine. After a few weeks I was able to gather all the responses and the answer to the very last question left me amazed. The last question was “Why do you like to draw or paint?”, almost every response to that question was either it makes me happy or I feel good. This made me ponder on the co-relation of our brains and creativity, which did not only apply to me but even to children. Without being aware of what triggers their emotional changes they were still able to respond to the question by acknowledging their feeling. Furthermore, I was able to notice a feeling of accomplishment in the children towards the end of every art class. This visual creative expression seemed to be like the last piece of a big puzzle.

I was so curious and I just had to read more about the science and theories behind the link between creativity, our bodies and minds. I came across various articles that spoke about the link between creativity and the release of endorphins, a feel-good hormone in the body and thereby reducing cortisol, a stress hormone. You would be surprised to know that just a few minutes a day of a creative activity could drastically elevate your mood.

I strongly believe engaging in any form of creative work is essential for people of all ages to help them relax, build self esteem and overall create a healthy and positive state of mind.
Top 50 Most Expensive Paintings In The World pdf - GyAAnigk
Tags: Gk Updates, Gk In Hindi, Painting, General Knowledge

Ques :- विश्व के 🔝 5 गायब हुए पेंटिंग कौन-कौन से हैं?

Ans :- The Just Judges by Jan Van Eyck

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt

Le Pigeon Aux Petits Pois by Pablo Picasso

The Concert by Johannes Vermeer

Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Vincent Desiderio — A Realist Painter Creating Thought-Provoking Art
Tags: Artist, Contemporary Art, Realism, Art, Painting

Being a good realist painter doesn’t only mean to reflect reality in the most realistically accurate manner. There is something bigger behind the paintings demonstrating the bare reality. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be a need for such a prolific art movement as Realism. What, though, captivates people’s minds when they see realistic paintings is the idea of the painter’s authenticity and originality, which almost always goes hand in hand with concrete reality.

Today, we want to dedicate our blog post to Vincent Desiderio, a skillful master of realism, whose thought-provoking paintings will tell you a story from the artist’s life and show you how vague the line between reality and art is.

Vincent Desiderio — a realist painter creating thought-provoking art

Vincent Desiderio is an award-winning American painter working in realism. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art and History from Haverford College. After that, the talented realist painter attended the Academia di Belle Arti in Florence and later studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

As of today, Vincent Desiderio’s paintings and drawings are in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Apart from that, Vincent Desiderio has received lots of prestigious awards, from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant to Studio Award from the Institute for Art and Urban Resources at MoMa PS1.

Vincent Desiderio is best known for his realistic paintings that masterfully combine classical elements with contemporary straightforwardness. Through his works, the prominent realist painter narrates a story, the plot of which is often based on the personal life and tragedy of the artist.

Besides, you need to focus on how the painter plays with the warmth of color and the depth of shadow, which might give you a better understanding of the realist master’s genius. You just should take a peek into the magnetic world of art by Vincent Desiderio!
Linseed On Linen
By: Holly Brians Ragusa
Tags: Art Lovers, Museums, Van Gogh, Art, Painting

Stopped cold around a corner

Framed, I was a youth seeking sight

No vented air

Chilled my soul frozen

Captured by canvas and carrier

Curated

Love at first sight for linseed spread on linen

Old truths spoken across time

A language I long to speak

Favored forever this lavish heaping of oil

Shaped into form

Face to face with a master I stand

Knowing knives never spared the lives living

Stretched on his mind on his canvas

Shadowed heavy with light was he

Pigment ground, bound to weigh timeless

Laden bark flanks unknown faces

Rooted to trees are we

Dressed dense in flora

Connected though we cannot see to know

Head tilts toward a shoulder trusted

Trunked tall, suited for support

The forest anomaly seen through the trees

Symmetry in groves standing Two

Alone

Removed from apart

In the undergrowth

#CincinnatiArtMuseum #VanGogh #poetry
Decoupage on Acrylic pour painting ~ Christmas Diy ~ Christmas Gift ideas ~ #StayCreative
By: Fiona Art
Tags: Christmas, Acrylic, Art, Painting, Gifts

In this video I combine two techniques; Decoupage and Acrylic pour. On dried acrylic pour painting I added deer motive on paper napkin with PVA glue and water mixture and varnished it with gloss varnish. I think that this is unique and beautiful idea for Christmas gifts.

