Types of Paintbrushs

Paintburshs are essential for painting like some other things that I usually use (palette, cloth,  water, solvent, easel, palette knife, liseed oil...). Last week my art teacher told me about two types of diferent paintbourshs and its uses:


For watercolors we should use those made of poney or horses hair and are usually soft and malleable paintbourshs.

For oil painting we should use paintboursh made of pig hair which have a stiff and rough touch.

Next time I'll talk about different shapes of paintboursh. See you and remember "Don't be afraid of art"

Julian Beever

Some days ago, a friend sent me an e-mail with some paintings of that artist and I really like it. Beever is another unusual artist, but that one, usually paints in the street and he makes very nice optical  effects, they look like reality, they don't look like a painting...it's incredible. Julian creates optical effects that confuse our eyesight, littles tricks that produce very big things.
See you ! and remember..."Don't be afraid of art"

Juan Francisco Casas

This unusual artist was born in Jaen, Spain in 1976. Casas was graduated in Fine Arts in 1999 and he won a prize because he was the best student of Fine Arts in Spain that year. He has a special talent for drawing realism, Casas usually paints in a very big paper with a blue pen (bic), that produces a magic effect in his paintings. That artist takes photos of his daily live with a camera, not a very good ones, then he takes a pen and stars drawing, due to the low quality of the camera he changes a little bit the picture and releases his imagination.

 

It's difficult to belive that they are done only with a blue pen...
Next time I'll talk about Julian Beever, he is very unusual too ! See you and remember: "Don't be afraid of art"

Graffiti: art or crime?

Graffiti, have you ever seen one? They're everywhere, I'm sure that you often see them. Graffities appeared last century, about 60's in New York. At the begining they were only tags of people with their nicknames
and usually with the number of their streets like Taki 183 and Kilroy.

Some years later, other types of that urban art emerged, those had more colours and less letters. They were painted in underground stations, then with  Hip-Hop motifs, and nowadays they're also used to decorate places (private graffiti), others called slogans that espress a personal opinion etc...

In any case, graffiti is an art that usually needs a very big wall to be done and that fact prevents that some artists can practice it. Therefore, they are forced to paint in private properties and commit a crime. There are some places destinated for that but no many yet.

Next time I'll talk about a unusual artist call Juan Francisco Casas. See you and remember... Don't be afraid of art ;)

Hi !

In "A little bit of art" I'm going to talk about some artists, kinds of paint, techniques, etc. But do you know what art means?
I'm sure that you know something about it: the name of an artist like "Picasso" or a painting such as "Gioconda" or sculptures like "The thinker", who dont't know that things?

 

The thinker

Gioconda

 

Picasso

But art is not only the names of dead people or boring paintigs as some people think, graffiti is also art, a film can be art, and a song too, nowadays a lot of things can be art. A few days ago, I saw an exhibition of contemporary art and there were some interesting things, it was very original. For example, there was a room with a lot of red fumes and it was easy to come in but, inside,  you couldn't see anything and it was difficult to go out; that is art.

Next time I'll talk about urban art. See you ;) .