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ALEX PEREZ
Contemporary Realistic paintings

“ITALY VIEWS” paintings exhibition,
these paintings are for sale in my Website and Blog:

Website: http://www.a-perez.com/
Blog:http://perezart.blogspot.com/

To see this Video in High Quality or resolution, just start the Video and after that click on the black color button (HQ) in the lower right side bar of the YouTube screen, after you press the button the color change to red HQ

I thank and give the credits to Enya and her wonderful music that gives us so much happiness and I think it’s the best background music for my paintings.

Alex Perez Copyright © 2009 All Rights Reserved.

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This video is made for any person who wants to learn oil painting. This video will give you a solid base of knowledge. http://merrillk.com
Today, I am going to show you how to paint a puppy dog. I made this video for beginner to intermediate level artists, who wish to learn about traditional painting…I will try to show you how to paint. step by step. While I can imagine that painting a realistic looking puppy is intimidating for someone new to art, I will try to make my instruction as clear as possible, so that you can get in to great habits for the future. Once you are in good habits, you will progress very quickly.

I split this lesson in to four parts.

1.) Part one will cover what you need to know before you paint.
2.) Part two will give you an effective strategy for painting realistically The mentality of rendering (aka drawing what you see)
3.) Part three will walk you through the process of painting and I will give you tips while I paint. The process of “sculpting” a painting
4.) Part four will actually be a separate video and it will discuss glazing…a great finishing strategy. Glazing: Finishing a painting (Covered in another video)

Part 1.) I have two points to go over in Part 1-

1-1- First, pick a surface to work on. When I was learning painting, I would use cardboard in place of canvas to save money. Ten years later my original oil paintings are still in good shape. However, this would not be the case if I didn’t prime the cardboard with layers of Gesso. Without getting over technical, gesso gives your surface a protective layer that will prevent the oil from being over absorbed. Try to remember this silly saying, “Paint with cream, not with butter or milk!” No, im not saying that you should break out the dairy prodicts…..I am referring to the consistency of the paint. Cream is not a solid like butter …..and is not watery like milk. When you apply paint to a surface it should be creamy in texture. You can make the paint creamy by adding about three to four drops of painting medium to the paint that is sitting on your palette. The object in my hand right now is called a palette knife. I used it to mix the paint with the painting medium. For a long time, I considered this step trivial, but it makes a difference!

1-2 Oil Painters use mineral spirits to clean off their brushes and to thin out a paint mixture. Mineral Spirits is also known commercially as paint thinner and sold as an art supply called turpenoid for quadruple the price. You will only need a SMALL amount of Mineral Spirits because its very powerful. Use it sparingly when you wish to thin out your paint; because too much will make the paint runny and “milk-like” in consistency. Here is a great tip to remember when cleaning your brushes…..WIPE-DIP-WIPE. As silly as that sounds, commit it to memory….In other words….. wipe your brush with a paper towel…..Then dip it in to the mineral spirits and swish it around….followed by another wipe with the paper towel to take the extra spirits off your brush. The last wipe is especially important to prevent the excess mineral spirits from thinning out your paint too much

Part 2

Now you will learn a great strategy to help you paint what you see. I call this strategy, “jigsaw puzzle observation” because it is similar to putting a jigsaw puzzle together. Jigsaw puzzles are fun because you fit shapes together to create an image………I want you to think the same way when you paint. Try to see and identify shapes and then put them together like a puzzle. Painters sculpt and manipulate the paint on the surface of a painting until the shapes fit together as a recognizable image. Here….let me show you what I mean…..When you try this, I recommend that you get in the habit of looking at your reference image at least once for every five seconds; and then paint what you observed. After you get the bigger shapes in…..work your way down to the smaller shapes…….. If you feel that you cant work the paint any more. Let it dry and repeat this step on top of the dried paint. You have an advantage by using paint because it is opaque and it can cover over any mistake…… Take your time with this step. Skyscrapers cant be erected without solid supports and good paintings cannot be made without careful placement.
How to begin oil painting vido
Supply List
- Titanium White (paint)
- Raw Sienna (paint)
- Ultramarine Blue (paint)
- Ultramarine Purple (paint)
- Lamp Black (paint)
- Painting Medium (my favorite is called Liquin)
- Palette, Wax Paper or Aluminum foil (to mix the paint on)
- Mineral Spirits
- Canvas or Cardboard
- Gesso (white or clear)
- Paint Brushes (several sizes, tips, and softnesses……based on your preference)
- Cups for Mineral Spirits and Paint Medium

