Saturday 14 January 2012
Non Toxic Craft Paint
Making arts and crafts is one hobby that almost anyone can enjoy. It is a great way to release energy and create something beautiful at the same time. While making arts and crafts is an enjoyable experience, it is important to consider the materials that you are using to create. When making arts and crafts, it is as important to stay safe as it is to create something beautiful, so consider the following four activities with non-toxic supplies that will help you release your creative juices in a positive and safe way.
The first art that most people enjoy is drawing and painting. It is important, however, to realize that a lot of art supplies have toxic materials that are not good for the body, especially when used on a daily basis. One solution to this is to create colored pencil drawings and use pencil crayons. This is a great way to create a color drawing with great tools. You can also practice larger projects by using pencil crayons for your sketches. Pencil crayon sketches are a great way to release creative energy in a non-toxic way.
The first art that most people enjoy is drawing and painting. It is important, however, to realize that a lot of art supplies have toxic materials that are not good for the body, especially when used on a daily basis. One solution to this is to create colored pencil drawings and use pencil crayons. This is a great way to create a color drawing with great tools. You can also practice larger projects by using pencil crayons for your sketches. Pencil crayon sketches are a great way to release creative energy in a non-toxic way.
Friday 13 January 2012
Craft Spray Paint
If you're having a picnic party theme at home, get a few medium sized tins that would suit having a few freshly picked flowers in them. Near the top, make two holes on opposite sides - probably best to ask your dad, husband or brother to help! Thread some pretty ribbon through and tie it at the top, this will be used to hang the tin from the branches of trees or the rafters of your patio. Go into your garden and pick a few pretty fresh flowers and some foliage, and pop them into the tins with some water. If you have the time and creativity, you could also glue some pretty fabric to the tins, or spray paint them in the color/s of your theme.
Craft Products
Craft products are generally defined as handmade artistic products. While the craft industry is growing in products and ideas all the time, one of the best things about crafts is that they are generally a traditional item.
Today there are many millions of crafters that are happily doing crafts all across the world, and they are doing this individually, in clubs and in classes. One of the nicest things about crafts is that they are generally a social pastime, as it is almost impossible for a crafter to not share their handiwork.
Today there are many millions of crafters that are happily doing crafts all across the world, and they are doing this individually, in clubs and in classes. One of the nicest things about crafts is that they are generally a social pastime, as it is almost impossible for a crafter to not share their handiwork.
Hand Painted Crafts
Want to spice up your living room? A single item of ha-painted furniture from Rajasthan, India, could be just the thing you're looking for, adding rich color and interest to your home.
Like other myriad crafts from this Indian desert state, hand-painted wooden furniture has a long tradition. The cities of Kishangarh and Jodhpur, in particular, are famed for their distinctive styles of furniture.
Acacia arabica, mango and rose are the woods favored by artisans. An item of furniture is first made and then finished. Painting is done over the finished piece, which is finally given a coat of varnish. A host of products are available: small, low chairs (with detachable seats) that are surprisingly comfortable, stools, trunks, wine racks, cupboards, doors, paneled screens, cabinets and decorative, carved 'windows'. A wide range of bright colors are used to decorate these products
Like other myriad crafts from this Indian desert state, hand-painted wooden furniture has a long tradition. The cities of Kishangarh and Jodhpur, in particular, are famed for their distinctive styles of furniture.
Acacia arabica, mango and rose are the woods favored by artisans. An item of furniture is first made and then finished. Painting is done over the finished piece, which is finally given a coat of varnish. A host of products are available: small, low chairs (with detachable seats) that are surprisingly comfortable, stools, trunks, wine racks, cupboards, doors, paneled screens, cabinets and decorative, carved 'windows'. A wide range of bright colors are used to decorate these products
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Face Painting Supplies
For a child, face painting has to be one of the coolest activities ever known to man. Paint is like a forbidden substance to them, igniting a curiosity that won't be satiated easily be my merely watching a painter do his job. So when a face painting opportunity comes by, a kid can hardly resist.
Unfortunately, they also think that doing it is easy - and fast.
True, it is fun to do, which makes it easy on the painter. But that is because they have the liberty of time to make mini-masterpieces of their own. But if you're painting kids' faces, then you run into the dilemma of keeping them still, most especially the younger ones who are known to have a very, very short attention span.
