Monday, July 30, 2012

Suggestions For Painting Sunlight


To be a good landscape artist, you have to be a student of nature. If you study the effect sunlight has on the trees, dirt, flowers, rivers, streams, oceans, snow, and everything else in sight, then you know the colors are in constant change with the time of day and the atmospheric conditions.

If you are painting your landscape from nature, you may find the hues changing as the sun crosses the sky. In many instances there is the need to finish the work in the studio. You should get in the habit of constantly making color swatches of what you see. If you do this, be certain to make good notes describing the time of day, the month (season), the atmospheric conditions at the time, and the exact color mixing formula. Always keep these filed and notated. It takes time, but you will eventually have hundreds of color swatches that gives you perfect reference material.

Here are some tips to consider when painting the sun into your landscape:

When the first light appears just before the sun rises, the landscape is flooded with shades of blue and purple. Apply these cool colors to your painting. The underpainting should be more of a lavender hue. This will create a comforting mood. However, to keep the painting from being too moody (as well as, keeping it more interesting), add a few touches of color, perhaps flowers or wild weeds or complement specks (tiny dabs of pigment of the opposite hue).

At sunrise, the temperature of the painting becomes warm and not cool. This is a completely different painting than the one started just a few minutes before when the first light was showing. The painting for this time of day should start with a Cadmium Yellow Light or Lemon Yellow wash. This color will dominate the painting and should be mixed with all the hues. However, as the sun continues to cross the sky, the cast of yellow becomes a deeper hue.

When the sun is directly overhead, a darker yellow should be dominant throughout the painting. Experiment with this but often yellow ochre and oranges will be a good place to start. Whatever mixture of colors selected, the value should be light because the sun washes out the darker tones. Trees, for example, should be lighter at the top than at the bottom. Be sure to notice that shadows are more harsh at this time of day.

As the sun falls into the western hemisphere, more oranges and reds and purples are evident. By sunset, the yellow hues have almost vanished. The closer to dusk, the cooler the temperature of the painting. These colors should be mixed into your foliage to make it appear as a natural sunset.

After sunset, your deep reds influence all the colors of nature. A Cadmium Red Deep should be mixed with all the hues in the painting. You need to experiment with this. What you are trying to do is tone down the green of the trees and the other foliage.

If the atmosphere has fog present, then a painting needs to accurately show this. Amidst the painted fog, an atmosphere of softness must prevail. With a mixture of white and the complement of the colors used to paint the scene that must be fogged over, use a dry-brush technique by overlapping strokes in different directions until the edges of the area are softened. This should be done very gently. If not satisfied with the results, wait until after the paint dries and repeat the process.

Monday, July 23, 2012

How to Be a Good Master of Ceremonies?

If you are looking for a credible way to earn money, you might want to consider becoming a host or emcee. If you have experience in public speaking and communication skills you think that you can make it good in this career, then you might want to try it. Many people already use their skills to speak and communicate in public. You can be a good host to a party, event or meeting. With this career, you can have income all year round as there will always be parties, events and meetings that are held almost every day. And if you have to be credible enough as master of ceremonies, you will surely be lining up to service your clients. So, what makes a good master of ceremonies?

First of all, you need to understand that a career is mostly spoken in public. So make sure that you take care of your appearance and you keep improving your communication skills. How do you see will definitely affect the acceptance of people with what you say. Make sure that you always look your best and look friendly as ever. You also need to improve your speaking skills as you will be speaking at the party and an event most of the time. You will lead the program that makes you act like a guide to events or parties will be set correctly.

When speaking in public, make sure that you only use nice words. Avoid words that can be interpreted as offensive or discriminatory. Use simple words and do not complicate the idea of ​​using words that are difficult to understand. You also need to increase the level of knowledge you have. If your ceremony is a guide, then you have to know much about it. You may research on the background and experience relating to events or parties. This will give you more things to say that will prevent boredom during a party or event.

