2012年5月9日星期三

Russian artist Konstantin Makovsky (1839-1915) oil paintings

Russian artist Konstantin Makovsky (1839-1915) oil paintings















Russian famous oil paintings artist Ivan Kramskoi and his famous oil paintings



Russian famous oil paintings artist Ivan Kramskoi(1837-1887) and some of his famous oil paintings

Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi was a famous Russian artist.His portrait oil paintings the Portrait of an Unknown Woman was famous to the worldwide. He was the intellectual leader of the Russian democratic art movement 1860–1880. He was from a poor petty-bourgeois family. From 1857 to 1863 he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts; he reacted against academic art, and he was an initiator of the "revolt of fourteen" which ended with an expulsion from the Academy of arts of its graduates, who organized Artel of Artists.

Under the influence of ideas of the Russian revolutionary democrats Kramskoi asserted representation about a high public duty of artist, principles of realism, moral substance and a nationality of art. He became one of the main founders and ideologists of Company of Mobile Art Exhibitions (or Peredvizhniki). He created gallery of portraits of the largest Russian writers, scientific, artists and public figures (portraits: Leo Nikolayevitch Tolstoy, 1873, Ivan Shishkin, 1873, Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, 1876, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, 1879—all in Tretyakov Gallery in which expressive simplicity of a composition, clearness of figure emphasize the leading part of the profound psychological characteristic. Democratic sights of Kramskoi found the brightest expression in portraits of the peasants who reflected sincere riches and internal advantage of the person from people
Share some of Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi oil paintings

Christ in the desert
Christ in the desert



Old Man with a Crutch
Old Man with a Crutch

Portrait of Alexander III
Portrait of Alexander III

Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Portrait of the painter Ivan Shishkin
Portrait of the painter Ivan Shishkin

The Mermaids
The Mermaids

2012年4月23日星期一

2012年4月19日星期四

Oil painting materials and some basic techniques

Oil painting materials can be divided into base oil painting material,oil paint,media oil painting material. base oil painting material is bearing paint pigment layer of backing material and coating. Oil paint is the direct expression of painting color and texture effects when drawing the main material. Media oil painting material is used to adjust the properties of pigments and substrate materials together,such as all kinds of Extenders, binders and Polish.

Masonry
Masonry method is to use a knife instead of a brush, like brick layers with mud plaster knife ring built to canvas a color directly to leave a scar. Masonry method can have different thickness of the layer change, knife knife for size and shape, and will also have a wealth of different contrast. Draw knife without taking a different color too much blending, let it naturally mixed on the screen can be subtle colour relationships. When the color change too much,it also can use the methods of masonry to build it.If masonry method used properly, it will have a very strong sense of shape
Scraper
It is the basic purpose of the painting knife scraper, scrape method is generally used the blade scrapes, the screen draws to be desired on the part, also use the knife to scrape the unnecessary detail or weaken the relationship of too strong.ISo picture relationship looks tensions relax,it is very suitable for the city oil paintings. Long-term job at the end of the day are often needed to finish this painting part of the color, use a knife to scrape the time for drying, next day art. Color can also be used after draw knife or razor shave rough flat. Also in color on the layer of wet shave with a knife, revealing background to show a variety of textures.
Coat
If the points drawing and sketching is a means to form a point and line of oil painting, coating is the main point of the oil painting. There are flat-coated, thick and thin film coating, etc,it also have a method called impressionistic color powder coating. Flat paint is the primary method of painting large areas of color, uniform coating is also a common technique of china oil painting reproductions. Thick coating is a painting from other art ~ the kinds of main features of, you can have some thickness and visible strokes of paint and texture formation. Very thick paint scraping to draw a knife or paint squeezed directly into the canvas, may be called James. Thin thin after lighten,then it is diluted with oil colors to paint pictures, can produce a transparent or semi-transparent effect. Powder coating is flexible, lively. Paint with rubbing sweep coating method, also called the Corona.
Pendulum
Paint directly on the canvas with a pen does not make any more changes on that swing, swing is one of the basic techniques of oil painting. Methods commonly used in oil painting at the beginning and end of the pendulum, with more color and certainly accurate strokes to find a relationship between color and form, often critical Department only a few can make the screen change, of course, write should do before knowing what to do to work.
Wipe
It is lying across the brush, brush the belly screen drum cleaning, usually, wiping large areas with less color, it can form does not clear the stroke, is also a commonly used method of bed layer. In the background or rolling on the texture of dry wiping technique can be used to draw a similar effect of the traditional Chinese painting in a style of calligraphy characterized by hollow strokes, make the texture more visible at the bottom.

2012年4月17日星期二

The hot and sudden rain days coming?

It is very hot these days and the rains are coming now and then.Oh,Good summer,or?
But enjoy it.