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News Letter #6 - July, 2002 |
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Hello from Tony, Wow, it's July, the month of summer vacations, cookouts, family fun, trips to the beach and another website update. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Art Quote of the Month: Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. -Degas ----------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS AND NOTICES: Would you like to learn Portrait Painting Techniques? ( read more) Special Liquidation Sale now at A-n-C in Lecanto! ( read more) Special offer on my instructional painting packets ( read more) Tips & Bits questions and answers #10 - #15 ! ( read more) Going North this summer? Don't stop painting!.. ( read more) Tony is AVAILABLE for SUMMER FUN and LEARNING. ( read more) Miss out on previous News,Notices or Newsletters? ( read more) ----------------------------------------------------------------- IN THE SPOTLIGHT: This month I honor a very special artist / instructor that has taught me so much about painting, teaching and life, Master Artist and Seascape specialist, Buck Paulson. ( read more ) ----------------------------------------------------------------- COMING SOON: If you are interested in learning portrait painting be sure to check in next month as I hope to have a SPECIAL OFFER on an easy-to-follow video tape series by a professional portrait artist friend of mine. ----------------------------------------------------------------- INTERESTING "ART-I-FACT" OF THE MONTH: "Palette History" An artists "palette" is an implement on which the painter holds, mixes and stores paint colors. Originally artists used seashells of various types to hold and mix pigments when painting. Wooden palettes have been and still are widely used by artists because of it's durability and manufacturing ease. Wood was sturdy and has a good degree of imperviousness to fluids. Wooden palettes are typically available in oval or oblong shapes of various sizes. The traditional oval or "kidney" shaped palette is often preferred by painters which ranges from small hand-helds to the larger-sized models that are called arm palettes. Accessories can include a palette cup that can be clipped to the edge of a hand-held palette that holds mediums for painting There are also palettes made of clear acrylic, Masonite, or styrene. For those who wish to avoid cleanup, there are disposable paper palettes. Some use plastic disposable plates, while others buy cheap porcelain, glass, or tin dishes at yard sales for palettes. Some artists even use glass palettes in which paints can be rinsed from the surface during cleaning, and the hardened paint can be scraped off with a palette knife or razor. Glass palettes are easy on brushes and won't absorb paint, oils, or inks and with proper care, will last almost indefinitely. Also, solvents have no adverse effects on this type of surface. Most important is the keeping of your oil colors fresh. To help do so, a "wet palette" is now on the market for both oils as well as acrylics that have a seal tray with an airtight lid which can be used to keep paint fresh and protected when not in use. Almost any flat surface can be used as a palette. The basic criteria of these types of makeshift palettes is that they don't contain too deep of a depression or have separations, since either will inhibit the act of easily picking up or mixing paints. ----------------------------------------------------------------- COMING SOON: More Tips & Bits will be added next month Also, I am planning a trip to the Appleton Museum in Ocala, Florida and will report on that experience. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Well, that about wraps it up for another month. I do hope that you have enjoyed it. Now go directly to my website to get all the "inside scoops" on the News and Notices, Tips & Bits and to check out all the July classes you want to sign-up for. If you have any topics, ideas or questions that you would like to see featured in future newsletters or on my website, please let me know. I love hearing your feedback on your thoughts about it. Thank you for your time. Always,"Painting for Pleasure", with Tony and Tina Carchia Email addresses: Tony@Painting-for-Pleasure.com Tina@Painting-for-Pleasure.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- |