Dreams On Canvas
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Sort Desciption: Dreams On Canvas By Paul D Ciuppa www.dreams-on-canvas.com Painting and creating with a brush and color. What a wonderful way to express yourself. You have an artists license to do just about ...
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Dreams On Canvas
By Paul D Ciuppa
www.dreams-on-canvas.com
Painting and creating with a brush and color. What a wonderful way to
express yourself. You have an artists license to do just about anything on
canvas. There are a lot of people that say "I cant paint", but you can.
When we were young and we all were at sometime, we painted with
crayons, chalk and all sorts of mediums. We loved it and did not care if the
blob we put on paper looked like a tree as we know it. To us it was a tree or
a house etc.
We did not care what other children thought or anyone else for that
matter. All we knew is that we were having fun and creating something
that looked like something in our minds. Well, now that we are all grown
up and mature, we cant paint or create anymore. It is childish and others
might not like the way my tree looks. Well, lose that attitude and be a child
again when you paint. Drawing, painting, whatever…. Just do it and dont
worry about what others think. Who knows, you might be the next
Rembrandt!
A nice way to start off is to get a nice sketch pad and take it wherever you
go. Draw and doodle everything. Dont get disgusted, just keep drawing.
You will eventually start to get the knack of it. You could pick up a book
on sketching what you see. We all look at objects everyday, but we really
dont see. You need to train the eye and brain to see. There are tons of
books on the market to help you through this.
You see, painting really starts off as a drawing with paint. Tone, color and
value are what makeup a good painting. Paint is only paint. It could never
be vase or an orange. It can only represent and fool the eye into thinking it
is those objects. If something is painted wrong, your eye and brain knows
it. You just cant put your finger on it, but it just doesnt look correct. The
artist or painters job is to make you think that what you are painting is the
object usi ...
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