This is where stencils and stamps come in, especially if you're into cheek painting. These would make your work faster and easier. The kids would be happier, and you and the children's parents would be relieved that the session is finally over with nary a clamor.
Unfortunately, they also think that doing it is easy - and fast.
True, it is fun to do, which makes it easy on the painter. But that is because they have the liberty of time to make mini-masterpieces of their own. But if you're painting kids' faces, then you run into the dilemma of keeping them still, most especially the younger ones who are known to have a very, very short attention span.
This is where stencils and stamps come in, especially if you're into cheek painting. These would make your work faster and easier. The kids would be happier, and you and the children's parents would be relieved that the session is finally over with nary a clamor.
Painting Crafts
For lots of hobbyists, beginning a new project feels much like the anticipation of cooking a gourmet meal. There's the sense of buildup, and the gathering together of supplies and ingredients, and finally the meticulous but ultimately rewarding process of creating the object of your fascination.
Losing control of the painting, however, is like finding the stove is broken, or the recipe's ingredients have all gone mysteriously sour. There's nothing like the disappointment - fortunately! - of watching the best-laid hobby plans go wrong through no deliberate fault of your own.
But there are solutions to even the biggest painting crises, and most of them require nothing more than a little forethought. The seven techniques presented below allow you the freedom to avoid mistake by getting around them in the first place. Prevention, after all, is the best medicine.
Losing control of the painting, however, is like finding the stove is broken, or the recipe's ingredients have all gone mysteriously sour. There's nothing like the disappointment - fortunately! - of watching the best-laid hobby plans go wrong through no deliberate fault of your own.
But there are solutions to even the biggest painting crises, and most of them require nothing more than a little forethought. The seven techniques presented below allow you the freedom to avoid mistake by getting around them in the first place. Prevention, after all, is the best medicine.
Craft Paints For Wood
For people who are interested in using wooden crafts, making some handmade birthday gifts to them using wooden pieces would be an interesting idea indeed. When you try to make use of this kind of wooden crafts to make the suitable type of handmade gifts, you will find that there are plenty of options that you can choose. You may use a piece of wood and use paints to write the names of you and someone else and give it as a kind of present.
This kind of present would be suitable for kids to present to their parents. If parents find that kids make that present on their own, parents will surely feel very happy. Therefore, this will be a good choice of present if you are going to surprise your partner. You can work secretly with your kids in making this kind of craft. And you can also encourage your kids to think and contribute their kids craft ideas to make things interesting.
This kind of present would be suitable for kids to present to their parents. If parents find that kids make that present on their own, parents will surely feel very happy. Therefore, this will be a good choice of present if you are going to surprise your partner. You can work secretly with your kids in making this kind of craft. And you can also encourage your kids to think and contribute their kids craft ideas to make things interesting.
Paint Craft
Most of my art students peers preferred working with acrylic paints as I do, mostly due the affordability of it. I have to say, art professors encouraged the use of it too. In looking back, I'm wondering if professors liked acrylics due to the easy clean-up. Typically, art classrooms are not the cleanest classrooms on campus anyway; and if most students used oils instead, I can't imagine what the classrooms and sinks would have looked liked!
One tip I learned in school had to do with what acrylic paint is actually made of. Acrylic paints are colored liquid plastics (even though some acrylic paints are flat and others are high-gloss). Perhaps this is why acrylic paint is considered to be craft paint. Since it is plastic, acrylics dry quickly which is what most of us want. But, to slow down the drying-out process on your paint palette, put a couple of damp paper towels over it and squirt the paint directly on top of it. Surprisingly, the paint hardly spreads out and absorbs.
One tip I learned in school had to do with what acrylic paint is actually made of. Acrylic paints are colored liquid plastics (even though some acrylic paints are flat and others are high-gloss). Perhaps this is why acrylic paint is considered to be craft paint. Since it is plastic, acrylics dry quickly which is what most of us want. But, to slow down the drying-out process on your paint palette, put a couple of damp paper towels over it and squirt the paint directly on top of it. Surprisingly, the paint hardly spreads out and absorbs.
Sunshine Crafts
Vacation destinations don't get much better than the world famous Sunshine Coast. It has the tropics, sun and sand that everyone wants. And in addition to this there is some unbelievable shopping.
