Painting

How to Paint a Guitar
A majority of guitar players opt to paint their guitar themselves. They do it just because it would give their guitar a different and unique appearance. This article concentrates on how to paint a guitar body, how to paint flames on a guitar, and how to paint a guitar sunburst.

How to Stretch a Canvas
Canvas is a heavy duty fabric which is popular for canvas painting. Those who are painters must know that stretching a canvas can be a tedious job. Here' s some help if you are wondering about how to stretch a canvas.

Canvas Painting Ideas
Are you stuck for new painting ideas? Just don’t be. Let us find some new ways to have great canvas painting ideas. Different from the usual paintings, they will hopefully inspire you to bring out some great artwork.

Ceiling Painting Tips
Painting ceiling is comparatively an easier task. Here is a step by step guide on how to paint ceiling yourself. Read on to know more about painting ceiling tips.

Eco Friendly Paint
Eco friendly paint was introduced in order to combat and reduce the use of paints, that have a toxic nature of components. The normally used paints have many visible environmental and health drawbacks. The following article describes some of the eco friendly paints, that are gaining widespread popularity. To know more about eco friendly paint, read on....

Restoration Hardware Paint
After we have used our home for many years, we suddenly realize one fine day, that the house has lost its original charm. Well, this situation can be pretty disturbing, especially if you love your house. One of the best ways to economically restore the old charm of the house, is to polish and again paint, all the hardware with the help of restoration hardware paint. To find out more about restoration hardware paint colors, read on...

Magnetic Paint for Walls
Magnetic paint for walls is a new product, which provides a magnetic surface to your rooms. With this magnetic wall paint, putting things up on the wall has become easier. This new product has become quite popular among people who like to decorate their walls with posters and other such stuff. Read on, to know more about magnetic wall paint and how it is applied.

Glass Painting Tips
Glass painting kits comprising of glass paints and outliners are easily available in stores today. The art of glass painting is not very complicated to learn, which is why it has become an interesting hobby across the globe. This article provides information on some glass painting tips.

Painting Popcorn Ceiling
Painting popcorn ceiling can have a visually stunning effect on a room's ambiance. This article is about how to paint popcorn ceilings. Popcorn ceilings or acoustical ceilings, give a unique texture to a living room roof. Painting them only enhances their beauty. Read on, to know more about painting a popcorn ceiling the right way.

Painting an Aluminum Boat
Painting an aluminum boat will not only give an attractive look to it but also help it to merge well with its natural surroundings. Let us find out how the process of painting an aluminum boat is carried out.

Spray Painting Tips and Techniques
Spray painting is a painting technique in which a spray paint gun is used to paint through air onto any surface. This article throws light on the basics of spray painting and different spray painting tips and techniques.

Painting Concrete Patios: Choosing Best Paint for Concrete Patio
Patios are an important component of the gardens. The best feature of the patios is that one can use it to relax and enjoy the beauty of the garden planted around it. The following article briefly describes the process of painting concrete patios and will also help you to select the best paint for your concrete patios.

Magnetic Chalkboard Paint
If you are wondering about a creative remodeling of your home, or business, then magnetic chalkboard paint gives you the right kind of solution. Here, in this article, I will present to you the endless possibilities of how and where to use magnetic chalkboard paint, in greater detail.

Airbrushing Tips and Techniques
Airbrushing is a type of painting done with the help of an airbrush, which is a handy tool. The article will guide you with airbrushing tips and techniques...

Painting Concrete Patios - How to Paint a Concrete Patio
The process of concrete patio painting is carried out in three steps i.e. cleaning, painting and sealing. In order to learn how to paint a concrete patio, one should follow the given steps.

Painting Aluminum Siding - How to Paint Aluminum Siding
When you look at the peeled, cracked and faded paint of aluminum siding, it must be making you upset. Do not worry and cheer up. The solution is painting the aluminum siding. Learn more about how to paint aluminum siding...

Spray Painting Safety
During spray painting, wearing safety glasses may feel like a nuisance, but these glasses can protect your eyes from the toxic chemicals in spray paints. Read on to know more about importance of spray painting safety.

Powder Coating: How to Powder Coat
Powder coating is a surface finishing method that makes the use of dry powder instead of liquid paint. Prior to application of dry powder, the metal surface should be cleaned and rinsed to remove dirt, oils and greases.

Instructions for Painting Over Wallpaper
Painting over wallpaper is a better option to redecorate a room. Here are some instructions that will help you to paint over wallpaper.

How to Paint Landscapes
Painting landscapes involves a formidable amount of passion, imagination and creativity. The color scheme and brush strokes are of vital importance, and go a long way in defining the final outcome of any such creation.

