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Shiv's Wing Studies
Shiv's Poseur Studies
Shiv's Poseur Drawings
Negative space is an artistic technique for which there are simple and complex instructions.
Shiv's Sculpture of Poseur
In T-America, an artist clock is a programmable clock with multiple features. Usually it can display the time as well as a count down or count up, with timer and alarm options. The better models have a classroom mode to give sets of the same or variable lengths of time. Some have additional features such as day/date, moon phase, temperature, humidity, color coding, text line for titles, emergency alerts, etc. that assist with safety and time management.
Blending tools are designed for blending oil pastels or other art media. This set shows a simple kit for pastels.
Pan pastels can be used in various ways.
Art sponges come in many shapes and sizes from different brands. They are convenient for making landscapes. Watch a video about art sponges. An assortment will go a long way.
See Shiv's creme pastel picture of Princessa.
Painterly means a loose style in artwork, often done in pastels. Another term is expressive.
Dye Fuse -- an art company that produces a variety of pigments and color products, including creme pastels and fixatives such as Shiny. They are less careful about using nontoxic ingredients, and in particular, mixing their products with someone else's can produce toxic results.
Fingerpant -- an art company that specializes in skin-safe media for hand application. These include creme pastels in pots, fingerpaints for children and adults, powdered charcoal and graphite, pigment powders, and carrier media. They also stock some related tools and materials like fixatives including Creamy. This is one of the safest art companies. They prefer nontoxic ingredients, organic and fair-trade supplies where possible, and anything questionable is carefully labeled.
Iris Designs -- an art company that makes creme pastels in various formats, along with related tools and materials like fixatives including Hi-Gloss.
Zowie! -- an art company that makes a variety of media including creme pastels in various formats, along with related tools and materials like fixatives including Matte Dog. They favor super-saturated palettes.
Known combinations of creme pastels and fixatives with their effects:
Creme de la Creme sticks
and Iris Designs Hi-Gloss:
Runs like a deer! Perfect
for madras-like effects.
Creme de la Creme
pastel pots and Zowie!
Matte Dog: Sludge.
Destroys everything.
Not recommended.
Fingerpant pastel pots
and Creme de la Creme
Matte: Heavy separation
with pools and cells.
Best for marbling.
Iris Designs pencils
and Fingerpant Creamy:
Pigment dispersal with
long-range traveling.
Good for wicking tricks.
Fingerpant sticks and
Dye Fuse Shiny: Toxic!
Dangerous to use.
Local-Earth oil pastels never dry out, remaining soft and sticky. Fixatives are only somewhat effective at making them less sticky (and thus less prone to attract dust) and less prone to smear. People usually resort to glass frames for protecting this fragile medium.
Terramagne creme pastels are constructed in various ways to create a creamy product that blends easily. Pencils or sticks don't dry out in storage, only when turned into a thin coat on paper; pots are typically covered for protection, although a blob will still take a very long time to dry out. The pencils are stiffest, almost waxy with a faint creaminess, for sharp lines. Finished drawings can be sprayed immediately and one layer of fixative usually locks everything in place securely. Sticks are firm in hand but creamy on paper, good for broad strokes. Finished drawings can be sprayed immediately or after a short drying time, and one or two layers of fixative should suffice. The kind in a pot is a thick cream, almost the consistency of finger paint, most often used to cover large areas or add smooth highlights and shadows in patches. It needs to dry for a few hours before spraying, and often needs three or more coats. Because creme pastels are not runny, they may be dried vertically with clips or horizontally with shelves; paintings typically do better horizontally. A fan can assist both ventilation and drying time. Drawings that combine multiple types of creme pastels use the longer drying time, and usually need two to three coats of fixative. Fixatives are available in matte, creamy, and high-gloss finishes.
