http://modern-paintings.blog.hubickart.com Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:06:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://modern-paintings.blog.hubickart.com/how-to-paint-discusion-on-painting-life-and-art-part-1/ http://modern-paintings.blog.hubickart.com/defining-art-from-form/ http://modern-paintings.blog.hubickart.com/getting-a-feel-for-oil-paint/ http://modern-paintings.blog.hubickart.com/launching-your-oil-painting-career/ http://modern-paintings.blog.hubickart.com/using-watercolor-instead-of-oil/ http://modern-paintings.blog.hubickart.com/seeing-1000-items-and-creating-one-picture/ http://modern-paintings.blog.hubickart.com/diving-into-drawing/ One of the advantages of watercolor painting is that it calls for little in the way of equipment. We shall consider briefly the materials needed before you can start to work. Brushes Brushes are of great importance. Cheap ones on the whole are of doubtful value. As one needs but few brushes, he should buy the best. Those of red sable hair are generally so considered. The round, sharply pointed type is probably the most popular, but flat square ones can also be useful at times. A rectangular space such as a door or window shutter, for instance, can often be painted using a stroke of a flat, sable brush about three-fourths of an inch wide. One generally needs about three round red sable brushes - small, medium and large. For any given piece of work, it is best to use the largest size brush practical. Small brushes require too frequent dipping and can lead one into finicky ways. For bold sketching (such as outdoor work) and for laying large washes (as on skies and backgrounds), so big a brush is needed that one sometimes feels forced to use a cheaper substitute for sable, such as imitation sable, camel hair or squirrel. ]]> http://modern-paintings.blog.hubickart.com/creating-a-masterpiece/ http://modern-paintings.blog.hubickart.com/form-and-features-in-portrait-painting-explained/ http://modern-paintings.blog.hubickart.com/how-the-paint-color-chart-impresses-people-that-view-your-work/