Collect a lot of charisma and always show confidence when you host a party or event. This would indicate that you are an experienced presenter and knows everything about the job. Your charisma will surely make a big difference as the audience would have listened to every word you say. In order for you to have both, you need to know what style works for you well. Be unique and give the style in which you are most comfortable with.

You can also add a little humor to your line. This will make your audience feel comfortable and interested in every word you will say. It will also help in adding life and color to the event.

Monday, July 16, 2012

How to Paint Hair?


Painting portraits is a great hobby that gives both the artist and the model much pleasure. It is better for both however if the texture, color and flow of the hair closely matches the model. Follow these steps to obtain more realistic colors in your next portrait.

Before painting hair, you should always have the rest of the face finished first. The flesh color extend into the hairline. This is so that the flesh color shows through and the hair does not look unnatural. Remember that hair is much more than one layer, therefore, you need to paint it in layers. There are also hundreds of shades of hair color. To keep it as simple as possible try to base each portrait with, blonde, brown (this includes red), black or gray.

Under paint the entire hair area with a very light mixture of one of these colors. These are called undertones. This under painting will actually be the highlights because as you work you will not cover all of this. Notice where the dark or shadowed areas are and paint them in. Now use a darker color and start stroking in hair strands. Black is the opposite. Start with the darkest as the undertones, then add lighter layers. Continue until you are satisfied with the results. It is very easy to overdo hair. Know when to stop!

Here are the colors you will use for any hair tone. Remember to apply the undertones first

Blonde (Reds) Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow Medium, (Alizarin Crimson)

Use Burnt Umber to darken blonde and red hair

Brown Titanium White, Burnt Umber

Use Cadmium Red or Ivory Black for red or blackish tones

Black Ivory Black Undertones

Warm Black - Ivory Black & touch of Brown

Cool Black - Ivory Black & touch of Blue

Gray Titanium White, Ivory Black for a Gray Undertone

Warm Gray - Ivory Black & touch of Brown

Cool Gray - Ivory Black & touch of Blue

Start the first layer, or undertones with a very watery mixture of paint. Use a medium to large brush because you are not painting details. Don't try to paint in individual hair strands at this stage. Start addinf more paint color to your brush and add some more layers. Pull the brush in the direction of the flow of hair. Use a liner brush to add some indications of individual strands. Add any deep pockets of color to really give the portrait depth. I added some deep shadow on the side of the neck.

Monday, July 9, 2012

Expressing Yourself Freely Through Your Voice


This course is actually the reason people are very interested in music in the first place. Music is such a pure expression, and so too, is singing. The whole purpose of studying vocal technique and music theory is to develop an adequate vocabulary to express what we feel at the time.

There are no rules for expressions. There are only a transfer of emotion. During the emotion is removed, you have a look! But there are laws to follow a good basis for expression in music. These are: the consistency of tempo and pitch consistency.

Consistency of tempo: this, for musicians, such as the canvas for a painter. It is a surface in which we create and develop ideas. Just as the painter, the canvas we do not have to change every few seconds. This is a good rule to follow.

Consistency of the field: "pitchy" is a word too often used much now, thanks to programs like "American Idol". Drawing from the analogy of a painter, we can say that this is the color of the piece. Must have a certain color theme, and all colors must match the theme. A painting of a dark, dreary would be destroyed by a dash, a sudden out-of-the pink spot in the middle of a job.

So it is with music - a song with a mellow tone Eb will be destroyed by a strong record of his time in beats. We call it the key signature in music and we tend to remain in the main theme or color pieces.

This, if followed, creating something that listeners can understand. Constant tempo and key to provide some basis that the listener can hold on, while exploring the ideas expressed above. Once again, the familiar analogy of painting on canvas.

That being said, the singer is currently too focused on the field. Sing in perfect pitch is all the rave now. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but the consequence was that all the songs started to sound the same. This Autotune effects, and sounds more expressive than cosmetic.