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Nowness (http://www.nowness.com) brings us an exclusive video of the “Skin Fruit” exhibition at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Curated by artist Jeff Koons, showcased are pieces selected from the collection of Greek businessman-philanthropist Dakis Joannou.

http://www.highsnobiety.com

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Howard Terpning was interviewed in his Tucson, Arizona home by Dickinson Research Center Director Chuck Rand and videotaped by Rogelio Garcia on November 12, 2004. In 1977 Terpning bid farewell to the world of illustration and began focusing his art work on the Native American people of the Great Plains. He has been a member of the Cowboy Artists of America since 1979. The National Cowboy Museum holds two of paintings, Moving Day on the Flathead and The Trophy. A New York Times article called Terpning “the most famous American artist you never heard of.”

The hour-long interview is available for viewing at the Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Please visit the following websites:
Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project

http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/research/cms/Projects/AKeithBrodkinWesternArtists/tabid/88/Default.aspx

Dickinson Research Center website:

http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/research/

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum website:
http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/

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Nick OLothian produced the music, that was used, in this most enjoyable, and educational, video.

Jack Stand, the art critic, is the narrator.

Sumeria was the land, where the towns, that were built, by Nimrod, began to worship the twisted fish god, head of the nommo. You can see pictures of the priests, of that area, wearin their fish costumes, in the video, and also how the popes (perps) pope-hat is a part of that fish costume.

Tru Keesey Ministries is approved by God, as the nucleus, of the true new world order, to replace the old order.

Iraq, Serbia, 9-11 World Trade Center bombings. Kabbalistic Babylonian human sacrifice ritual directed by the Roman priesthood. Business ownerships and dominances were transferred from non-Babylonian to Babylonian factions.
Quoted from Unsolved Mysteries http://hellhorror.com/mysteries/dogon, accordin to Fair Use Law: a Babylonian historian named Berossus – a contemporary and apparently an acquaintance of Aristotle (fourth century BC)-
claims in his history, of which only fragments survive, that Babylonian civilization was found by alien amphibians, the chief of whom is called Oanned the Philistines knew him as Dogon.
The Greek grammarian Apollodorous (about 140 BC) had apparently read more of Berossus, for he criticizes another Greeek writer, Abydenus, for failing to mention that Oannes was only one of the “fish-people”;
he calls these aliens “Annedoti” (“repulsive ones”) and says they are “semi-demons” from the sea.Homer’s Sirens-mermaid like creatures who are all-knowing and who try to lure men away from their everyday responsibilities actually “Sirians”, amphibious goddesses
There are many other fish-bodied aliens in Greek mythology, including the Telchines of Rhodes, who were supposed to have come from the sea and have introduced men to various arts, including metal work. Significantly, they had dogs’ heads.

The prayer, in the Bible, says save us from the power of the dog. The Hebrew word for Sirius means black.

Mick Snutz Art Department is the producer of this fine informational video, that shows how the church of rome, exploiting the gullibility of the catholics, and their un-holy roman empire, were the baddies, from long ago.

The destruction of the protestant town, of Dresden, was done, after the war could have ended. The war was prolonged, in order to destroy that city.

Hollywood, and the film industry, have been controlled by the mafia, which is an agency ruled by the vatican. They have tried to poison our minds, for many years, now.

But freedom and justice are bein established, even as you read this. Rome will be soon destroyed, ja, it is in the Bibles prophecy.

The Latins, the Etruscans, and the romans are all featured, in this joyful video.

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this is the initial underpainting

what your aiming to do here is define and fix edges and lines which could
otherwise become lost in subsequent layers
avoid creating edges you don’t want by blurring them out using painting Medium

colors used:
permanent rose (red)
cadmium yellow light
french ultramarine (blue)
titanium white

brand:
Griffin Alkyd fast drying oil color
(alternatively you could use acrylic colors for this stage)

Mediums:
Liquin

wearing gloves
Disposable gloves should be considered when working with oil paints. Many pigments & mediums are toxic and can be absorbed through the skin.

part 2/3

part 3/3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYODbxECS7E&feature=response_watch

website
http://www.mniland.com

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Nigel Freeman Discusses Highlights of Swann Galleries’ February 19 Auction of African-American Fine Art. The sale offers 250 paintings, drawings, collages, prints and sculpture by notable African-American artists—from Henry Ossawa Tanner to Faith Ringgold. Many of the works are recognizable because they have been included in important museum exhibitions and illustrated in catalogues and monographs.