An interesting advantage of creme pastels is that, like oil pastels, they stick to almost any surface -- paper, artboard, canvas, metal, glass, rock, wood, plastic, you name it. Most fixatives are designed for standard art surfaces such as paper, artboard, and canvas. Special fixatives are needed to seal creme pastels onto glass, metal, or other unusual materials. Some companies only sell a standard fixative; others have multiple formulas for different surfaces. Some also offer other products, such as stain carriers, for using creme pastels on wood or other surfaces. You can make a spectacular "unicorn spit" finish with creme pastels and a carrier.
The real catch is that each company uses its own formula for composing products, which means the best results come from using the same brand of both creme pastels and fixative. This is partly because they make different decisions regarding drying time, and some even offer fast-drying creme pastels that are a bit like acrylics or non-drying creme pastels that behave more like oil pastels. Mixing and matching brands of creme pastels on paper, or between creme pastels and fixative, can give odd results such as streaking, pooling, or pigment separation. However, some artists have learned which ones give which effects -- it tends to stay consistent with a given combination -- and use them on purpose as a way to vary color and texture.
Unfixed creme pastel drawings are often transported in temporary cases of clear plastic that secure the paper by its edges in the center so that nothing touches the image. These are usually made from recycled plastic and they resemble CD cases. They are readily available in several standard sizes commonly used for sketchbooks or looseleaf art paper; a wider range of sizes can be ordered.
Creme of the Clock phone app for tracking artworks, artists, and drying time
free, basic, premium, and professional options:
* free includes a simple timer for gesture drawing, tracking up to 5 pictures at a time, a guide to company products, and beginner tutorials
* basic adds a selection of gesture drawing routines, intermediate tutorials, image sharing and archive features, and a studio mode for long-term tracking of many works
* premium includes a gesture drawing class mode with several variable options, advanced tutorials, an art chat function, ability to follow favorite members, and a class mode for tracking works of many artists
* professional includes a sophisticated programmable art clock, an artist registry; the ability to make, archive, and share your own tutorials; and known combinations of pastels/fixatives and their failures or useful artistic effects.
Colorado Heights Recreative Denver Interior Art Party Lunch Buffet (back to front, left to right)
Rice, beans, fried potato wedges, pita pockets. Samosas.
Beet and feta cheese cups. Shredded cheese. Vegetable platter with 3 dips.
Barbecue beans and weenies.
Japanese Strawberry Shortcake. Sfinci. Tea sandwiches.
Mini cupcakes. Spinach puffs.
Vegan notdogs. Gluten-free buns. Fruit platter.
Colorado Heights Recreative Denver Interior Art Party Beverage Bar
Lemon-Limeade, Cucumber-Tomato Water
Sparkling water, club soda, ginger ale
Torani flavor syrups
Italian sodas are easy to make.
Texture media and equipment enable a wide range of techniques. They're usually used with oil paint here. Terramagne offers more options. Explore some oil painting tutorials.
Sculpting with acrylic paint spans a variety of techniques. Here are some acrylic painting tutorials.
See the sand moth painting.
This is Shiv's beach painting with sand.
See Pavo's tidepool painting with sand.
Here is Vada's glass bead painting on Grateful.
See Shiv's glass bead painting of a pear.
This is Pavo's glass bead painting on Life.
Texture pastes can be used in various ways with stencils for acrylic or mixed media products. Explore some Golden media. You can buy texture pastes or make your own. Here is an example of a mixed media card using multiple texture materials.
Here is the glass bead painting of an octopus.
Impasto oil painting uses thick paste for various texture techniques. (Note that this free article includes a PayPal button so you can tip the artist.) It's popular for painting flowers such as poppies, almond blossoms, or meadows. You can paint with a pastry bag. Explore impasto techniques for beginners. Common tools include spatulas, wedges, polytip bristle brushes, and silicone sculpting tools. Here are some videos about impasto.
Palette knives can be used in many techniques, some unusual. Compare different sets. Read a guide on palette knife painting.
