A day in Jinga – Jinja, Uganda
Jump to the full entry & travel map Jinja, Uganda Hey all wow on a proper internet cafe where the internet is so much quicker and Skype works whoooo!! coming on a Boda boda on your own was daunting at first but really it was fine, the giys are friendly really, they just want your money they realy dont want trouble, it was a comfortable fine journey. awesome to talk to home and speak to family, glad everything is well apart from lloydy of course, i’ve sent him a message saying im thinking of him. Yesterday was the last day of painting at the school for a week and last day of getting more red stain and yellow stain of paint on my clothes, thank goodness, i actually washed my clothes yesterday in a wash basin, all my clothes were stiff and hard as rock after but they sorta feel clean, but where we’re based in Bujagli its red dust evrywhere and my washing line didnt stay up too wel so in fact my clothes got worst before i cleaned them, good times!! One member left, Tom and two new arrived Helen and Johnny, two mates in a break before they both start work, awesome peeps it seems im still the youngest which is cool in a way cos i find out all these different aspects of uni and also gap years, cos they havew travelled before i went to the market today which was kinda grotty and finding a cardigan or a jumper was just impossible!! though leaving it at heathrow airport was not a good one of my plans
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A day in Jinga – Jinja, Uganda
… elvet curtains, painted walls, fleet-footed as deer with the hounds at their heels….“I didn’t think Master Holbein painted whores….“You know that was never my intent,” he says at last, trying for gentleness, but she moves past him and tugs the drape back into place, hiding the painting f rom view….” She addresses the painting again, the warmth in her cheeks portentous of some self-made victory, some anticipated pleasure that she almost visibly luxuriates i n as she continues…. Original post: ‘Trick of the Light’ 4/?
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‘Trick of the Light’ 4/?
Unlike most of my pieces, which are typically composed and begun in a matter of hours or days, the paintings in the series of Last Meals take much longer (no pun i ntended) to execute….While I photograph the leftovers immediately following the meal, it is often several weeks before I gain sufficient distance to formalize the composition and actually b egin painting…. More here: New Last Meal Painting Finally on the Easel
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New Last Meal Painting Finally on the Easel
Oil Painting: Solvents and Resins Solvents are added to oil paints to temporarily change the way they work and are designed to evaporate evenly and totally as the oil paint dries. (Technically, the more correct term is diluents, as not all are solvents, but it’s not the term commonly used.) Solvents are also used to dissolve resins, making mediums , cleaning up, and for cleaning brushes. It is essential to use solvents in a well-ventilated room and remember that they are flammable (catch fire easily)
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Oil Painting: Solvents and Resins
I couldn’t paint a straight line to save me….I have lived in my new apartment for two months now, have spent countless hours painting the bathroom, and it was just yesterday that I noticed that the tiles on t…I needed to contact an Emergency Spackling Consortium before I could even THINK of applying primer which would THEN enable me to paint my bathroom but ONLY if I got t he right level of eggshell semi-gloss….THEN I painted my little bathroom Van Deusen Blue…. Originally posted here: Behold and Lo
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Behold and Lo
Less than three weeks ago, a forest fire whipped through this timber stand just outside a municipal park near Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Firefighting airplanes, helicopters, firetrucks and ground crews kept the fire from jumping the highway and destroying the RV park on the other side of the road. There were people camped in tents in the area, too, so it was very fortunate that no one was hurt, and the remnants of the fire were put out after several days. And now, not even twenty days afterwards , the roots of these trees are sending out new shoots and greenery in the midst of what looks like destruction. There’s a moral here: Even if you suffer total disaster, if you have firmly grounded roots, you can regrow and grow stronger from the ashes of what surrounds you
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New Life from the Ashes
After some more work on my car I maneged to paint a little as well even better I discovered a whole new painting ground !!! A modern ships-yard with all kind of modern yachts but on the other side of it there are all kind of old yachts as well, many of them are in restoration and that’s even more fun to paint!! Soo you can expect some more of this site. This one wasn’t that funny, just when I was started and had some block inn stuf done
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"Bullie." Lathum, Holland.
