Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

John Ugoshowa asked:

Folk art auctions feature a wide range of objects that reflect the artist’s craft traditions, and traditional social values. Folk art is generally produced by people who have little or no academic artistic training. Folk artists usually use established techniques and styles of a particular region or culture.

Folk art auctions include paintings, sculptures and other decorative art forms. Some artists also consider utilitarian objects such as tools and costumes as folk art. For the most part, the category of folk art auctions exclude works by professional artists.

It has been my experience that folk art auctions have something for just about anyone. I found a folk art painting of a cat in a peach tree that was done by the artist Tascha. The artist also noted on the folk art auction that they create unique ceramic tile art.

My mother purchased a blanket chest for me years ago that I listed recently in a folk art auction. The chest was made about two hundred hears ago and is very beautiful. The original painted decorations are still intact.

I found an interesting folk art auction for a carnival knock-down dummy in the shape of a large cat. It was made around 1930 and is twice the size of similar items. I researched the item on a non-auction site and found that it is worth a lot of money.

My heart is still swayed by Americana folk art auctions. I recently fell in love with a painting I found up for auction of Elvis on a Harley in front of a large American flag. It was spectacular! The stretched canvas was painted with acrylics.

I especially like the Halloween themed folk art auction I found that was offered by Sister Raya New Orleans Folk Art. The title of the painting was Little Spooky the Cat – Awaiting the Great Pumpkin. The painting was painted in classic vintage style and used gold maple, red sapphire, blue pearl, white, pumpkin orange, sable brown, amber rust and jet black. I would love to have this hanging on my wall all through the autumn months.

Another folk art auction that I found and was sad to bid up past my budget was a handmade set of miniature dominos. The set was in a folk art decorated maple case. The set dates from the mid to late 1800’s. It was really exquisite and I’m sorry that I missed out on it.

I really liked another folk art auction that I found for a modern fraktur. A fraktur is a specific kind of Pennsylvania German folk art. The fraktur I found was a watercolor of a marriage record. It was very colorful and looked like it held very special significance to its original owners.

I found a wood box from Maine in a folk art auction that really appealed to me. It was rather small, but was painted chrome yellow and was trimmed in forest green. The paint was crazed and worn and it was made in the late nineteenth century. There were no visible nails and the hardware was reported as looking original.

The folk art auction that I missed out on that was way out of my price range was for an Andrew Clemens sand bottle. The sand bottle was date 1887 and was covered in patriotic decorations. It was an apothecary style bottle with a stopper and it contained at least ten different colors of sand. The bottle ended up selling for eighty five hundred dollars. I’m sure that it has ended up in an excellent collection of folk art.

I found an amusing folk art auction for three wooden carvings. The name of the piece was Three Articulating Folk Art Whimseys and were all made by the same artist. The carvings were accented with sheet metal neckties. The first carving in the folk art auction was of a cobbler, a blacksmith and a gentleman with a donkey. The second carving was a diminutive soldier and the third was a cobbler smoking a pipe. I think that this piece of Americana was purchased at a low price of three thousand dollars and was worth much more.onto a black light stand that has been built especially for them.

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beautyangle asked:

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Margaret Houghton asked:

 

BRSHLESS PAINTING

Many people would like to paint pictures. They go to art galleries where they see many different kinds of painings.

In some realist art the painting looks nearly like a photograph; the artist represents objects or scenes as he/she

 

sees them, namely, as the scene looks in reality.

Abstract art, the opposite to realist painting, can be anything from a canvas covered with only one colour, or a set of lines and squiggles and it might also be given a title such as “Man Fishing.” Thus the viewer must decide whether to try and see a picture of someone fishing, or just accept it as it is, abstract.  It might be a good idea to leave some of these paintings untitled, them  the viewer can see what he likes in the work.

 

In books written about art one invariably sees a photograph of a person standing at an easel on which there is a large canvas. The painter holds a paint brush and palette, while there are numerous tubes of different colored paints lying on a table.

 

An aspiring artist may go to an art store and look at the

vast quantity of artists’ materials available,  and also take a look at the prices of the canvas, paints, oils, painting medium, and, of course, the easel. Some people may feel overwhelmed by such a lot of materials needed to begin painting, besides the cost adding up to hundreds of dollars. Best go home and forget the idea of being a painter, much too expensive….but what a pity, if you have such a strong urge to paint.