Cheap Joe's Traditional Painting Knife Set
FX Special Effects Palette Knives By Creative Mark
Creative Mark FX Effects Taklon Brushes
Color shapers are typically made from silicone and come in many styles. Some resemble paintbruses but with solid ends, while others are more like a spatula, comb, or scraper. They can be used in many contexts such as paint, ceramic clay, polymer clay, plaster, texture pastes, cake icing, and other soft media.
Princeton Catalyst Blades and Mini-Blades
Art Pattern Combs
You can make your own texture combs for painting techniques. Here is an example of a textured project.
Paletta is a Terramagne set of highly durable art media for making visual-tactile art. It's similar to the sculpture additives for oil or acrylic paints, and the texture gels used in papercrafts. For the paints you mix in something to make it stand off the page, and some of those ingredients are pretty toxic. The craft stuff is much safer, and it works the opposite -- you add pigments to a base gel or paste. Some are available in premixed colors, others meant for you to mix your own. Another method is to use white or clear texture media, then paint over it; while less durable, this uses a lot less pigment. A clear topcoat can be applied to protect to the art further. Most of the stuff on the market, whether professional or hobby grade, is not intended for frequent handling. The Paletta versions are for art that's meant to be touched a lot. That means they also work great for making or modifying game pieces.
Paletta products include:
Sandstorm Arts and Crafts Sand (Fine, Medium, Coarse, and Mixed Grit)
Pretty Pearls Glass Bead Gel (available in Clear, also various colors of gel and beads)
Creamy Dream Sculptural Paint Base
Hi-Loft Extra-Stiff Sculptural Paint Base (also available in other textures)
The Feel and See Art Movement that began in Terramagne around 2000 is inspired somewhat by this, although people use all kinds of materials in it. Colors are indicated with textures as well as pigments; for example, grass is often combed while leaves are typically ragged. Some people favor additives, like using glass bead gel for blue water and blended fibers for white clouds. Mosaics can be made with ColorADD or Feelipa symbols, or the artist's own system such as pennies for copper and bottlecaps for silver. These are enormously popular among blind artists because they can glue down pieces and feel the art taking shape as they go along. However, some critics mock it as childish and clumsy, which has led to a lot of nasty arguments.
Feel and See Art is meant to be touched as well as seen. Some of it is made from rigid materials like glass that don't hold dirt easily, don't wear down fast, and can be cleaned without damage. Some is made from malleable media that harden, which are somewhat less durable, but still a lot better than things not designed for this purpose. Some is made from ephemeral media, most often the standard art supplies for professional or hobby use, with the intent of it wearing away over time. This is most popular among Asian artists who favor wabi-sabi aesthetics. Regrettably this spawned another appalling argument when critics condemned it as "Fall Apart Art" and Asian people sued them for A) defamatory remarks and B) racism. But it's really a values disagreement: some people think entropy is beautiful while others think it's ugly.
In T-America, the government provides extensive grants, subsidies, and other programs to make inclusive games, toys, and art supplies available to a wide range of people. Emphasis goes to stocking them in schools and for disabled individuals, free or cheap, but ideally they should be available to everyone. It helps that the National Endowment for the Arts has 100 times the budget in T-America that it does in L-America.
Paletta Creamy Dream Sculptural Paint Base
See Vada's flamenco dancer impasto in Creamy Dream.
Here is Shiv's lake picture impasto in Creamy Dream.
"You know me, I think there ought to be a big old tree right there. And let's give him a friend. Everybody needs a friend."
-- Bob Ross
This is Pavo's sailboat impasto in Creamy Dream.
A glitter path forms across a body of water as a low-lying light source reflects over its surface. Calm water leaves a smooth, narrow path while choppy water makes a wider path with more scattered fragments. Sunsets can show much about the sea's mood -- hence "Red sky at night, sailor's delight," although this painting shows a wide broken glitter path.
See Vada's impasto sunflowers with Paletta Hi-Loft.
See Pavo's impasto roses with Paletta Hi-Loft.
