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    Convert your high-quality digital photos into low-res Polaroids   October 14th, 2009 Photographs. What started out way back when as pictures on tin or glass plates had progressed through the years to the point where there's actually noting behind the lens now—no plates, no film, just an electronic image sensor. Makes for great pictures, but it does lose a ...

You can have the most technically perfect drawig, and use the purest of colors, but you will not make a good painting if the tonal values are all wrong. You must learn about tonal values regardless of what style you are painting. Tonal values go from light to dark. But in color you have to familierize yourself othe hues of the ...

  Look in the Sky ‘It’s Science, It’s physics, no It’s ART’     I have been told by galleries that they frequently get the same two comments from people viewing my work.  First, they want to know, “How does a PhD in physics become an artist?” and second, “How does he get things to look so realistic?”   The answers to ...

Is the color rich and saturated? Or does it look thin when you brush it out? Is the paint smooth or noticeably gritty? Gritty is different from granulating. Is the binder well-mixed into the paint, or does it ooze sticky or oily goop? It may have been sitting on the shelf too long or may be a poorly made paint. ...

Creating works of art can be much easier with the help of a colour wheel. With this simple piece of equipment, you can tell what colours mix together to make secondary colours and decide what colours look best with other colours on your canvas. It takes just a few minutes to understand the fundamentals of how to use a colour wheel ...

The color wheel shows the relationship of colors. There are three primary colors (red, blue, yellow), three secondary colors which are the result of mixing primary colors (purple, orange, green) and the tertiary colors which are a primary color mixed with a secondary color such as red-orange, yellow-green and blue-violet. When they colors are mixed with pure colors white or black ...

Home decorating projects are enhanced by the proper use of colours. Here is a how-to guide for using colour! Psychology of Colour When deciding on colours it's important to know what effect that color will have on your moods. Loving a colour and living with it are two different things. Learn what your favorite colours can do to you! The biggest ...

Thanks to Igor Asselbergs, here is a great graphic design or typography technique. It is a great way to communicate with the public while grabbing their attention to the content. I like the black and white example and how the type is slightly over lapped. Wow! the color one is really tricky. It makes my eyes hurt to look at it. ...

http://www.wetcanvas.com/ArtSchool/Color/ColorTheory/ 16 Lessons in Color Theory

One of the fun things about colors is that it somehow always seems to reflect the leading view of a certain age or culture. Take the ancient Greek view on color... Aristotle described color as a quality of material. The surface of any kind of material releases small particles (atoms). The shape of the particles is determined by the kind of ...

When I Googled "favourite color" I came up with 1,930,000 hits. The favourite color is apparently a favourite subject. Trouble is: there's no such thing as a favourite color. At least not in the form of a pot of paint or a color swatch. First: it is impossible for the human eye to consistently identify a specific color. In other words: ...