Varied sale highlights include three stellar examples of Elizabeth Catlett’s sculptures, among them Sister, a green marble bust of a woman, 1971; several paintings that span the length of Hale Woodruff’s career and display his varied styles, including the stunning, modernist Woman by the Sea, 1930, painted while the artist was living in France; Beauford Delaney’s Portrait of a Youth, oil on canvas, a gift to James Baldwin, painted in Istanbul in the summer of 1966; a monumental charcoal and crayon drawing by Charles White, Lo, I am Black, 1978; and Faith Ringgold’s Tar Beach II, color screenprint on quilted fabric, 1990-1992. For more information on this and other auctions please visit www.swanngalleries.com

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ALEX PEREZ
Contemporary Realistic paintings

“SEASCAPES” paintings exhibition,

these paintings are for sale in my Website and Blog:

Website: http://www.a-perez.com/
Blog:http://perezart.blogspot.com/

I thank and give the credits to Enya and her wonderful music that gives us so much happiness and I think it’s the best background music for my paintings.

Alex Perez Copyright © 2009 All Rights Reserved.

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Bonspiel 2009
from Paul Taggarts Spirit of the Highlands Collection

Oils On Board
also available as a Fund-Raising Limited Edition Print
in aid of North Highland Curling Trust
Dimensions: 215mm(h) x 508mm (w)
Framed Dimensions : 475mm x 768mm

In the first year of our relocation to the Northern Highlands of Scotland and along with the rest of the UK, we were gripped by one of those Torvill & Dean moments. A 2002 Winter Olympics Gold medal won by a British team, competing in a sport rarely followed outwith those in the know. Although around for at least 500 years; the sport of curling had only returned to the Olympics four years earlier, after a break of some 70 years.

Visit the British Pathé news archive website and you will find rare black and white footage of the annual Grand Match, traditionally held on the Lake of Mentieth, going back to the early 1900s. Thousands poured onto the ice, resplendent in kilts and bonnets, to sweep the ice and throw the stones. The term curling comes from the curl of the stone as it slides across the ice.

Not since 1979 has an outdoor Grand Match taken place and although hoped-for in the ideal freezing weather of January 2010, it never came to be the issue of crowd safety and risk assessment thwarting all plans for such a happening!
As such, an outdoor Bonspiel is now becoming an even rarer sight and is precisely what we had resigned ourselves to thinking. For although a subject on the list of paintings to include in the Spirit of the Highlands collection, we had all but given up any hope of chronicling such an event that is, until in the last days of 2008, upon overhearing a chance remark from one of the local curlers at a social gathering to which we had been invited.

Which is how, a couple of days later (the first days of 2009), we found ourselves invited to witness an outdoor Bonspiel in one of the frozen fields of Morvich farm, in Sutherland. The term Bonspiel describes the gathering of clans or alliances in a tournament and mostly these are now held indoors, or on specially constructed outdoor rinks. But here we were, at an impromptu Bonspiel, where members from a number of clubs were busily clearing the snow and preparing the ice for their required sheets (the playing area). As you can imagine, we were delighted to have been asked along and this painting is the result of that days efforts.

Amongst these players, the very people who subsequently took it upon themselves to form the North Highland Curling Trust; with a view to re-establishing a curling facility north of Inverness, as the previous facility had been closed down for re-development. Initial investigations soon established that such a facility would prove invaluable, not only for the curling fraternity, but also for the wider community and in attracting visitors from around the world. How could we not lend a hand with fund-raising, when others are voluntarily putting such efforts into making this project come to fruition a project which is gathering pace and is at the next stage of development, with the appointment of architects to carry out a technical site study.

This proved a tremendously challenging prospect; what with the thirty-five figures, two dogs and all the curling paraphernalia the aim being to record the essence of an outdoor Bonspiel, not to mention the hive of on-going activity that accompanies an impromptu gathering such as this.

I needed to capture the accompanying piper, the clearing of the snow and buffing of the ice to create the sheets and crucially, the movements in the throwing of a stone, or the bent of the figures leaning on their brushes all too easily this could have resulted in a static view and not the lively occasion of such a gathering.

Unusually, the answer was a symmetrical arrangement of figures. Those on the left are predominantly busy preparing the area, whilst those on the right are getting on with the games. These figures sweep upwards and outwards so that I could lead the viewer through the middle to the distant brazier, keeping the soup warm for the end of play.

The sun, coming in from the right, provides a golden reflection down into the ice, interrupting the symmetry of the composition. It silhouettes the hills on the right, which are cast into wonderful blue shadows; whilst those on the left are bathed in its glorious amber glow. Cool converging shadows break the white starkness of the snow, allowing sunlit patches to sparkle in brilliant contrast.

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