 

At home you might just have the tools that a professional painter might use – yes, you better believe it! Check it out. Do you have rags, sponges, scourers, steel wool, cotton wool,

cotton buds, cardboard, bits of wood, sticks? Perhaps you have some of these items. Indeed you might throw some of them out every day as rubbish.

 

Now go into the garden and look at all the

different leaves, ferns, even flowers. You will also find there sticks – thin, thick, bits of bark.

 

Now go to the bathroom and find a nail brush, an old toothbrush, perhaps even an old razor. Look around the house for different odds and ends.

 

‘But why am I doing this?’ you might think to yourself.

Well, I guess the title of this little article caught your eye, didn’t it?  But how can you paint without brush?

 

 Get started. Take some paints, acrylic or water-based paints are best.  Get a jar or bowl of water, and some rags. Put together  a collection: a sponge, some cotton-wool, some steelwool, some cardboard, (any thickness), scissors, some tissue paper. That’s about enough for a start.

 

Now you have a few tubes of paint. The odds and ends you have gathered are the tools for using the paint.  But what are you going to paint on? Paper?  Canvas?

 

Cartridge paper is good to begin with, if you’re using paper, it’s about the right thickness. Canvas or some other material needs to be stiff. A coat of starch would probably do the job, or even a coat of white acrylic paint. Leave that one til later. Choose the size of the paper, perhaps cut it to the size you want

 

Work on a table,  a bench or even on the floor.

Squeeze some paint onto – a plastic icecream container lid, a saucer,  something flat anyway. Now you’re ready to go.

 

Choose one of your ‘tools’, dip it into the paint and press it onto the paper.  Make different shapes with it. Try another tool and another colour paint. Scrape, swirl, dab, drag along.

Experiment with how much paint to use. Use a little water with it, not too much. Put one colour on top of another.

 

When you’re satisfied with your ‘painting’ clean up: wash tools (probably the rags or wood) for next time, or throw them away, and find different ones. Leave your work to dry. Frame it if you like. But you probably need to do quite a few ‘works’  before you want to frame any.  Eventually you will find a style of painting you like to do, and also the colour combinations you prefer. It takes some practice before you feel really satisfied with what you are doing. Keep on going!

Happy painting.

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M S Nath asked:

Art is a creating plan and some excellent ideas.Nowadays,many people are using online shoppings everyday activities that are completed outside the home, and many people are using internet for buying household items.

The online shopping experience not only provides bargain prices and another plus is the huge selection of other Internet shopping choices. For example, you can obtain discount coupons, handy clearance item savings, additional deals and exceptional bargains, including exciting rollback price tags. Rollback price tags can literally save you tons of money for identical items offered at the offline product stores.

Entertainment:

The music, voices,video games and fun stories based in strong unchanging human emotions- have stood the test of time, but in this media stuffed, fast-paced, screen-age of computer games, high-octane entertainment and attention deficiency can you inject new life into an ancient art form to make it relevant to a whole new audience?

Jewelry :

The Part of the amazing charm about jewelry is just how easy it can be for someone to sit down and learn the basic skills of jewelry making in a matter of a few hours. As any jeweler will tell you, creating jewelry is one of those skills that only takes a few minutes to learn, but a lifetime to master!And while making jewelry pieces is fun and even easy at times, actually selling the pieces and building a business with clients and customers can be rather difficult, especially if you’ve never been a salesperson or run a business before.

Home Decorating:

Given the number of television shows out there that are devoted to home decorating and home remodeling, making your surroundings more comfortable is a popular hobby. And when someone mentions home-improvement it often brings a pictures in your mind of Interior designers and contractors, you can do some excellent things by picking up a thread and needle instead of a hammer and nails.

Kids specials:

coloring pages will help develop their physical and psychological attributes, such as finger dexterity, eye-hand coordination, concentration and determination to complete a given task. All these things are integral parts of the child’s development, and you will notice that children who have been using coloring pages from an early age not only tend to be more artistic and creative, but These are, obviously, a wonderful and constructive activity to keep your kids busy with, and to give you a chance to be slightly at ease and relax for some time, rather than chasing them around the house in harried frenzy. They also provide you with a chance to bond well with your kid, and give them something to look forward to everyday. The can learn so much through various kinds of coloring pages – whether they are based on fact or fantasy, for both are a source to learn from; basic universal particulars from fact, and morals and values from fantasy. And learning is not the only thing, either. Kids who use coloring pages frequently are more efficient at applying learnt knowledge in real-life situations.

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