COLOURS for pour painting:

- Boesner titanium white with Vallejo polyurethane satin varnish and my pouring medium

- Arties colours alizarian violet

- Amsterdam permanent blue violet

- Vellejo magenta

- Amsterdam reflex rose

- Pebeo iridescent precious gold

- CA: 3 parts Australian floetrol mixed with 1 part Amsterdam oxide black

MATERIAL:

- Acrylic pour painting

- Paper napkin

- Pva glue mixed with water

- Brush

Decoupage on Acrylic pour painting ~ Christmas Diy

Please understand that I am in no way responsible for the way you use your paint and mediums. Follow all safety instructions of the manufacturers, I can not be held liable.

Be careful and use the proper materials for your safety.

You can’t use any content on my channel, unless I give you a permission!
Enter the Art
By: Merete Sanderhoff
Tags: Coding, Remix, Hacking, Smkopen, Painting

A few months ago, SMK approached me with the task of helping them explore new ways for guests to experience and establish connections with the paintings from the SMK collection. They wanted to use new digital tools to extend and transform the interface or connection between the visitor and the artworks, and create fun and/or beautiful ways for people to picture themselves in the art. After exploring a few different ideas I focused on how to allow people to combine photos of themselves with a handful of iconic paintings. Going beyond just swapping faces, I imagined how people could take photos of themselves and place their bodies wherever they wanted to inside an original art piece. However, copying elements from photos and pasting them onto a painting without having the end result look like a collage of unrelated separate elements is a challenging task. A bit of research led me to a scientific paper by researchers from Cornell University and Adobe Research who presented a technique called Deep Painterly Harmonization. Their approach allows you to use segmented cutouts of faces and bodies and seamlessly merge these onto paintings as though they had appeared there in the original painting.

In order to allow people to see themselves painted onto the pictures of SMK, I imagined a website experience that gives visitors a lot of creative freedom. Because of COVID-19, it also made sense to make something people could experience from their own home, without necessarily visiting the physical museum. The proposed user flow was as follows:

1) A person starts out by capturing or uploading a picture of themselves from their computer or mobile phone.

SMK’s director Mikkel Bogh photographed in the museum’s Sculpture Street.

2) A machine learning algorithm (like BodyPix directly in the browser or via Person Segmentation from RunwayML server side) performs segmentation and creates a mask containing only the part of the picture where the person appears.

Mikkel ’s picture has been segmented.

3) The person positions the isolated image of themselves anywhere on top of a classic painting from the SMK collection.
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Tags: Modular Kitchen, Interior Design, Local Services, Packers And Movers, Painting

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Unpainted Portraits
By: Aspen Blue
Tags: Existentialism, Self-awareness, Poetry, Art, Painting

Have you ever felt

all the careful colours fading

from a sunset landscape?

Bucolic inklings leaking

tender once was

from each expectant swale

down rivulets and rills

into a swirling ravine

of bitter unseen

Noticed the gentle ebb of pigments

watered down and wasted

brushing memories away?

The shifting lights of duality

stripping grace

elegantly from a portrait face

leaving sallow majesty

for a life replaced

Have you perceived

strokes of genius revoked

from the canvases of life?

Watched transfixed in the patient spaces

as life ran

technicolor to sepia to silvertone

to little more

than soldiered grey

When you are unpainted

in the muffled twilight moments

stand among the shadows

softly, mottled

remembering the outlines we once drew

retouching

each other’s art

© Aspen Blue 2020
How to Pack Framed Paintings for Shipping?
By: Ilya Kushnirskiy, Fine Art Shippers
Tags: Packing, Shipping, Packaging, Packers And Movers, Painting

Shipping any item is risky. Shipping fine art is even riskier, especially if you are shipping something with glass. Framed paintings, prints, photographs, and other artworks are common items that are destroyed or depreciated through the shipping process due to damage. For this reason, it is of utmost importance that you work with only specialized shippers with years of experience in transporting framed art and other delicate items. However, if for any reason, you are going to handle the shipping on your own, make sure you know how to pack framed paintings so that every piece arrives at the destination intact.

How to Pack Framed Paintings for Shipping?

To pack framed paintings properly, you should start with protecting the glass. You need to cover it with a special film or painter’s tape the way we did in the photo. Feel free to apply a double layer of painter’s tape to ensure that the pieces will remain together if the glass shatters or cracks in transit. Thus, you will protect the painting’s surface from possible damage in case of an accident.

