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5 Tips Of Acrylic Painting for Beginners

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Acrylic paints are a fast-drying paints that are being used by artists since the 1960s. They are much easier to use than oil paints and is an ideal option for beginners. If you understand the 5 simple tips of acrylic paint, you can master the art in no time.

The most important 5 tips for beginners of Acrylic Painting are:

  • Be Decisive with strokes: The acrylic paint dries extremely fast. Therefore, you don’t get much time to work with acrylics. 
  • Mixing Colours: The mixing of colours is the most important aspect of this painting. Make use of the palette to experiment colours while mixing and not your canvas.
  • Paint darkens as it dries: This is one issue all artists usually face. The lighter shades tend to darken as they dry. Hence, it is advised to allow a slight darkening of the mixed colours.
  • Upsize the Brush: Use a larger brush to paint as it will help you to think about the strokes and fill the canvas easily.
  • Painting materials: Your paint brush will get spoiled if you don’t clean them properly after each time you use them.

Follow a few tricks and begin your experiment with acrylic painting.

The History of Portraits: What You Need To Know

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A portrait is simply an artistic representation of a person. It could be a drawing, sculpture, or photograph.

The artist who makes portraits is called a portraitist. Portraits often relate to a message, which the artist or sitter (person who commissioned the work) wishes to convey. 

When a portrait is made, the portraitist aims to show the sitter’s appearance along with some elements of their character.

The artist will carefully craft visual clues to tell the story of the person in the artwork. Portrait paintings can reveal the sitter’s place in society, their hobbies or occupation, or aspects of their personality or beliefs. The facial expression, gesture, settings, clothing, objects. There have been portraitures as long as paintings. 

The first portrait is attributed to artists of the Egyptian Old Kingdom (2700-2300 BC). Entirely dedicated to the dead, kings, and gods, these paintings are not made to be seen by the living but for the spiritual world. 

Later in the early AD’s, portraits of the Roman empire was made, known as “Faiyum Portraits”. They were used to insert to the bandages of the mummy face concerned. They are called funeral portraits.

What makes ‘The Scream’ so expensive?

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‘The Scream’ is the popular name given to a composition created by Edvard Munch. The original title to this work was ‘Der Schrei der Natur’, which means ‘The Scream of Nature’ in German and the Norwegian title is Skrik (Shriek). The Norwegian is translated as the scream and so the painting is known as ‘The Scream’ or ‘The Cry’.

Edvard Munch is a recognized forerunner of expressionism, he is renowned for his representation of emotions. The painting was not intended to be a representation of an individual scream.

It symbolizes the anxiety of human condition along with the worry of nature. It is noted that the reddish sky in the background is the artist’s memory of the effects of the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, which deeply tinted the sunset sky red during the 18th century. The imagery of The Scream has been compared to that which an individual suffering from depersonalization disorder experiences, a feeling of distortion of the environment and one’s self.

However, Munch describes his inspiration for the image in his diary as, “One evening I was walking along a path, the city was on one side and the fjord below. I felt tired and ill. I stopped and looked out over the fjord—the sun was setting, and the clouds turning blood red. I sensed a scream passing through nature; it seemed to me that I heard the scream. I painted this picture, painted the clouds as actual blood. The color shrieked. This became The Scream.“

The Scream’s powerful expression has proliferated into everyday life. It is one among the handful of artworks to be turned into emoji. It has also been made into Pop Art culture. ‘The Scream’ is not a single work of art, there are two paintings, 2 pastels and an unspecific number of prints. One of them was auctioned at Sotheby’s in 2012 and was sold for £74 million, making it one of the most expensive pieces of art ever sold.