Shiv's Wing Studies
Shiv's Poseur Studies
Shiv's Poseur Drawings
Negative space is an artistic technique for which there are simple and complex instructions.
Shiv's Sculpture of Poseur
In T-America, an artist clock is a programmable clock with multiple features. Usually it can display the time as well as a count down or count up, with timer and alarm options. The better models have a classroom mode to give sets of the same or variable lengths of time. Some have additional features such as day/date, moon phase, temperature, humidity, color coding, text line for titles, emergency alerts, etc. that assist with safety and time management.
Blending tools are designed for blending oil pastels or other art media. This set shows a simple kit for pastels.
Pan pastels can be used in various ways.
Art sponges come in many shapes and sizes from different brands. They are convenient for making landscapes. Watch a video about art sponges. An assortment will go a long way.
See Shiv's creme pastel picture of Princessa.
Painterly means a loose style in artwork, often done in pastels. Another term is expressive.
Dye Fuse -- an art company that produces a variety of pigments and color products, including creme pastels and fixatives such as Shiny. They are less careful about using nontoxic ingredients, and in particular, mixing their products with someone else's can produce toxic results.
Fingerpant -- an art company that specializes in skin-safe media for hand application. These include creme pastels in pots, fingerpaints for children and adults, powdered charcoal and graphite, pigment powders, and carrier media. They also stock some related tools and materials like fixatives including Creamy. This is one of the safest art companies. They prefer nontoxic ingredients, organic and fair-trade supplies where possible, and anything questionable is carefully labeled.
Iris Designs -- an art company that makes creme pastels in various formats, along with related tools and materials like fixatives including Hi-Gloss.
Zowie! -- an art company that makes a variety of media including creme pastels in various formats, along with related tools and materials like fixatives including Matte Dog. They favor super-saturated palettes.
Known combinations of creme pastels and fixatives with their effects:
Creme de la Creme sticks
and Iris Designs Hi-Gloss:
Runs like a deer! Perfect
for madras-like effects.
Creme de la Creme
pastel pots and Zowie!
Matte Dog: Sludge.
Destroys everything.
Not recommended.
Fingerpant pastel pots
and Creme de la Creme
Matte: Heavy separation
with pools and cells.
Best for marbling.
Iris Designs pencils
and Fingerpant Creamy:
Pigment dispersal with
long-range traveling.
Good for wicking tricks.
Fingerpant sticks and
Dye Fuse Shiny: Toxic!
Dangerous to use.
Local-Earth oil pastels never dry out, remaining soft and sticky. Fixatives are only somewhat effective at making them less sticky (and thus less prone to attract dust) and less prone to smear. People usually resort to glass frames for protecting this fragile medium.
Terramagne creme pastels are constructed in various ways to create a creamy product that blends easily. Pencils or sticks don't dry out in storage, only when turned into a thin coat on paper; pots are typically covered for protection, although a blob will still take a very long time to dry out. The pencils are stiffest, almost waxy with a faint creaminess, for sharp lines. Finished drawings can be sprayed immediately and one layer of fixative usually locks everything in place securely. Sticks are firm in hand but creamy on paper, good for broad strokes. Finished drawings can be sprayed immediately or after a short drying time, and one or two layers of fixative should suffice. The kind in a pot is a thick cream, almost the consistency of finger paint, most often used to cover large areas or add smooth highlights and shadows in patches. It needs to dry for a few hours before spraying, and often needs three or more coats. Because creme pastels are not runny, they may be dried vertically with clips or horizontally with shelves; paintings typically do better horizontally. A fan can assist both ventilation and drying time. Drawings that combine multiple types of creme pastels use the longer drying time, and usually need two to three coats of fixative. Fixatives are available in matte, creamy, and high-gloss finishes.