When it is done, wrap the painting in several layers of bubble wrap and strengthen the package from all sides with the sheets of cardboard. Secure everything with packing tape. This will add more protection to the artwork while it is in transit.

Choose a shipping container depending on your painting’s size, fragility, and value. Smaller works can be shipped in durable cardboard boxes; larger pieces require custom-built wooden crates. If you ship multiple paintings of the same size, you can pack them in one crate reinforced with foam inside like the one in the photo.

Now that you know how to pack framed paintings properly, the chances are high that you will ship them safely. However, it is still recommended that you opt for professional art packing and crating services and hire specialized art shippers for this job.
How to participate in TALWEL’s Painting Exhibition
By: Mounikesh Thota
Tags: Artist, Art, Painting

Hello From TALWEL ,

TALWEL is A tailor made platform where you can showcase your talent and sell them

you can also participate in various competitions win certificates and exciting prizes

This time TALWEL is coming up with Painting Exhibition where you can post any of your fascinating painting art you have done

To Participate in the competition all you need to do is

go to

https://talwel.com

click on participate now Button you will be redirected to this competitions page

click on this link

click on “ TALWEL present’s Painting Exhibition” link

click on “click to participate button”

Where as to participate in the competition all you need to do is take a paper

write

TALWEL your name

Eg:TALWEL Mounikesh

and take a snap along with your ART

and post it as a pic in the competition

In “all submissions” you can see your’s as well as all the other’s who have participated in this competition/exhibition

you can vote yourself / other’s

you can share this among your friends

by clicking on the share icon

Top Three would be declared based on the votes

Every user get’s a participation certificate

and top three winner’s would get a authorized badge from TALWEL

ALL THE VERY BEST

— TALWEL
CONCEPTS & MEANINGS BEHIND THE PAINTING: CHEVEREUL’S PENDULUM
By: Anthony J Parké
Tags: Psychology, Dark, Symbolism, Art, Painting

CONCEPTS & MEANINGS BEHIND THE PAINTING: CHEVEREUL’S PENDULUM

Micro Musings No.6 / Anthony J. Parké

CHEVEREUL’S PENDULUM/ Oil & Acylic

Helical Stairs & Pandora

The helical staircase represents her transformational path. At the zenith of the staircase sits a vessel with its lid open. This references the myth of Pandora and her infamous jar containing all manner of misery and evil. Curiosity gets the better of Pandora and the evils of the world are released. However, the lid is quickly closed such that Hope alone remains in the jar. In this instance, our protagonist’s jar remains open, suggesting her task is a hopeless one.

Chevereul’s Pendulum

In one hand she holds a swinging pendant. It is similar to the pendant in Polanski’s, Rosemarys Baby. Rosemary is presented with a silver filigree ball pendant containing a piece of strong smelling tannis root. As a result, her path to a demonic sexual liaison is malevolently prepared for her by those in league with the devil. The pendant additionally references ‘Chevereul’s pendulum’ (named after the 19th century French chemist, Michel Eugène Chevreul). The diagram below the swinging pendulum delineates this reference. Chevereul’s pendulum reveals the holder’s innermost thoughts as a result of unconscious muscular movements made by the respondent. What it reveals about our protagonist remains a secret.

Naked forms

The convoluted naked forms are representative of the evils released from the jar. The writhing bodies reference the sin of carnality. She pulls aside the red labia curtain, with an expression of guilt, as we, the voyeurs, witness her yet-to-be-realised sexual desires.

Foul Odours & Purification

To her right are a mixture of silver vessels which act as her potential salvation. some are thuribles which have an ecclesiastical use. It is employed in various spiritual or ceremonial traditions, including the practice of ceremonial magic. There are two symbolic purposes: the rising smoke of the incense symbolises the prayers of the faithful rising to heaven (purity), and the incense as used to create a “sweet smell” to conceal the stench of our protagonist’s sinful dalliance. Another vessel is the vinaigrette from the 18th century, again used for masking foul odours from raw sewage and rotting detritus. The pomander, from French pomme d’ambre (apple of amber), is a ball made for perfumes, such as ambergris, musk, or civet. The pomander was worn as a protection against infection in times of pestilence, or merely as an object to mask bad odours. They were hung from a neck-chain and contained several partitions for different perfumes. All of these vessels act as a metaphorical means of purifying or negating the heavy burdensome stench of sinful carnality seducing our protagonist , ultimately hauling her into a world of moral disintegration.