There are markets for every taste and desire, they serve both the natives and the tourists on the Sunshine Coast. The variations of offerings are immense, but make sure to check the times they're open because some of them vary a great deal.
This is a list of a few of the really neat markets to hit while you're on the Sunshine Coast - One of the largest with over 300 booths and 10,000 shoppers per day is the Eumundi Market, but it's only open a couple days a week so you need to make plans. It's open on Wednesday and Sunday from 8a to 130p, and has lots of arts and crafts along with produce and street performers for everyones enjoyment.
Cooroy Community Market - This market is open on Thursdays from 8am - 1:30pm. Be sure to get there early to get the best bargains on apparel and craft items. Cooran Foo Markets - Located at Pioneer Park, you will find that this market is open every 1st & 3rd Saturday, offering a family friendly atmosphere and a park for children right beside it. Cooran Foo Market offers many jewelry items as well as homemade foods and produce. They also offer many booths featuring art and crafts and live music for your entertainment.
There are markets for every taste and desire, they serve both the natives and the tourists on the Sunshine Coast. The variations of offerings are immense, but make sure to check the times they're open because some of them vary a great deal.
This is a list of a few of the really neat markets to hit while you're on the Sunshine Coast - One of the largest with over 300 booths and 10,000 shoppers per day is the Eumundi Market, but it's only open a couple days a week so you need to make plans. It's open on Wednesday and Sunday from 8a to 130p, and has lots of arts and crafts along with produce and street performers for everyones enjoyment.
Cooroy Community Market - This market is open on Thursdays from 8am - 1:30pm. Be sure to get there early to get the best bargains on apparel and craft items. Cooran Foo Markets - Located at Pioneer Park, you will find that this market is open every 1st & 3rd Saturday, offering a family friendly atmosphere and a park for children right beside it. Cooran Foo Market offers many jewelry items as well as homemade foods and produce. They also offer many booths featuring art and crafts and live music for your entertainment.
Craft Paint For Wood
Unfinished wooden bangles are the perfect jewelry craft project for experienced or new crafters. The design and creativity possibilities are endless. You can use one color or a multitude of colors to truly embellish and accent the wooden bangle. People also paint polka-dots, hieroglyphics, trees or even flower designs on their wood bangles.
And, after the paint dries the bangle can be covered with glitter, stickers, fabric, or even cloth flowers. Some people buy wooden bangles to decorate and resell while others create and add the bangles to their wardrobe. It is also a wonderful craft project to bond with others. One of the greatest pluses is the fact that it is very inexpensive and easy.
Materials needed:
• Unfinished wood bangles
• Acrylic Paint
• Modge Podge or Polyurethane
• Two Paint brushes
• Water basin
• Wax paper
• Towel
• Paint Palette or Plastic Plate
Most of the materials can be bought at any craft store or online.
Step 1: Prepare Your Working Space
Place a sheet of the wax paper under your working area to prevent creating a mess. Put water in a water bottle to hold the paint brush. Organize the wax paper you are going to use. Wood bangles are small so you will probably only need one sheet of paper to lie across your work station.
And, after the paint dries the bangle can be covered with glitter, stickers, fabric, or even cloth flowers. Some people buy wooden bangles to decorate and resell while others create and add the bangles to their wardrobe. It is also a wonderful craft project to bond with others. One of the greatest pluses is the fact that it is very inexpensive and easy.
Materials needed:
• Unfinished wood bangles
• Acrylic Paint
• Modge Podge or Polyurethane
• Two Paint brushes
• Water basin
• Wax paper
• Towel
• Paint Palette or Plastic Plate
Most of the materials can be bought at any craft store or online.
Step 1: Prepare Your Working Space
Place a sheet of the wax paper under your working area to prevent creating a mess. Put water in a water bottle to hold the paint brush. Organize the wax paper you are going to use. Wood bangles are small so you will probably only need one sheet of paper to lie across your work station.
Crafts Painting
Since birdhouses are made out of wood, they can be painted over and over. They are great to practice on. In fact, the more paint, the better (especially if they end up outside). Another reason why I choose to work with them has to do with the multiple planes of birdhouse architecture. Trying new design ideas on different planes is easier than painting on 2-D formats. When painting on 2-D canvases, artists need to worry about composition and framing, whereas this is typically not too much of a concern when painting birdhouses.