Significance of Lascaux Cave Paintings
Lascaux is located to the south-west of France. The site has earned international fame as a tourist hot-spot for its prehistoric cave paintings. Situated near the village of Montignac, the Upper Paleolithic art is estimated to be a good 15,000 years old...

Wild Animal Art
Wild animal art, though not very new to human beings, is loved by many people and can be seen everywhere with their cameras capturing the beautiful sites of wild life.

Painting Tips and Techniques
Painting your room can turn out to be a fun and inexpensive affair if you plan it the right way. Read on for some useful painting tips and techniques that can help to clear some doubts which may have fogged your mind.

Nose Art
Nose art is nothing but a few quotations, pictures or even a catchy name described on the nose of the aircraft…

Elements of Art
Knowing the basics of the elements of art can help any artist to create a well-balanced and beautiful work of art. Here are the basics about elements of art that can be followed to create your own expression, no matter the medium you choose.

Paint Sprayers: Spray Painting Equipment and Booths
Read on to know more about spray painting, spray painting equipment and spray painting booths…

Batik Art Designs: Paintings, Fabric, Process and Techniques
There are several theories based on the origin of Batik. The Batik art designs have found their way into the lives of many. Read on to know more about this extremely popular form of art.

Leonardo da Vinci - The Last Supper Painting
Read on to find out more about Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting, The Last Supper…

L.S. Lowry - British Painter
He used to carry along a sketchbook on his work rounds and every time something interesting caught his eye, he would stop and make a quick sketch.

An Art With Aroma - Coffee Painting
Next time you would say "Waiter, I need coffee with water, a brush and nice canvas". Here are glimpse on using coffee as painting medium.

New Technology Advances Paint A Bright Picture For The Internet Art Market
What are the latest technological tools that make the online art market easier to tap into? Whether it is a consumer looking to buy an art piece or an individual artist or art gallery trying to increase sales, a growing technological trend is allowing art to be sold more effectively and efficiently online. As you might imagine, it takes much more than just listing a few art pieces on a website.

Coffee Paintings - 100% Pure Coffee Art
Coffee is a fascinating medium to form art. It is quite successful experiment using Coffee to get the old-look effect in your painting. It is all about using pure coffee, water and your brush. Coffee painting produces everlasting shining. Uniqueness achieved by coffee painting cannot be delivered by any other medium.

Painting - Safety First
Safety first when painting or doing any decorating work has to be the most important objective.

House Painting Ideas that Add Character to Your Homes
It is established that colors influence us emotionally. Our outlook may vary like the colors of a room. Painting the exterior areas is the finest way to create colors in the home. The process of discerning how colors instigate our disposition is to establish how colors correlate to one another.

How to Restretch a Canvas
Learn how to restretch a canvas which has became loose with this easy to follow step by step guide.

James Rosenquist: A Famous American Pop Art Artist
James Rosenquist's creations are a great inspiration to the younger generation of artists of the present century. Though classified among the exponents of Pop Art, Rosenquist wasn't bothered about fitting into any particular classification of art. Nevertheless, his utilization of popular and recognizable imagery in a strange manner remains one of the most representative techniques of Pop Art.

Green Painting & Low VOC Paint
The article presents green painting tips and an explanation of low VOC paints. Examples are presented as to how one can safely dispose and store paint along with other useful tips for painting and environmentally friendly paint choices.

Billionaire Takes Tate Works to Moscow
112 oils and watercolors transported to Pushkin museum for exhibition aimed at thawing frosty UK/Russia relations

Enrique Flores: Philanthropic Oaxacan Artist has the Golden Touch
Enrique Flores, one of the most prolific contemporary Mexican artists, has a knack for knowing what art aficionados want. Of course, having been mentored by masters of Mexican art such as Morales, Tamayo and Toledo hasn't hurt.

Creating Distance in a Landscape Painting
Short article on how to creat distance and interest in a painting.

How to create Reflections in a Painting
A how to create interest in a painting by making reflections that look awesome but also real.

The Painter and His Painting: On Constraints In the Creative Act
Three major constraints have led artists to abandon traditional easel painting.

The Frame Makes the Painting - the Importance of the Setting For Artwork
The frame is an important element needed to be taken into account when appreciating art.

Celebrity Painters
Celebrity painters: famous contemporary actors and musicians who paint.

European Painting - An Outdated Concept
As globalization furthers the old ideas of regional styles in art become obsolete.

Can you trust images of art on the Web? Buying art on the Internet
Images on the Internet are most of the time manipulated. Beware when buying art on the web.

