Posts Tagged ‘course’

Tips on Quick Polymer Clay Sculpting

Posted in Sculpture

Here are some tips that might be useful for sculpting polymer clay.

1: Keep a wet washcloth or wet wipes (baby wipes) on hand to keep you hands clean while sculpting. Any little piece of dirt of pet hair your hands pick up will stick to your sculpt.

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Drying Oil Paintings

Posted in Painting

You have to prepare time for drying. Of course!

Oil painting is a slow drying paint, which consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, which is most commonly linseed oil. To change the viscosity of the paint a solvent like turpentine or white spirit and varnish can be added to increase the glossiness of the dried film.

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Painting VS Sculpture

Posted in Painting

There is centuries debate went on over which was a “nobler” art: painting or sculpture?

The painters said they had to invent everything and the sculptor practically nothing. His material, stone, was already a finished work of nature—beautiful, imposing. Someone pretty sophistically even said the only thing the sculptor had to do was remove the stone from a figure that was already in the block.

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The Three Dimensional Impasto

Posted in Painting


What is Impasto?

The ‘Impasto’ refers to a painting technique, in which thick textured paint is applied on canvas to get a three dimensional appearance of the picture being created.

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