I decoupage, glaze, antique, stress, sponge, stencil, and even faux paint birdhouses. Birdhouses are the perfect format to explore color schemes too. It's natural to have some birdhouses turn out better than others. Typically, the better designed birdhouses can stay indoors (or put up for sale) and the lesser ones can go outside. Often times and as mentioned earlier, some of the birdhouses have several applications applied to them. I have to admit, after several layers of paint, the surfaces can get ruddy looking (but the birds and wasps never seem to care).
I decoupage, glaze, antique, stress, sponge, stencil, and even faux paint birdhouses. Birdhouses are the perfect format to explore color schemes too. It's natural to have some birdhouses turn out better than others. Typically, the better designed birdhouses can stay indoors (or put up for sale) and the lesser ones can go outside. Often times and as mentioned earlier, some of the birdhouses have several applications applied to them. I have to admit, after several layers of paint, the surfaces can get ruddy looking (but the birds and wasps never seem to care).
Glow In The Dark Craft Paint
Give Your Child the Moon and The Stars. And throw in Some Planets while you're at it.
With Very Bright Glow in the Dark Craft Paints.
Easy to do and not hard on the Pocket Book.
You have probably heard of people doing it. It sounds pretty neat you thought. But will it really work? The answer is yes! It is very easy and very inexpensive to do also and it looks really cool!!
In all m years of messing around with glow in the dark paints and powders probably the number one project I get asked questions about is the stars on the ceiling one. Is it hard to do? How much paint will it take? Where do I get a stencil? Should I use oil or water base paint? The list goes on. In this article I hope to answer all your questions and give you some additional ideas as to what to do with glow in the dark paint.
With Very Bright Glow in the Dark Craft Paints.
Easy to do and not hard on the Pocket Book.
You have probably heard of people doing it. It sounds pretty neat you thought. But will it really work? The answer is yes! It is very easy and very inexpensive to do also and it looks really cool!!
In all m years of messing around with glow in the dark paints and powders probably the number one project I get asked questions about is the stars on the ceiling one. Is it hard to do? How much paint will it take? Where do I get a stencil? Should I use oil or water base paint? The list goes on. In this article I hope to answer all your questions and give you some additional ideas as to what to do with glow in the dark paint.
Craft Painting Supplies
Walk into any art studio and the wonderful smell of paint will hit you (and further evidence is likely to be all over the floor, walls and ceiling too). And have you ever wondered what's in those large portfolios you see them carrying round? Those great big portfolios you see them walking round with. And we must not forget that the contemporary artists plying their trade in the galleries and exhibitions the world over will have honed their techniques using the same paint brushes, paints, chisels and kilns as their more famous forebears.
So when starting to learn the basic techniques in art, design or crafts, a useful thing to do is to find an art supplier that can be of help. And if their prices are competitive, well, it certainly won't cost you dearly either! Shopping via the internet is now a convenient method of getting supplies, with most good retailers large and small getting in on the e-commerce act. In addition to having the opportunity to compare prices and seek out new products, you can join mailing lists to be alerted to special offers and stock clearance sales. It's easy to dismiss these emails as junk, but all outlets need to keep their stock levels manageable and if they have over-ordered or if they're clearing space for Christmas or the new university term, you can get some genuine bargains. Also, you might be offered a material you've not heard of previously, perhaps because of cost, and find out that it's a life-changing product that inspires you to do great things.
So when starting to learn the basic techniques in art, design or crafts, a useful thing to do is to find an art supplier that can be of help. And if their prices are competitive, well, it certainly won't cost you dearly either! Shopping via the internet is now a convenient method of getting supplies, with most good retailers large and small getting in on the e-commerce act. In addition to having the opportunity to compare prices and seek out new products, you can join mailing lists to be alerted to special offers and stock clearance sales. It's easy to dismiss these emails as junk, but all outlets need to keep their stock levels manageable and if they have over-ordered or if they're clearing space for Christmas or the new university term, you can get some genuine bargains. Also, you might be offered a material you've not heard of previously, perhaps because of cost, and find out that it's a life-changing product that inspires you to do great things.
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