Renaissance Portraits in Deruta Ceramics
This article is about Perugino's and Pinturicchio's influence on portrait painting in Deruta ceramics.

In Paintings By Monet and Manet We See How Men's Hobbies Begin
Ian Jack: Britain invented the steam railway, but France has better pictures and more skillful engineers

Hitler Owned Painting Now in National Gallery
Cupid Complaining to Venus hung on the sitting-room wall of the dictator's flat in Munich

One Hundred Paintings of Solitude
Sergej is an action painter in an age of for-hire artisanship, he is an expressionist, bucking the trends of modernism, abstract and otherwise. He splurges paint from his tubes all over the (usually largish) canvass and then dives into it, fingers and soul.

Armed Gang Flee Museum With Paintings Worth £80m Hanging Out of Car Boot
Impressionist paintings stolen from Swiss museum in daylight heist

Picasso Paintings Stolen From Swiss Gallery
Two Picasso paintings worth millions of pounds stolen from art gallery in Switzerland, police have revealed

Landscapes Still Life Portrait Commissions Too Scary? Be a Pollack
One thing I would do to get over fear of painting, and this is not exclusive to oils, is be a Jackson Pollack for the day. You can still slather on the paint to create pictures of cats, drawings of scorpions or fantasy fairies, just be loose about it. No pressure for realism.

Fine Art Paintings and Reproductions - Am I Ready To TakeThat Step?
Knowing whether or not one has a marketable product takes some trial runs, at craft fairs, local galleries, stuff like that. Marketing fine art is a whole different ball game from just being a hobbyist. Ya gotta start with some caution...

Create a Painting of your Pet and make it your own Masterpiece
Turn your pet picture into a painting. Imagine that pictures of your beloved pet are transformed into a work of art. Home PC's and the evolution of software and inexpensive printers expands the capabilities for even the home user making this a possibility.

How to Make Your Pencil Drawings More Effective
Discover simple tricks and tips the improve the quality of your paintings. Easy to follow tips anyone can do.

Tanjore Painting
Tanjore painting is an important form of classical South Indian painting native to the town of Tanjore in Tamil Nadu. The art form dates back to the early 9th Century, a period dominated by the Chola rulers, who encouraged art and literature.

Singing the Praises of Charcoal
Discover why charcoal portraits is important for the artists. Explanation about this type of painting technique.

Choosing The Right Framing Of Paintings
Discover what are frames and different types of frames. These are technical details about painting, explained in easy way.

Priceless Paintings Stolen at Gunpoint From Nice Museum
Armed robbers have stolen four priceless works of art - including a Monet - in a brazen daylight raid on a French museum.

Painting By Numbers
Super-rich collectors are distorting the art market, and our public galleries cannot afford to compete. By Charlotte Higgins

Joseph Radoccia After Madagascar: Interview
Each painting is a map of a moment, a life`s work becomes a map of a time period, a life. Such an honest map serves some sort of informative purpose in the timeline of history, excerpts from interview.

The Great Art Con
I certainly do not claim to be an expert on art, but I am no philistine either. But I readily admit to a sense of bewilderment when I see someone go into raptures over a canvas which has squiggly lines and shapeless blobs.

Art Lesson: Learn About Color Schemes for Your Next Painting
This article will talk about five different color schemes you can use to plan out your next painting.

Chagall Art and War
Discusses Chagall art during the first and second world wars, with details about his painting Crucifixion.

The Presence of Religion in Marc Chagall Paintings
Discusses the presence of Religion in Marc Chagall paintings.

Artist and Sculptor Sol Lewitt Dies
Sol LeWitt, known for his dynamic wall paintings and a founder of minimal and conceptual art styles, has died in New York aged 78.

Fine Art Paintings and Beautiful Older Women Galleries
I lean toward opportunities, beautiful older women and their galleries of age - ageless. The Universe does smile on them and hands them notes in the hallway.

Missing Cézanne to Go on Display
A painting by the French master Paul Cézanne, not seen in public for more than 60 years, has been rediscovered in Italy.

The Unseen Goya Painting of the Boy Who Halted the Spanish Inquisition
Revealed: Canvas hanging in private for 200 years is unveiled - Child subject grew up to be a famous cardinal

Exotic Lap Dancing Paintings, Offended? Why? pt. two
"There is 'nothing' there to see, what IS IT that you think you are seeing," Censorship revisited in part two.

Exotic Lap Dancing Paintings, Offended? Why? pt. one
I wonder what it is about the subject of erotica that drives people wild in the negative sense. We should all take the time to know why we think the way we do and how to back up those feelings no matter what they are.

