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Leonard Knight P. O. Box 298 Niland, California, U.S.A. 92257-0298
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When you first start your art piece, you should just paint that first thing that comes up in your mind. Then after this, you can develop this idea more and then you will have your art piece. Some artists take a year to finish them and others can take just one hour or even minutes. Also make sure that you have all the materials that you need before you start to paint. If you are using watercolors, you must have enough water in then paint so it can give you that texture. If you have anything else besides water colors, you must look at your painting before you let it dry. Try to always leave your area clean because then if you make a mess, you will have a hard time to paint well. Also when you are painting, keep the following things in mind. On of the first things is that there are no rules in art and if you think that a piece is done, then it’s done. Another thing that you should keep in mind is that if you want to show things that collapse with each other, try to make the shapes smaller at the back and at the front a bigger shape. Like this, the picture would look more dimensional and also try to keep some things constants and other changes it up. I can’t tell you to paint a certain way but I can tell you some skills to be better. And remember there are really no rules when it comes to express your ideas and imagination. By the way, this is knowledge that I know and other I have been taught at school. If you guys have any questions, contact me!! I hope that this was helpful and motive your to make your own art pieces.
This person was really helpful to me to understand some of the things behind art. One of the answers that really stroke out was when she said that there is not perfect art or that there are not rules when it comes to art. I think that this is some really important words for a person that is starting to become and artist. Knowing this, many people can paint freely and they would not be afraid to develop their ideas. She works in the
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Have you ever wonder if you can make your own paint? The answer to this is yes. Paint is made out of three things: water, binder, and pigments. According to www.nachi.org paint is “A combination of pigments with suitable thinners or oils to provide decorative and protective coatings.” This is what artist use to paint. When I made paint, they thought that I was going to try to make watercolors but they were wrong. This type of paint is very toxic when it dries up because you can inhale that and you can get damage. If you ever try to make any type of paint, you must be safe and try to not get to close to the dry paint. For example was Cobalt Blue and this is the chemical equation CoO · Al2O3 .This was first publish in 1803 or 1804 and to make this pigment all you need is Cobalt (II)-chloride and Aluminum chloride. Also can you believe that there were pigments a long time ago but back then they were more toxic than today. They would paint on walls from caves and stones. If you can go to some places, you can still see some one the art that they made.
http://wwar.com/masters/r/rothko-mark.html
http://rothkoart.com/biography.htm
In the year of 1957, there were a lot of things that was going on with artist like Mark Rothko and history. To start off, World War ll was over and everyone was trying to get in better conditions and try to get over of the people that they lost. This was one of the worst wars there was because there was a lot of people dying, but I mean I know that in every war, many soldiers die. In this time, most of the artist decide to stop doing art of their own and try to draw of what was going on with the war and how bad it was. Many people then knew how they bad were the war and they knew that their relatives could never come back. What they knew was that they were going to the war and come back as heroes and everyone would give them respect and support them. What would really happen was that they would never come back again or they would be ill for their rest of their life because of what they saw in the battlefield. This is still true now days, they try to convince teens to go to war but some of us know who dangerous it is and don’t want to risk it. Others go to war and defend and they are proud to be a soldier. There is nothing wrong with that because I support the troops but they are risking their lives. Now for Mark Rothko, he was a painter for the war that just finish which was WWll and he was doing a good job after this time. After the war was over, he started to paint his dark side of him. After all of that he became depress and had alcohol problems with this later in the 1970, he died.
http://www.danielsmith.com/Articles/Guide-to-Pigments.asp
http://www.missing-lynx.com/rare_world/rw05.htm
http://history-world.org/stone_age1.htm
(The link above is for the history of the Paleolithic time)
We always hear the word pigment and we really never hear when this around was. Pigments were around since the Paleolithic time which was the era was our first ancestors were alive. This is when they say that there was the first wheel and the first stone tools. They were trying to mix things up and they found this way of mixing pulverized minerals and charcoal. They would paint on their caves and this paint have been there for over than 30,000 years. Back then, the pigments that they had were not that well when it came to the texture of it and also the color that you would get. As the years have been going, there have been better pigments with their colors and also now they sell then when back then they didn’t, most people would make them. Also there are some pigments that are from natural earth and they are umbers and siennas. Others like cadmium colors are not natural because they have somewhat different mixtures and they are manufacture differently. So now you know that pigments have been here for along time and yet they are still use now days.
Pigments are essentially coloured powder, and they are use to be mix with binders and water to make paint. Some of the types that can be coloured are acrylics, chalks, coloured pencils, oils, and others. These are the things that you would mix with the powder. When you mix all of this, you would get paint. Some paints are faster to dry than others. For example,
http://www.geocities.com/geldof_99/w_w2.html
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2004/rothko/rothko_ss.shtm
http://www.atypon-link.com/GPI/doi/abs/10.1521/jaap.30.1.17.21984?
In this website, it talks about how Mark Rothko had a very hard childhood and this is what caused his suicide. He experience early losses from his family. They don’t say who he lost but it was someone that was very meaningful to him because from that day and one, he was depressed and not that mentally well. I am not saying that he was crazy but that he was not well because he was alone and it was hard growing up without that person. When a kid is growing up and there isn’t that much love in his family, then he grows up to not be that loving or happy person. This is not for all people but it was in this case. He didn’t get marry or he didn’t have any relationships when he killed himself because he would also have attitude issues and he would just start to scream. He would scream because he didn’t want to hear what people were saying and this cause the women not to date him or get near him. He was always depressed and no wonders why his art was usually dark and not that complex because maybe this is how he felt with his life. This is the background of why he suicide himself.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/powerofart/rothko.shtml
This is a website that I thought gave good information on the artist Mark Rothko. This website said that he was born in
http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/intro1.shtm
This website has information on an artist name Mark Rothko. He lived from the years of 1903 through 1970. I really didn’t know anything about him but sometimes when you just look at their painting, you can get a lot of information from it. Here on the left is a picture of his art and you can notice that his art piece is with lines and colors. Most or all of his art pieces are lines or shapes with colors. I wonder why he decided to have only lines with different type of color. Maybe he was a person like me that doesn’t know how to draw that well and only draws lines. When I saw his paintings, I thought that this really helped out to me because I thought to myself, I can’t draw and seeing this person’s art made me feel better. So if you are one of those people that think that they can’t draw, maybe it would be a good idea for you to look at some of the artist pieces (not just Mark Rothko) and see how their art is made. Also if you were wondering what type of mood is Mark’s art, it is Abstract Expressionism and most the pictures might be similar to the other ones but he just uses different type of color. Also I think that some people think that art is something drawn to perfection but in reality art can be anything that combines colors and shapes or actual things.
http://webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/index.html
This is a website that talks about how pigments have been around through the years. They also mention that before the normal and basic pigments were made out of dirt or clay and now days they are made with chemicals. They are made out of different chemicals but yet there are some articles that say that pigments are not toxic. Now days, you can make better and more colorful pigments than back then. The first drawings that were made were the ones in a cave that our ancestors would draw. These drawings were painted with pigments made out of dirt, charcoal mixed or animal fatness. This was the only pigment that would stay there because the fatness of the animal would stick there when it would dry up. Also this web talks about how people in the ancient would put over someone’s body red pigment because this would mean that their life was over.
I would like to know your opinion of what art means to you. Is art just shapes or does it mean something else to you? Post a comment and I want to know what are your opinions!