An interesting advantage of creme pastels is that, like oil pastels, they stick to almost any surface -- paper, artboard, canvas, metal, glass, rock, wood, plastic, you name it. Most fixatives are designed for standard art surfaces such as paper, artboard, and canvas. Special fixatives are needed to seal creme pastels onto glass, metal, or other unusual materials. Some companies only sell a standard fixative; others have multiple formulas for different surfaces. Some also offer other products, such as stain carriers, for using creme pastels on wood or other surfaces. You can make a spectacular "unicorn spit" finish with creme pastels and a carrier.
The real catch is that each company uses its own formula for composing products, which means the best results come from using the same brand of both creme pastels and fixative. This is partly because they make different decisions regarding drying time, and some even offer fast-drying creme pastels that are a bit like acrylics or non-drying creme pastels that behave more like oil pastels. Mixing and matching brands of creme pastels on paper, or between creme pastels and fixative, can give odd results such as streaking, pooling, or pigment separation. However, some artists have learned which ones give which effects -- it tends to stay consistent with a given combination -- and use them on purpose as a way to vary color and texture.
Unfixed creme pastel drawings are often transported in temporary cases of clear plastic that secure the paper by its edges in the center so that nothing touches the image. These are usually made from recycled plastic and they resemble CD cases. They are readily available in several standard sizes commonly used for sketchbooks or looseleaf art paper; a wider range of sizes can be ordered.
Creme of the Clock phone app for tracking artworks, artists, and drying time
free, basic, premium, and professional options:
* free includes a simple timer for gesture drawing, tracking up to 5 pictures at a time, a guide to company products, and beginner tutorials
* basic adds a selection of gesture drawing routines, intermediate tutorials, image sharing and archive features, and a studio mode for long-term tracking of many works
* premium includes a gesture drawing class mode with several variable options, advanced tutorials, an art chat function, ability to follow favorite members, and a class mode for tracking works of many artists
* professional includes a sophisticated programmable art clock, an artist registry; the ability to make, archive, and share your own tutorials; and known combinations of pastels/fixatives and their failures or useful artistic effects.
Colorado Heights Recreative Denver Interior Art Party Lunch Buffet (back to front, left to right)
Rice, beans, fried potato wedges, pita pockets. Samosas.
Beet and feta cheese cups. Shredded cheese. Vegetable platter with 3 dips.
Barbecue beans and weenies.
Japanese Strawberry Shortcake. Sfinci. Tea sandwiches.
Mini cupcakes. Spinach puffs.
Vegan notdogs. Gluten-free buns. Fruit platter.
Colorado Heights Recreative Denver Interior Art Party Beverage Bar
Lemon-Limeade, Cucumber-Tomato Water
Sparkling water, club soda, ginger ale
Torani flavor syrups
Italian sodas are easy to make.
Texture media and equipment enable a wide range of techniques. They're usually used with oil paint here. Terramagne offers more options. Explore some oil painting tutorials.
Sculpting with acrylic paint spans a variety of techniques. Here are some acrylic painting tutorials.
See the sand moth painting.
This is Shiv's beach painting with sand.
See Pavo's tidepool painting with sand.
Here is Vada's glass bead painting on Grateful.
See Shiv's glass bead painting of a pear.
This is Pavo's glass bead painting on Life.
Texture pastes can be used in various ways with stencils for acrylic or mixed media products. Explore some Golden media. You can buy texture pastes or make your own. Here is an example of a mixed media card using multiple texture materials.
Here is the glass bead painting of an octopus.
Impasto oil painting uses thick paste for various texture techniques. (Note that this free article includes a PayPal button so you can tip the artist.) It's popular for painting flowers such as poppies, almond blossoms, or meadows. You can paint with a pastry bag. Explore impasto techniques for beginners. Common tools include spatulas, wedges, polytip bristle brushes, and silicone sculpting tools. Here are some videos about impasto.
Palette knives can be used in many techniques, some unusual. Compare different sets. Read a guide on palette knife painting.
