Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Making nails beautiful with artistic nail designs

Beautiful nails can be created in many ways. One can step from a basic nail job to a French manicure, or decorate with rhinestones stickers, glitter, or with patterns created by using round steel stencils.














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If you or your manicurist has good drawing skills, a unique design may also be painted on by hand. If you are going to paint by hand you will need such tools as a liner brush, a small one.
After you paint on the basic nail color, give it some time to dry. Then, you can begin painting.

Paint the wider spaces on your design in basic, even strokes with the liner brush. For thin curved or straight lines use a striper brush. The type of brush you use will match the thickness of the line or space you want to paint.

Nail art pens allow you to create art that looks like an air brushed design. One particular brand has a brush on one end and a drawing tip on the other end.

Your nails make a great painting surface and you carry the art everywhere.


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Monday, October 27, 2008

wood stain-applying to a wooden chair


How to Stain a Wooden Chair

Many of us may have an old wooden chair-perhaps in the kitchen or in our workspace-that we would like to give a new look. Any wooden article can be changed in appearance by staining it.

A stain is a mix of a solvent, pigment and a binding agent. A stain gives protection to wood and also enhances the grain of the wood. Stains are easy to use.
Stains come in many different traditional and contemporary colors. Imagine your chair with a protective covering the shade of green tea, honey dew or English oak!

The color you use will affect the look of the room your chair is placed in. If you use a dark color, it will make your room feel more clustered, whereas a lighter color will give more of an appearance of space to the room.














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Projects like this are best done outside, so the dust and fumes from the chemicals you will be working with don’t make you, or your family members ill.

Remove any old varnish or layer of protection on the chair’s surface. If you don’t, the new stain will not adhere properly to the surface. You can do this with sandpaper. Make sure you wipe the surfaces of the chair clean of the dust left over from sanding.

Test the color at a spot on the chair that is inconspicuous, so that if it is not exactly what you imagined, you can make corrections or adjustments.
Mix the stain well to make sure the pigment is evenly distributed throughout.
Apply the stain using a synthetic bristle brush or a soft rag. If you have gloves use them. Your hands will be protected.

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Knowing art-what is art


Can art be defined?
Can people sit together and decide what art is and is not?

People's values and choices rarely intersect and sometimes, an individual's defintion of what art is, runs far from what is regular or established.














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I believe art will be found in many different places.

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