Posts Tagged ‘medium’

Tips on Molding Chocolate Sculpture

Posted in Sculpture

Molding chocolate sculpture is a fun medium to work in (and tastes great too). Here are some tips to help you get started with molding chocolate sculpture.

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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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Tricks on Oil Painting Palette

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These are more oil painting palette tips you can implement whilst handling oil paints.

The purpose of arranging the colors on your palette in a systematic way is to save you time.

There should be no fumbling around your palette to find a color, for all your attention should be concentrated on painting the subject before you.

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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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