Cheap Joe's Traditional Painting Knife Set
FX Special Effects Palette Knives By Creative Mark
Creative Mark FX Effects Taklon Brushes
Color shapers are typically made from silicone and come in many styles. Some resemble paintbruses but with solid ends, while others are more like a spatula, comb, or scraper. They can be used in many contexts such as paint, ceramic clay, polymer clay, plaster, texture pastes, cake icing, and other soft media.
Princeton Catalyst Blades and Mini-Blades
Art Pattern Combs
You can make your own texture combs for painting techniques. Here is an example of a textured project.
Paletta is a Terramagne set of highly durable art media for making visual-tactile art. It's similar to the sculpture additives for oil or acrylic paints, and the texture gels used in papercrafts. For the paints you mix in something to make it stand off the page, and some of those ingredients are pretty toxic. The craft stuff is much safer, and it works the opposite -- you add pigments to a base gel or paste. Some are available in premixed colors, others meant for you to mix your own. Another method is to use white or clear texture media, then paint over it; while less durable, this uses a lot less pigment. A clear topcoat can be applied to protect to the art further. Most of the stuff on the market, whether professional or hobby grade, is not intended for frequent handling. The Paletta versions are for art that's meant to be touched a lot. That means they also work great for making or modifying game pieces.
Paletta products include:
Sandstorm Arts and Crafts Sand (Fine, Medium, Coarse, and Mixed Grit)
Pretty Pearls Glass Bead Gel (available in Clear, also various colors of gel and beads)
Creamy Dream Sculptural Paint Base
Hi-Loft Extra-Stiff Sculptural Paint Base (also available in other textures)
The Feel and See Art Movement that began in Terramagne around 2000 is inspired somewhat by this, although people use all kinds of materials in it. Colors are indicated with textures as well as pigments; for example, grass is often combed while leaves are typically ragged. Some people favor additives, like using glass bead gel for blue water and blended fibers for white clouds. Mosaics can be made with ColorADD or Feelipa symbols, or the artist's own system such as pennies for copper and bottlecaps for silver. These are enormously popular among blind artists because they can glue down pieces and feel the art taking shape as they go along. However, some critics mock it as childish and clumsy, which has led to a lot of nasty arguments.
Feel and See Art is meant to be touched as well as seen. Some of it is made from rigid materials like glass that don't hold dirt easily, don't wear down fast, and can be cleaned without damage. Some is made from malleable media that harden, which are somewhat less durable, but still a lot better than things not designed for this purpose. Some is made from ephemeral media, most often the standard art supplies for professional or hobby use, with the intent of it wearing away over time. This is most popular among Asian artists who favor wabi-sabi aesthetics. Regrettably this spawned another appalling argument when critics condemned it as "Fall Apart Art" and Asian people sued them for A) defamatory remarks and B) racism. But it's really a values disagreement: some people think entropy is beautiful while others think it's ugly.
In T-America, the government provides extensive grants, subsidies, and other programs to make inclusive games, toys, and art supplies available to a wide range of people. Emphasis goes to stocking them in schools and for disabled individuals, free or cheap, but ideally they should be available to everyone. It helps that the National Endowment for the Arts has 100 times the budget in T-America that it does in L-America.
Paletta Creamy Dream Sculptural Paint Base
See Vada's flamenco dancer impasto in Creamy Dream.
Here is Shiv's lake picture impasto in Creamy Dream.
"You know me, I think there ought to be a big old tree right there. And let's give him a friend. Everybody needs a friend."
-- Bob Ross
This is Pavo's sailboat impasto in Creamy Dream.
A glitter path forms across a body of water as a low-lying light source reflects over its surface. Calm water leaves a smooth, narrow path while choppy water makes a wider path with more scattered fragments. Sunsets can show much about the sea's mood -- hence "Red sky at night, sailor's delight," although this painting shows a wide broken glitter path.
See Vada's impasto sunflowers with Paletta Hi-Loft.
See Pavo's impasto roses with Paletta Hi-Loft.