Pleasure and Lust In Painting My Passions
Without passion there is no air for the artist to breath.I slaughter the ruins you so easily left weeping. I ended their misery... and later on today I will paint it all.

Goya Painting Stolen in Country Road Hijack
A meticulous road hijack operation succeeded in stealing a 228-year-old Goya painting before it reached its destination in New York.

An Artists Journey of Color and Mood
This is a journey of sorts from one frame of mind to another and the colors and moods that guided me. I describe three paintings and their process.

The Steps Involved with Exterior House Painting Preparation
An over view of the steps involved when preparing a home exterior for painting.

Dismay As German Painting is Sold Abroad
· Work hid artist's family tragedy under Nazis · £2.1m canvas depicts victim of euthanasia

How to use a Paintbrush
Most of us like to draw and paint. Some of us are professional in the business while some of us just paint for fun. Whatever the reason may be, every painting requires a paintbrush with a different appeal.

Painting books for beginners and professionals
Painting Books consists of some beautiful and decorative paintings. Today you can find many painting book outlets providing some wonderful painting books.

Types of Painting Books
Painting Books consists of some beautiful and decorative paintings. If you are an artist it will definitely help your cause.

What you need to know about a paint brush?
Most of us like to paint different things. Some of us are professional painters while some of us just paint for fun. If you are serious about the subject it’s very important that you have some knowledge about the different types of paint brushes.

Glass Painting – Paint on glass
Glass painting is currently one of the fastest growing crafts in UK. The subject glass painting is so vast that one can just go on writing about it...

Tips and Techniques For Colored Pencil Artists
This article will introduce some basic techniques as well as provide some great tips for beginner colored pencil artists.

Free Art Instruction - Portrait Painting Tips & Techniques
If you are just getting into portrait painting,then you will find this article on portrait painting tips helpful.

£20m Art Theft Riddle Solved in Court
· Art Loss Register helps recover stolen paintings · US heir in 30-year limbo as art moved around globe

Home Painting Tips
Some quick pointers on pointing your own home. Relax, you can do it!

Toulouse-Lautrec Painting Sets Record at Auction
An early painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has set the auction record for his work, selling to an anonymous buyer for $22.4m (£13m) at Christie's in New York.

Art Schools
Art schools offer many type of study, such as painting, sculpture, graphic design, and illustration. Here are some tips to help you get into an art school and the links below offer more information and resources.

Catholic Dissent Over Mystery of the Pregnant Madonnas
Italian author claims paintings are linked to suppression of Knights Templar.

The Basics of Collecting Art: Fine Painting
Third in a series to assist those who love art & fine craft to make a purchase or add to a beginning collection.

The Emptiness in Edward Hopper's America Never Went Away
The paintings of Edward Hopper evoke an emptiness that is still pervasive in American everyday life, says Jonathan Jones.

Missing Freud Turns Up in Garage
A Lucian Freud painting worth $1.5m (£890,000) destined to adorn the walls of an Manhattan gallery ended up in a garage in downtown New York this week after two cargo handlers at John F Kennedy airport allegedly stole it from a warehouse.

Modigliani Sells for £16m
Modigliani's 1917 painting Reclining Nude (On her Left Side) has sold for a record $26.8m (£16m) at a New York auction, according to Christie's. The work was one of several in a collection of 19th and 20th century masterpieces owned by casino developer and art collector Stephen A...

Heaven Sent Magritte Painting Bails Out Redundant Airline Staff
A painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte commissioned in 1965 by his country's national airline, Sabena, has proved of real benefit to the now bankrupt company's 12,000 former employees.

Recovered paintings feared damaged
The three stolen paintings which were found today following an anonymous tip-off may have been severely damaged by rain, police said.

Modern Science Ruins Prehistoric Art
Science is now failing where the caveman's instinct triumphed. After surviving undisturbed for 20,000 years, the prehistoric wall paintings at Lascaux in central France are threatened with irreparable damage by modern man's attempts to save them. When the caves were discovered in 1940 by...

Stolen Turners rescued in Tate's secret deal
The Tate spent £3.5m on an extraordinary cloak and dagger operation to return two of its greatest paintings by JMW Turner stolen from a German art gallery eight years ago, it emerged yesterday.

Priceless Rubens works stolen in raid on mansion
Fourth art raid on philanthropist's home once targeted by the IRA and Dublin gangster Martin Cahill. A set of priceless paintings, including two by the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens, was yesterday stolen from a country house in Ireland - just days after works stolen last year were returned to its collection.

Thieves Sneak $5m Paintings Out of Hollywood Gallery
Two murals by the American painter Maxfield Parrish, valued at around $5m, have been stolen from a California art gallery.