Anthony Parké

www.parkepaintings.com
Acrylic SWIPE over STRAIGHT POUR ~ Acrylic pour painting ~ Fluid art ~ #StayCreative
By: Fiona Art
Tags: YouTube, Acrylic, Video, Art, Painting

I used up some paints that I have left from previous pours in a straight pour and did some swipes and end up with an interesting painting with a snake and a dragon :D

TECHNIQUE: Straight pour, Card swipe

COLOURS:

- Amsterdam azo yellow middle

- Amsterdam azo orange

- Amsterdam payrolle red

- Amsterdam expert series permanent violet

- Amsterdam phthalo blue

- Amsterdam turquoise blue

- Amsterdam phthalo green

- Boesner titanium white with Vallejo polyurethane satin varnish and my pouring medium

- CA for the swipes is Amsterdam oxide black mixed with Australian floetrol

Please understand that I am in no way responsible for the way you use your paint and mediums. Follow all safety instructions of the manufacturers, I can not be held liable.

Be careful and use the proper materials for your safety.

You can’t use any content on my channel, unless I give you a permission!
In the year 2021
By: Amanda Suarez
Tags: Gardening, Lockdown, Covid 19, Art, Painting

In the year 2021,

It became illegal to garden

Because it was too dangerous

To be outside.

People were no longer allowed out

unless they were engaged in an essential activity, like buying goods with government checks from businesses still considered essential, like Walmart, or Shoprite.

So people began painting, writing, and singing about flowers and their love for the outside.

They drew, painted, and created odes, to their love of the world,

They were banned from.

In 2021, they finally realized,

They were being banned from participation in the world,

because the world was not for them anymore.

It had been bought by the

ELITE

Who were hypochondriacs, who hated people

So in order for them to enjoy what they purchased

We must all, GET OUT.

Please don’t let this happen.
Amongst The Colors
By: Suntonu Bhadra
Tags: Poem, Colors, Attraction, Poetry, Painting

Vivid and vibrant

shades around, drawn onto spirited submission

to touch the imaginary into living solitude

sketches and paints

portraying the dreams and emotions,

happiness and betrayal,

untold tales

spoken slangs

heartbroken chapters

or the growing empathy inside

and you, amongst them

are the living passage

tuning words into emulsion

brushstrokes depicting your emotions and joys

You are the sketch and the sketcher,

the paint and the painter, the all in the all, avatar within one.

Footnote: I might be wrong in interpreting the concept, but I wrote these words just after seeing the title picture above. Poets can’t be wrong, I guess, as a single image can draw different aspects and thoughts, as our minds are diverse and distinct in nature.
Let it flow ~ Acrylic pour painting ~ Fluid art ~ Volcano pour
By: Fiona Art
Tags: Flow, Videos, Acrylic, Art, Painting

For this acrylic pour painting I used new toy; Flower Pour Cup, Volcano Flow With Center Handle Spout.

It created beautiful design, but I stretch it too much… So next time less paint and less stretching.

Let it flow

COLOURS: — Amsterdam oxide black — Amsterdam titanium white — Amsterdam carmine — Pebeo iridescent precious gold

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Vincent Desiderio — The Master of Realism and Storytelling
By: Ilya Kushnirskiy, Fine Art Shippers
Tags: Artist, Fine Art, Realism, Art, Painting

Fine Art Shippers has been providing fine art shipping services since 1995. Over these years, we have worked with many notable artists, helping them pack, ship, and install a whole range of different artworks. This blog post is dedicated to one of them, the amazing American artist Vincent Desiderio, who is a true master of realism and storytelling.

Vincent Desiderio — The Master of Realism and Storytelling

Vincent Desiderio was born in 1955 in Philadelphia, PA. He studied Fine Art and Art History at Haverford College, the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Throughout his career, Vincent Desiderio has received numerous painting awards and grants, including the Purchase Prize from the Everson Museum of Art, the Rome Grant from the Creative Artists Network, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and the Painting Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. He is also the first American painter to be awarded the Grand Prize of S.A.S. Prince Ranier III at the Contemporary Art Show in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

Today, Vincent Desiderio is rightfully called the master of realism and storytelling. His incredible works perfectly combine classical art with modernist elements, which makes them prominent in both appearance and nature. Desiderio’s paintings are in many private and public collections worldwide, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Met and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and Museo Botero in Bogota. They have also appeared in numerous publications and become an inspiration for other talented artists and musicians. For example, Kanye West’s 2016 controversial music video for “Famous” was inspired by Vincent Desiderio’s painting “Sleep.”

