Residual Income Home Business Opportunity DirectoryYou are here » Residual Income Home Business Opportunity » Links Directory » Kids and Teens » Arts (0)
Arts RSS FeedsMalcolm Bull: Climate Change Ethics - For the benefit of anyone who has spent the past decade or so on a different planet, the most frequently asked questions about climate change on this one are as follows. Is it getting warmer? Yes, surface temperatures have risen by 0.8°C from pre-industrial levels. Are humans causing it? Almost certainly. The gases produced by industrialisation and agriculture are known to have an insulating effect, and their concentration in the earth?s atmosphere has increased in line with rising temperatures, while natural causes of global warming have remained constant. Will it get warmer still? Very probably, though no one can accurately predict when or by how much....Feed Source: www.lrb.co.uk Layla Al-Zubaidi: In Syria - ?Welcome to Assad?s Syria,? the signpost at the Lebanese-Syrian border still says, letting the visitor know who owns the country. The ceasefire had just been announced, but few Syrians I knew held out much hope that three hundred UN observers could keep an eye on the whole army. The journey from Beirut to Damascus by shared taxi takes less than three hours. For years I?ve come this way to visit the Syrian side of my family. It was clear that things had changed. Political talk among the passengers used to be limited to hushed complaints about the border police.... Iain Sinclair: Meeting Gary Snyder - Coming through the woods, down a soft winding track, two minutes shy of the time we have been instructed to arrive, 10 a.m. on a bright Sunday morning, we see the man already there in the clearing, his right hand on the dog?s collar. Two minutes later, you feel, and he?d be gone. But this is the right person, undoubtedly, the one we have come to see. In a solid, heavy, hired car, a Chevrolet Impala, we have driven down the coast, on 101, from Seattle to Eureka, where a mudslide after weeks of rain diverted us over the mountains to Red Bluff.... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 34 No. 10 (24 May 2012)... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 34 No. 10 (24 May 2012)... White Chalk on Black Paper -
Drawing with white chalk on black paper can look really effective and dramatic. But handled badly, it can also look really 'wrong'! The biggest problem is the temptation to outline in white, where we would normally be using a graphite pencil. The trick is to reverse the way we look at things. With graphite or ink, we draw the darks and shadows, and sometimes don't give the highlights much attention. When drawing with white on black, we need to pay lots of attention to the lights, as well as shading the darker and mid tones lightly to bring them into the correct value range. It's a fantastic mental exercise, even if you prefer to work on white paper, as it will challenge you to really think about what you are drawing and develop your sensitivity to light and shade. If you are a pastelist, working with pure white on black is a useful way to improve your awareness of value without the complicati... Better Photographs Make Better Drawings - It's generally better to draw from life than to draw from a photograph, but sometimes having a subject sit for hours isn't possible. Kids are particularly challenging sitters - they just won't sit still for a moment! If you're going to draw from a photograph, you really need it to be a good one. A well-lit picture with a natural subject is so much easier to draw and will give you really great results. It's particularly important when drawing animals, so I put together a tutorial on photographing your pet for drawing and painting. For more quick, expert advice on taking great photos, head over to About.com's ... Vincent 'Starry Night' Drawing Wallpaper - Hot off the press, here's a wallpaper of Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' drawing in ink, with an inspirational quote revealing how Vincent felt about the importance of drawing. There are two versions, one for iPad and one for a small computer desktop. More coming soon! Check out the Starry Night WallpaperVincent 'Starry Night' Drawing Wallpaper originally appeared on About.com Drawing / Sketching on Monday, April 30th, 2012 at 09:11:58.Perma... Draw a Viking Warrior - If you love fantasy, action and adventure movies you've probably already seen 'Thor' and 'The Avengers' starring the Aussie actor Chris Hemsworth. The movies are based on the Marvel comic books and so don't spend much time in the ancient world - Thor looks like a thoroughly modern hero! Here's a