#oil pigment limestone on canvas

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Dillon Samuelson

Phantom Limb

oil on canvas

18 x 28"

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What do each of these artworks have in common? They really grow on you. 🧔⁠ ⁠ We can't let #WorldBeardDay pass without sharing some of the glorious, global, and even ancient beards from our collection.

🖼️ Mountain Spirit (Sanshin), 19th century. Ink and color on silk, Image. Brooklyn Museum, Designated Purchase Fund, 84.145 → Daniel Huntington (American, 1816-1906). William Cullen Bryant, 1866. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of A. Augustus Healy, Carll H. de Silver, Eugene G. Blackford, Clarence W. Seamans, Horace J. Morse, Robert B. Woodward, James R. Howe, William B. Davenport, Frank S. Jones, Abraham Abraham, and Charles A. Schieren, 01.1507 → Roman. Head of Serapis, 75-150 C.E. Marble. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1522E. Creative Commons-BY → Ramses II, ca. 1279-1213 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 11.670. Creative Commons-BY → Makonde artist. Mask (lipiko), 19th century. Wood, human hair, fiber, pigment. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1922, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 22.1588. Creative Commons-BY → Indian. Zumurrud Shah Takes Refuge in the Mountains, ca. 1570. Opaque watercolor and gold on cotton cloth, sheet. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 24.48

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• Sur la confection personnelle de mes supports / About the making process of my canvases. • La plénitude des étapes de réalisation ainsi répertoriées : - Assemblage Montage d'un châssis en croix composé de 6 traverses d'abiétacée {famille des résineux}. • - Tension Coutil de lin & coton, tendu après l'application d'un primaire {1 liant + 1 charge minérale} & le brossage/décatissage de la toile. • - Encollage Application d'une colle de peau {Gélatine de cartilages} chauffée au bain-marie pour une imperméabilisation de la toile au médium utilisé & une résistance des fibres de cette dernière à la siccativité de l'huile employée. Dose de 1 g pour 10 mL d'eau. • - Enduction Badigeonnage plus ou moins épais de la surface par un enduit de type "gesso" {1 colle +1 charge minérale (Traditionnellement calcaire)} Ici, 200 mL de colle de peau pour 3 cuillères à soupe de poudre de marbre & 1 de pigment. • 🇬🇧 • The full of the realization & steps listed as follows: - Assembly Installation of a cross frame consisting of 6 crossbars {softwood family}. • - Tension Linen & cotton seam, tensioned after application of a primer {1 binder + 1 mineral charge} & brushing/descaling of the canvas. • - Gluing Application of a skin glue {Cartilage gelatin} heated in a water bath for a waterproofing of the fabric to the medium used & a resistance of the fibers of the latter to the siccativity of the oil used. Dose of 1 g per 10 mL of water. • - Coating More or less thick coating of the surface by a "gesso" type coating{1 glue + 1 mineral charge (Traditionally limestone)} Here, 200 mL of skin glue for 3 tablespoons of marble powder & 1 of pigment. • • Rushes : Soany, Rémi, Élise 'n me. •

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I know an Archaeologist who does all sorts of amazing work, including recording models of caves for mapping & virtual walk through, enhancing all varieties of their cave art (painted & carved) and wow, is it mind blowing.

Star Cave, Guam —

Link to 3D Model & Art enhancement :

Lions of Chauvet, Chauvet Cave, France:

Video of the actual panel, *not* the replica cave visited by tourists:

The 'hands cave' is literally named "The Cave of Hands (Cueva de Las Manos) and is in Argentina

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/936/

Video of the art:

Cascadia Cave, Oregon USA

The oldest Petroglyphs in the US could be those in Nevada, dating at 10,000-14,000 years old —

Also in Nevada, Toquima Cave has several shades of pigments used in the pictographs on the rock outcropping :

Humans have taken pigment to stone and stone to stone to make marks both functional and beautiful. We moved on to barks, papers of reed and pulp, parchment, canvas and any medium that would take staining, even our own skin.

We discovered how to use light and shadow and oils and starches to capture images to share with others, to show them what our own eyes saw but what we were unable to draw ourselves.

Then we tamed electricity through several different formats to send words and images all around the world to again share our little parts of the world with other humans, to show what we find beautiful, to warn and to awe, to educate or amuse and to add to our communities from individual to entire.

There's something extremely human about finding a little spot and filling it with our own words and art, but even more human is that we share it: it isn't hidden away for ourselves alone. We chose the space and then choose what to share because we think it's helpful or beautiful or interesting and know that other humans love that.

@kaijuno your handprints adorn not only your own cave but thousands of others, and while they may not last 10,000 years they've already been seen by generations of other curious humans. They'll continue to be seen and shown in distant lands adorning the caves of strangers, and even better yet, inspire completely new arts and works that will also be seen. You'll never know the impact you'll truly have on the world, but I don't think the artists working lions and deer or handprints onto stone by firelight had any idea children 30,000 years later would be inspired to pick up mass-produced paper and fruit scrnted magic markers to copy their strokes and wondrously, magically, immediately find in those simple lines a lifelong love of art, either.