At Fine Art Shippers, we are happy and proud to be serving Vincent Desiderio, a true master of realism, whose paintings won’t leave anyone indifferent because they tell emotional stories inspired by the artist’s own life and modern-day realities.
Watercolour Stories — Island Lagoon
By: Dean Gonsalves
Tags: Stories, Abstract Art, Watercolor Painting, Seascape, Painting

Island lagoon

The islands in the tropics are full of mystery, its flora rich with diversity. This small islet lays snuggled in a quiet lagoon where the only change is the ebb and flow of tides.

I let the water flow loosely over the paper and then dabbed-in the colour. And then coaxing the watery colour to form the island, gently pulling out the paint to define the palm trees over the larger surrounding vegetation, defining the outline of the island
Careful Titles and Triumphant Colors : Notes on Paul Klee
By: Kerry Dooley Young
Tags: Art, Painting, History

Klee spent much of his career teaching at Germany’s influential Bauhaus school, first in Weimar (1921–26) and then in Dessau (1926–31). By 1930, Klee’s work caught the attention of Alfred H. Barr Jr., the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art. After seeing Klee’s paintings in Europe, Barr gave Klee what may have been the first one-person show of a living European painter at the then newly opened MOMA.

The attention from MOMA’s Barr must have been a boost for him. Klee was an artist whose work didn’t fit neatly into popular styles of painting, wrote Grace Glueck in the New York Times in 2006.

“Although by the 20’s in Europe Klee was mentionable in the same breath with Picasso and Matisse, his work really stood apart from big-time modernism. For one, it was hard to categorize, with its teasing mix of Surrealist, Expresionist, Art Brut and, well, Klee-like elements,” Glueck wrote. “And the small, sometimes postcard-size creations, with their childlike drawing, mysterious symbols and ethereal fantasies often puzzled viewers, even those familiar with the modernist vocabulary.”

The painting below, for example, refers to parties and little theatrical performances that were a regular feature of student life at the Bauhaus. Burlesque and mechanical elements were common themes in these entertainments.
Painting For Me
Tags: Writer, Writing, Art, Painting, Post

Before the era of digitization, painting was a way to perpetuate a scene, portray someone’s beauty or to immortalize a site. Moreover, it was considered as a sign of ‘worship’ because it comprises the act of creativity in it.

Undoubtedly, painting is a major part of art. It works as an exclusive language. A canvas works as a medium through which we can express without having to speak.

First and foremost, painting, to me, is therapy. It provides me with mental rest. Painting, not only enhances my mood, but also generates happiness and relaxes my anxieties. Holding a brush in my hand gives me the essence of potential. The variety of colors that are in front of me gives me the sense of the countless opportunities this world has to offer.

Secondly, the empty canvas gives me the impression of the whole life I have in front of me. Along with that, it helps me identify myself and to express my capabilities. Besides, I believe that choosing the colors also helps me strengthen the power of decisiveness. Also, especially, it helps me boost my imagination and think of things that are seemingly impossible.

Thirdly, I feel that painting provides me with pleasurable visualization and relaxation. It enhances my emotional and spiritual abilities as well. When I sit to paint, without a doubt, I feel like I am in another dimension; a dimension where nothing else matters. Its just me, the colors, a brush, and an empty canvas. It feels like as if the canvas is speaking to me. In spite of the canvas being empty, it utters a whole lot to me.

Altogether, sitting in front of a canvas, makes me believe that there is whole lot of chances in life. The colors give me the sense of choices. The brushes give me the certainty of potential. When I paint, it absolutely gives me a sense of beauty. Last but not the least, painting is a part of me.
View on Haarlem without bleach fields, Bloemendaal, North Holland, Winter ’20
By: Martijn Droger
Tags: Nederland, Fine Art Photography, Martijn Droger, Photography, Painting

Many times I went to Bloemendaal to try and make a work like the famous painting ‘Gezicht op Haarlem met bleekvelden’ by Jacob van Ruisdael. Many times the conditions were not right. But, one time, after rain, for a few seconds, right before the sky turned blue, I found wat I was looking for. Light is falling on the fields and trees in the front, and on the city of Haarlem in the back. Big clouds, moving in from the direction of the sea, fill the sky.The year 1675 and 2020. Same spot, same skies, same light — M.D.

