Think about what type of landscape you'd like to paint. Do you want to include the ocean, a mountain, or a field? Decide what season you'd like to paint and consider what type of light your landscape will have. For example, if you're painting an afternoon scene, the light might be casting long shadows. To give you some ideas, you might want to paint a bright spring scene of a mountain with pine trees in the foreground. You could also paint a darker landscape of the ocean at sunset with deep streaks across the sky. If you don't have an easel or you're painting a small canvas, you can prop the canvas against something sturdy or lay it flat on your work surface. Then, get out a paint palette and squeeze a coin-sized amount of each color of oil paint that you want to use. Improvise if you don't have a classic artist's palette. Use a smooth piece of cardboard, a flat glass platter, a thin plank of wood, or a plastic container lid. Set the canvas in a well-ventilated room and leave it to dry completely. This should take 1 to 2 days depending on your climate. Then, you can begin to paint the sky on your canvas. To ventilate the room, run a fan or open a window. Remember to clean your paintbrushes and cover the paint palette tightly to prevent them from drying out.
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One-sentence summary -- Select the subject for your painting. Set your canvas on an easel and squeeze oil paints onto a palette. Dry the toned canvas at room temperature for 1 to 2 days.

Q: By 7 months old, typical babies express happiness and smile. A baby's first smile often occurs even before 3 months. If a baby doesn't follow objects with its eyes by 3 months, this could be a very early indicator of autism. Observe their other facial expressions. By 9 months old, babies communicate with others by displaying certain expressions like grimacing, pouting and grinning to fit their mood. Babies that develop typically will babble by the time they are 7 months old. The noise might not make any sense. It is common for babies to make repetitive sounds, but autistic babies will make different sounds and rhythms. By seven months, non-autistic children are able to laugh and make squealing sounds. Some autistic children experience a delay in speaking, or never learn to speak at all. Around 15-20% of autistic people never speak, although this does not mean they do not communicate. By one year, non-autistic children are able to say single words such as "Mama" and "Dada". By age 2, most children are able to string words together. A typical 2-year-old should have a vocabulary of more than 15 words. An autistic child might not respond to their own name or avoid play with others. By 7 months, a typical child responds to simple games like peekaboo. A non-autistic child responds to its own name at about one year old. By 18 months, a typical child will start to play "pretend" games, such as pretend feeding a baby doll. Autistic children tend not to play pretend, and may appear unimaginative to onlookers. By age two, non-autistic children will imitate your words and actions. Pay attention to speech regression. Some infants meet their milestones and then lose skills at an older age. Babies will reach for objects typically by 7 months of age. Place a toy out of your child's reach to see if he will reach for it. Babies as young as 7 months old will try to attract your attention with movements. Autistic children may be less active. By 6 months old, children should turn their head towards sounds they hear. If your child does not do this they may have a hearing problem, or early symptoms of autism. Many babies start waving bye-bye and pointing to objects they want by the time they are 12 months old. If your child has not started to walk or crawl by 12 months, this is a very serious developmental disability. By age 1, most babies will start to use gestures such as shaking their head to say "no". If your child cannot walk by age 2, you should definitely have them evaluated by a doctor for autism and other disabilities. Stimming serves a variety of purposes: from self-calming to expressing emotions. If your young child waves their hands, rocks their body, or spins in circles constantly, this is a likely sign of autism.
A: Note your baby's facial expression. Notice when babbling begins. Consider when your child begins speaking. Check your child's response to language and play. Examine your child's movements. Look for stimming.

Article: Horror movies and thrillers need to be your homework, because editing is finally the place where you get to create the real suspense. You could spend years studying editing, but a quick master-class of your favorite movies will do. For each scene, pull out a notepad and write down: The length of cuts. Do they use long, slow shots, short and quick cuts, or a combination of both? When do they use each? How long is the scene, and at what point does each key event happen. You'll be surprised how similar this is in many movies. What are the music and sound cues? When do they come in, rise, and fall away? What is the lighting like? How does color, tone, and brightness affect the mood of the scene? Pay attention to the length of the cuts, and how the juxtapose against each other. While this rule isn't hard and fast, longer cuts tend to build dread and suspense, with shorter cuts breeding action, excitement, and confusion. This is a good way to play with tension and release -- a key to good suspense. Watch how some movies "fake" the release, making you expect a scare, but actually providing nothing terrible (like a cat jumping out). This puts your audience on edge without blowing the big scare. Remember -- suspense comes from worrying about what is going to happen next, or seeing what is happening and being unable to stop it. Note how your favorite movies build this horror. Check the climactic basement scene near the end of The Silence of the Lambs for a master course in long takes punctuated by quick bursts of action. Sound is actually one of the best, if not the best, way to create tension and suspense. Why? Because it hints at things the viewer can't see, increasing worry, confusion, and dread. From floorboard creaks to the whistling of the wind, chirping crickets to sudden, heart-stopping silence, you can mine a lot more tension out of subtle sounds than most movie viewers ever realize. You can find thousands of free sound effects online with a quick search. For serious movies, consider paying for access to a professional sound bank. Silence is key to suspense, especially when broken by a nerve-clenching noise like a sharpening blade, slowly opening door, or sudden breath or whisper. You can find hundreds of copyright-free suspense songs on the internet, generally using violins, piano, and ambient noises to build quiet dread. When using music, try to be sparing -- you want your scares to come from visual and sound design, using the music as a final touch to pull it together. Keep it in the background, barely perceptible, to subtly impact your audience without pulling their attention from the scene. No Country for Old Men famously used no music at all, which created its own unique, silent suspense.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Watch as many suspenseful scenes as you can get your hands on. Use the length of each shot to build, and then release, tension. Spend as much time on sound design as visual cuts. Cue up the suspenseful music, letting it build slowly throughout the scene.