Fine Art: Page 70

Learn how to use your camera (including how to choose an aperture setting) for blurring the background of portraits.

Check out tis video to learn how to paint a flowered cross in the traditional Japanese method of Sumi-e ink painting. This video shows how to paint within a cross using a mask.

In this tutorial Suellen Fowler shows you how to make a beautiful borosilicate glass spinning top with her characteristic hobnail pattern.

Check out this video to learn how to paint in acrylic paints. This video with Bob Davies is an introduction to acrylic painting.

Check out this video to learn how to score and cut straight lines in glass.

Check out this video to learn how to use the Diamond Max grinder to shape glass pieces for mosiacs, stained glass, or tiffany lamps.

Check out this video to learn how to use the Diamond Tech Power Max bit and disk grinder to smooth and grind glass for use in mosiacs and tiffany lamps.

Check out this video to learn how to use the power miter came saw to cut lead,copper, and brass came for stained glass projects.

Check out this video to learn how to use pattern shears to cut pattern for your next stained glass project.

Check out this video to learn to draw an anime face in side and 3/4 perspective for manga and comics.

Check out this video to see how to draw a head by building it out of random organic shapes.

Check out this video to learn how to draw bodies and torsos either digitally or the old fashioned way. I start with the spine and head and ribs and pelvis, then make the arms and legs and do it all very roughly. Then I make a body out of that. On paper I let it stay really rough and then I can trace over the good lines on a clean sheet. On computer it's easier by just using layers. I haven't had any formal training ( obviously ) so if you are good at figure drawing and could offer advice or...

Without perspective, drawings would never look realistic and would instead be flat, remedial depictions of reality. Luckily, the discovery of perspective during the Renaissance lets us simulate reality if we know the mathematical principles behind it.

Check out this video that will teach you how to make a double meaning sticker from reflective tape. The hidden message is barely visible with the naked eye but is illuminated with the flash of a camera.

2008 is the year of the mouse. Check out this video to learn how to paint a mouse in the traditional Japanese method of painting in ink called Sumi-e.

Check out this video to learn how to paint a dragon flower in the traditional Japanese method of ink painting called Sumi-e.

Check out this video to learn how to paint a Hydrangea in the traditional Japanese method of ink painting called Sumi-e.

Check out this video to learn how to make a ceramic mug by throwing the body on a potter's wheel.

Old T-shirts are usually relegated to our closets or heaped in piles to be donated to Goodwill, but even the frumpiest of T-shirts need not be discarded when you can repurpose it!

These are the basics for getting started airbrushing and custom painting for under 200$.