It was very impressive to see this beautiful old painting by a very famous artiste….One last incredible piece of sculpture that I had the pleasure to see was “Winged Victory” I love both paintings and sculptures, but I tend to study sculptures more b… See the rest here: http://thegreatpre-retirementadventures.blogspot.com/2009/07/here-i-am-enjoying-pain-de-chocolat-at.html
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Cape Cod has long attracted artists who paint landscapes on site, known by the French phrase, en plein air. It started with The Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown (sometimes mis-called “the school of light” by locals) established by Charles Hawthorne in 1899 and taken over by Henry Hensche in 1935. It was the first art school in the United States to concentrate on painting outside Go here to see the original: Painting the Cape: Since 20th century artists drawn to the unique light (The Falmouth Bulletin)
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Painting the Cape: Since 20th century artists drawn to the unique light (The Falmouth Bulletin)
If there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, what would I find at the end of a double rainbow? I really don’t know, because I was too taken up looking at the rainbow itself to attempt a trek into the thick woods beside this groomed lawn. Wouldn’t you do the same? . Double Rainbow Oil on canvas, 5″ x 7″, signed and dated This painting is available for sale – $100. USD – shipping extra Inquiries email mavis.penney@gmail.com www.mavispenneystudios.com Visit “Off the Highway” our “100 Days 100 Paintings” blog to see more landscapes from Labrador, Canada and Nebraska, U.S
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Double Rainbow
While I should be focused on writing the paper I am presenting at the Arts in Society conference in Venice in exactly two weeks, I am continually side-tracked by what is becoming an all consuming concern of how does a relatively new small gallery survive in the new economy? I have watched three other galleries close in my east side neighbourhood over the past few months: Ninette Gyorody’s Studio Nine Gallery on Queen St East, Svava Juliusson’s LIST Gallery on the Danforth, and a gallery on Pape at Danforth
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Art Galleries in the New Economy
Jump to the full entry & travel map Nederland, Colorado, United States We escaped the heat to Darren’s family’s cabin in Switzerland Park in the mountains west of Boulder. Darren broke in his new mountain bike with four straight days of biking near the cabin at West Magnolia, Sourdough, and a portion of the Switzerland Trail. When Kristi didn’t tag along to bike, she had some time to practice painting on the cabin porch.
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Cabin at Switzerland Park, Colorado – Nederland, Colorado, United States
Frank Brangwyn carpet design 1930 Frank Brangwyn is probably better known as a fine artist, but throughout his career he was drawn towards the decorative arts, as well as his own fine art work. He produced design work in stained glass, furniture, glass, metal, ceramic, jewellery, tapestry and carpet, as well as designing interiors and exhibition spaces and producing a number of murals
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Frank Brangwyn and the Decorative Arts
I also plan to turn some of these images into separate posters and paintings….I’m not sure if the one on the top left is a simlish version of a real painting (Art is not my forte), but I recognized the other four!…I’ve finished extracting all the Sims 3 paintings/posters/random textures for a new set of Simlish Bulletin Boards (someone requested that at ModTheSims)….My favorite hands down is the “Girl with a Pearl Earring” painting…. View original here: Ultimate Simlish Art
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Ultimate Simlish Art
Jump to the full entry & travel map Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Hi all, Even though it’s been 2 weeks since my last blog I think this one will be short as all I’ve been doing for the last 2 weeks is partying hard with an amazing crew of people…. so a lot of what went on was just in-jokes that nobody outside the group would get (and what happens on tour stays of tour of course!)…. and a lot of it is an alcoholic haze….
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2 weeks of beach and partying carnage in Thailand – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Jump to the full entry & travel map xiangcheng, Sichuan, China We took a mini-bus from Litang around 8am, the price was 70 RMB and the trip five hours long. On the bus we met a friendly British couple, who were on their way trough Sichuan – Yunnan provinces and then down to Vietnam. On the way to Xiangcheng we met three Tibetan guys and their race horses, the driver asked them to race for us which they gladly did
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Xiangcheng – on the way to Shangri-la – xiangcheng, Sichuan, China
I can’t count how many times we’ve run across something in the house and wondered what someone was thinking when they installed/painted/did said thing….The floors are done!!!!! Unfortunately these photos don’t capture how incredible the floors make the house feel – they combined with the painting make it feel like a new house….The only medicine cabinet we liked came in natural wood, so I painted that while Curtis installed the light fixture and a new faucet….We spent a lot of the weekend in the bathroom which needed a significant amount of work. First we painted – chose a soft gray….
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Progress
Jump to the full entry & travel map Colon, Cebu City, Philippines Cebu, the first city I’ve ever seen in the Visayas, always surprises me with something new — an avant-garde bridge, a luxurious mall, a swanky hotel or what have you — whenever certain occasions lead me to visit this boom town; all of them impressive testaments to the progress sweeping the metropolis that reinforce its reputation as the undisputed Queen City of the South. That’s why I still look forward to the next visit even if I’ve been there for countless times during the last ten years
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Caught Up With Cebu’s Glorious Past – Colon, Cebu City, Philippines
It was Marc Jacobs, this season Louis Vuitton Handbags in the design of the integration of the artist Richard Prince, as some of the guide, the painting of the artist’s…A few years ago, LOUIS VUITTON and artists to launch the Cherry swept the fashion pack, which also brands in cooperation with the artists in the course of a taste o f sweetness…. Read the original post: A collection of Louis Vuitton Handbags for fashion lovers
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A collection of Louis Vuitton Handbags for fashion lovers
I created this by first gessoing the cover, then painting it black with a little azo gold glaze mixed in….I used that blue painter’s tape (stuck it to my clothes first to de-stick it a bit) and chalk ink. This is one of my fave pages….So, I began by blobbing on tiny dots of paint on one page and smacking the 2-page spread together, then pulling apart….Some people did exactly what was instructed in the book and had some messy accidents, because we were supposed to dilute the paint a lot with water….
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more decorated pages…