more traditional comic book take on an heroic Viking character for you to draw. Draw a Viking Warrior.Draw a Viking Warrior originally appeared on About.com Drawing / Sketching on Monday, April 30th, 2012 at ... Leonardo da Vinci Quotes on Drawing - Leonardo da Vinci is a fascinating artist, and while a few enigmatic pieces get a lot of airtime, I often think that the old master has a lot to offer the modern artist beyond these iconic works. I thought I'd take a look at where Leonardo is coming from and what he has to say on a few topics about drawing, perspective and learning to be an artist. Leonardo Quotes and DrawingsLeonardo da Vinci Quotes on Drawing originally appeared on About.com Drawing / Sketching on Monday, April 30th, 2012 at 00:07:27.... Improving Your Drawing: Middle Values - An error I've noticed in many beginner (and even more experienced) artists' work lately is a gap in the tonal range. Often artists will focus on the outlines, so these will be strong, and they know they need confident darks, so they'll shade quite powerful shadows. But then things go a bit pear-shaped when they start to tackle the rest of the shading. I think in part it's a desire to get the subtleties of tone so not to be too heavy-handed, but they get stuck in the upper register. Or perhaps it's fear - once you've laid down a lot of graphite, it can be hard to go lighten up.
We also see a lot of high-key and high-contrast images in the popular media - strong lighting, heightened contrast and airbrushing give us pale, featureless photographs with dark outlines. So maybe we are used to that lack of richness through the middle values.
Try creating a Grayscale test st... Improve Your Drawing - The trouble with being stuck in a rut is that you don't always know it - you keep going over the same old ground and it's not until you're entrenched in a well-worn groove that you discover that you're repeating yourself. If you're lucky, it just means that you never get beyond being 'pretty good' and your work always has that familiar 'look' to it. If you're not, it can mean mediocrity and a slow wearing-away of creativity and enthusiasm. Here are six ways to push give your creative skills a boost and get out of the same-old. Check out the article on Ways to Better Drawing.Improve Your Drawing originally appeared on ... Pencil Shading Exercise - Shade an Egg. - Practicing shading with simple objects is a good way to develop skills quickly. Instead of thinking about a composition with many complicated textures, you can pay attention to subtle changes of tone and concentrate on handling the pencil to get the kind of shading you want. It's useful to try these exercises out with different papers and pencils - for example, as well as basic sketchbook paper, try a smooth hot-pressed paper as well as something with a rougher surface, laid paper or handmade. Try using only a 6b, and also try using some harder pencils. Be sure to check out Introduction to Pencil Shading for tips on different ways to shade with pencil, then try the ... Draw Cartoon Sea Animals - Summer for most of us means the sea - if not in it or on it, at least beside it, getting some vitamin D in the warm sun. For me heading into the cold of an Aussie winter, that's a very appealing idea! Shawn Encarnacion created these cute and friendly sea animals to draw and color in. With simple shapes and easy steps, even young kids will be able to draw these cartoon sea creatures. First up is a cute cartoon seal. These adorable furry friends are always popular!
Next, a bit less cuddly but still kinda cute - at least in its cartoon version - is an octopus. With all those legs, this guy looks a bit tricky, but remember - you don't have to get it exact. It's a cartoon, so you've got a lot of room f... Practice the Tricky Bits - It's always enjoyable to draw the easy things - it's fun when everything goes well and the drawing flows smoothly. It's only natural to avoid difficult things. But unfortunately, avoiding them isn't going to make them any easier! It's a classic feature of any first-year drawing class (especially once they've done enough to realize which bits are hardest) - lots of focus on the torso but the hands and feet either fade out, or fall off the edge of the paper.
The best time to practice drawing hands and feet is outside of class, when you're not using an expensive figure drawing model. Draw the feet and hands of friends and family watching television or reading. Do consider the whole figure and relate the feet and hands to the rest of the body, considering proportion.
... Copyright © 2012, Residual Income Home Business Opportunity. All Rights Reserved. |