Dutch light,

fleeting beauty. Flat horizons. Wide cloudy skies. Spots of light in the landscape. The light in the Netherlands has something special due to the many water in the landscape that reflects light towards the sky. I found a way to capture the beauty of this light in a new way. Traveling across my home country, I try to capture land, light and sky in perfect coherence, using multiple photographs for one scene. Engaged in a daily battle, to be at the right place at the right time, I captured unique scenes of the famous Dutch light.

Made,

out of multiple photographs, my artworks show the beauty of Dutch light and sky in a unique way. All artworks show large scenes, many details, and often the true grandeur of the sky. Every work has a unique size and specific sharpness. The photographs are made with a combination of digital and analog photo gear and all works show realistic and clear colors. The biggest challenge for creating a unique work is being at the right place at the right time. Other than the landscape, the clouds and lights are always different. Following daily weather developments, searching for locations, countless attempts, being lucky, and hours of editing are all part of the creation process.

Thank you,

for being my audience.
Thank You Artists
By: Amy Pierovich
Tags: Mystery, Poetry, Art, Photography, Painting

Thank You Artists

Photo by Simon Champagne on Unsplash

My thanks to all you artists,

your art speaks to me,

ignites a spark,

stirs my soul,

invites

— a different way of seeing, understanding.

You take the mundane,

shed new light,

upon the plane of being,

in this life.

Jorg,

you painted “Baltic Sea” at evening,

the German Bight,

a brackish inland sea,

fair and white.

Your clouds they seem to shift and change,

above two moored boats

— an endless horizon,

of shimmering light,

reflecting pink and blue and white.

Luli,

you sent me the photograph, taken circa 1942,

“Bethany Holding Chicken,”

chicken clutched tight,

inside precious little arms.

American photographer, Nell Dorr,

who took this powerful image said,

“throw off your fears and inhibitions,

and bathe in the sea.”

Nell Dorr leaves me wanting,

to know more,

about young Bethany,

this child of love and tenderness.

Johann,

you painted “Connemara, Ring of Kerry,”

with its blanket bogs,

a glimpse of western Ireland now known to me,

soft green lichen, daffodils, an inlet of the sea.

Dramatic blue sky above,

craggy rocks below,

nature pure, allures, invites,

to this land of myth and sea.

Christine,

you painted “The Bridges Covered” at Strasbourg, France,

Alsace-Lorraine,

construction began in 1230,

at the western end of “Grande Ile” or “Large Island.”

Soft reflections glisten,

upon placid river waters;

bridge off-center, tower to the right,

elegant, old history,

magical, mystery.

Thank you all of you artists,

you make the whole world bright.
DREAM ~ Acrylic STRAIGHT POUR & CARD SWIPE ~ Fluid art ~ #StayCreative
By: Fiona Art
Tags: Dreams, Videos, Acrylic, Art, Painting

Hello from sLOVEnia!

For this Acrylic Straight pour with Card swipe I used my mixture of white and polyurethane varnish again because I wanted this dreamy — cloudy look with some pearl cells.

TECHNIQUE: Straight pour, Card swipe

COLOURS:

- Pebeo iridescent precious gold

- Golden Payne’s grey

- Artist’s loft metallic cobalt blue

- Amsterdam payrolle red

- Boesner titanium white with Vallejo polyurethane satin varnish and my pouring medium

- CA for the swipes is Amsterdam oxide black mixed with Australian floetrol

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DREAM

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Albert Bitran — Lirical Abstraction
By: Exposition Art Blog
Tags: Fine Art, Contemporary Art, Abstract Art, Art, Painting

“Born in Instanbul, Albert Bitran studied at the Collège Saint-Michel there where he passed the French and Turkish Baccalauréats….However, leaving geometric abstraction, Bitran turned towards an intellectual form of painting which he would continue to the end of his life. He spent long periods of time in the south of France and his first studies are related to landscape, a theme he developed until Naissance d’un Paysage, a large collage of 1956 that was included in the exhibition “L’Envolée Lyrique3” at the Musée du Luxembourg in 2006.”

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