Luisa’s Scrapbooking IdeasCapture Family Memories With Fun Scrapbooking Ideas

Whether you need to produce a still life or a pet portrait, painting a three dimensional object on a two dimensional canvas has invariably been a challenge. To do it convincingly whilst retaining the freshness in the picture is even harder. Beginners frequently grab the tube of black to show shadow effects on an object, but here lies disaster.

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For water colourists, it doesn’t matter if you’re considering a landscape or pet portrait, you’ll be probably be required to show areas of dark shadow. Many leisure painters, when first faced with dark areas in their picture, will quite often use a tube of black or produce muddy looking colours. Unfortunately, it can be quite difficult to see the different tones within dark areas, it’s far easier to judge colour tone in lighter shades.

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When you think of portraits, you normally think of oil painting. Nevertheless, many superb portraits have been done using water colour. Water colours offer a way of capturing quick informal studies that where they lack on detail, more than make up for it in character.

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Water colour is a medium that allows for many tricks to create the desired effects. One of the more difficult effects to overcome effectively is snow. Not just useful in landscapes but can add character to pet portraits as well.

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If you decide to go ferreting around in antique fairs or merely happened to have discovered a long forgotten pet portrait that was abandoned in the loft, you might find the frame has been damaged or the corner joints are a bit slack. Assuming the frame is’nt a a rare antique, you can do the repairs yourself relatively easily.

Re-Gluing.

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