The artists of previous generations used to not care too much about the rules. They are more focused on the expression. And boy, do they get good results. Jazz is based on deliberately deviate from the natural primary key, in which all the notes sound 'right'. Beatles songs have the occasional diminished chord, which sounds terrible on their own, but in the right context is magical.

This applies to the singer as well. The older generation of singers rarely used "correctly" sing pitches. Sharped or flatted their records to express the emotion of the song. They also include the effects that are common in everyday speech such as shouting, moaning, whispering, asked, surprise, and the entire spectrum of human emotion.

Emotion and expression is lost in the current production style, which uses software to even out the field and remove irregularities. This makes no sense to me from the standpoint of expression. People who are happy may be a little sharped pitch. People in a mellow mood may go flat. This is not always heard in the untrained ear (which is why I decided to teach myself the perfect pitch), but such effect occurred in the hearts of the listeners.

That's why the songs are older so green, because they speak to us in ways we can relate as a human being, with imperfections here and there. The songs today are so made that they feel artificial. Such as tomatoes from the supermarket that looks good but has a flavor does not compare, not perfectly round, home-grown tomatoes.

When you become an accomplished vocalist with reading this article and get the recommended program, be sure to remember this point when you are actually out there singing. Take advantage of out of "humanitarian" you - I know, it's a new word I came up with a second ago - and do not be afraid to use unconventional sounds in your singing.

Monday, July 2, 2012

How to Paint People?


How to paint is a common question that people start looking for portraits of many artists on the Internet or in bookstores. Chances are that they have attempted to paint portraits of people 'and not happy with the results. There are several tricks and techniques that can be used to paint a portrait that is achieved can be produced. I will explain some of the easiest ways I found to learn how to paint people.

Get An Accurate Drawing On Your Canvas

If your image is to capture the form of a specific individual, you will want to sketch a portrait in pencil before painting. You can free hand if you are not good at drawing. Some of the easier method, but must use a grid and a duplicate image to the canvas by drawing a box or replicate individual boxes. And my other favorite method is to print a paper copy of black and white photographs, and then completely darken the back of the paper with soft charcoal. The next place on canvas and paper with a sharp pencil, draw more than enough pictures to print. Your sketch will appear on the canvas as if by magic!

Indication Of The Cat

One of the easiest ways to draw people is to keep things simple and only indicative of the paint. If you're confused than not. The easiest way to explain what I mean is for me to illustrate this with an example. Imagine a beach scene with a couple walking hand in hand away in the distance. If you were to examine the near future, you may notice that they are simply a form. Each head is only going to be a round shape on top of a triangular body, on top of two rectangular legs. Two rectangular sleeve quick connect body. Add highlights and you have some people that simple!

Cat Only Part Of The People

Many artists struggle with accuracy when painting people. It is true that one feature should be accurate in order to be successful portrait. If you choose a pose that describes the views or partial views you can cut your work and make a portrait of two attractive with only half of the face paint is actually seen. For example, try to paint a profile of children on the beach boy vs a straight face.

Cat Person Or Persons Unknown foreign

Another fun and easy way to paint is to paint the foreigners. The reason for this is that you're trying to get an exact likeness. If you have already made their nose is too big or too small, no one would know the difference! You can use magazines, books or other painting to get some ideas. Let's say that you are taking photos at the garden of an old woman sitting on a park bench and reading a book. You decide to change the images in the painting. The painting will still be attractive even if she did not resemble the actual picture at all, because nobody knows him anyways.

Do not Paint What You Can not Paint

A great technique for painting the human is to choose a pose that does not require a lot of detail. One way to do this is by painting a subject who was wearing sunglasses, if you are timid about painting the eyes. If you are not comfortable painting gear and then paint the mouth closed or drape the scarf around the face. A very funny pose for a portrait of a child is to have them peek out from behind something. You will only see part of the face and it was a sweet scene with only a portion of the show face.
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