And yet. Here we are. Our handprints fit inside of theirs, and the generations to come will fit inside ours. We have been here. We are here. We are leaving a little digital mark in our little electric caves that are creating marks in our world, tangibly, when someone is inspired to laugh or cry or learn or help.

Your mark exists and expands every day. You're here and remembered and lovely.

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I'm v drunk and watching videos on how, prehistorically, humans cared for the injured and disabled, and it lead to disabled individuals living full lives whilst animals with similar injuries would have perished. And it makes me wanna cry so bad because humans are so inherently good? They're inherently kind? Humans want to care for one another. Prehistoric humans cared for their disabled. If you wanna think about humans in terms of numbers, if you think about "humans need x amount of food, so they need x amount of hunters and no room for slackers" it's WRONG. It's always been wrong. Humans share. Humans care about other humans. Humans sacrifice things to make other humans more comfortable. It makes me a dumb emotional baby thinking about how it's always been human nature to care about each other. It makes me think about how random acts of kindness make people feel so warm and fuzzy. It's because they're satisfying a primal need to care about others. Because that's what humans do

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8 facts about pastel painting

8 facts about pastel painting

[ad_1] 1. Pastels are made from a secure base like all other fine art paints, including oils and acrylics. The difference is the binder. Pastels use very little binder, so it’s almost like applying direct pigment to a canvas.

The pastels are do notchalk! Chalk is made from limestone. Pastels are totally different. Pastels are one of the oldest and longest lasting foundations for hand painted…

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Pros and Cons of Linoleum Flooring

At a time when marble, ceramic and wooden flooring are considered to be the only viable options for homes in Pakistan, linoleum flooring remains pretty much forgotten and widely ignored. However, as interior designing experts have been pointing out, linoleum flooring has started getting popular once again – though for a different reason than what you might expect. When it comes to choosing flooring materials for home, most people prioritize aesthetics over everything else. Linoleum flooring may not be as aesthetically pleasing as synthetic carpet or vinyl flooring, but it is certainly a lot more eco-friendly and sustainable than most other options available in the market.  So, if you want to adopt a sustainable lifestyle or want to make sure your house is free from toxic air pollutants, opting for linoleum is certainly one of your best bets. Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of linoleum flooring and tackle some of the major misconceptions about it. WHAT IS LINOLEUM FLOORING? Linoleum is one of the most environment-friendly flooring materials Linoleum is an all-natural flooring material that is made from solidified linseed oil, ground cork dust, pine resin, pigments, wood flour, and ground limestone on a canvas or burlap backing. Manufacturers usually add a protective layer on top of linoleum to prevent discolouration due to sunlight exposure and to prevent scratches. However, it’s not always present. Read the full article

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10 of the best family-friendly hotels and villas in Greece | Travel

Sifnos, Cyclades

It’s rare to find a hotel that appeals to children of all ages. Verina Suites does so brilliantly, and has plenty of perks for adults too. Staff in white deliver homemade lemonade to the squishy day beds that line the turquoise pool. Kids can mess around on giant inflatables or play table tennis, while their parents wind down with outdoor yoga sessions or summery cocktails. Suites in sandy hues are set among fragrant gardens, with terraces where you can doze to the sound of the waves. Shallow Platis Gialos beach is across the road, with pedal boats, paddleboards and a lively strip of tables-in-the-sand tavernas and beach bars to choose from. • Doubles from €110 B&B in low season (fully booked in 2019 school summer holidays), kids up to 16 stay free in their parents’ room Getting there Five hours by ferry or three hours by catamaran from Athens

Lesvos, North Aegean

Every soothingly simple villa at Little Bird on the north coast of Lesvos has full-blown sea views. There are shady gardens, flagstone terraces for backgammon sessions as the sun sets behind the Byzantine castle of Molyvos and an infinity pool (and children’s pool) from which you might spot monk seals or flamingos. Skip down to Avlaki beach for a dip before breakfast at the Bird Café. Kids will love the fruit smoothie and home-made bougatsa (custard pie). Parents can while away the afternoon sampling the island’s most famous products: sardines, olive oil and ouzo. • From €90 a night (from €150 in high season) for a one-bedroom villa (sleeps three); €120 (€185 high season) for a two-bedroom villa (sleeps five), not including breakfast Getting there Thomas Cook charter flights from Gatwick, Manchester and Birmingham. From Athens, daily flights (50 minutes) with Aegean or Olympic airlines, or it’s 11 hours by ferry. Little Bird is 60km from the airport; car hire recommended

Arcadia, Peloponnese

The nine-suite Villa Vager guesthouse, owned by Nicholas and Marina Vager, is homely yet stately. Marina, an interior designer, created the handsome alpine vibe, softened with lace curtains and wildflower bouquets. She also makes the tastiest pies, cakes and pizzas, (served beside a roaring fire in winter) after a day hiking the Menalon trail or river rafting. Most rooms have stirring views of rolling plains and fir-clad mountains. It’s a great base for active families with older kids; Nicholas’s adrenaline-fuelled quad-biking tours will have teenagers raving. If you want to drag the kids around some ruins, it’s an easy day trip to Mycenae and Olympia. • From €120 a night for a room sleeping three (from €170 in high season), including breakfast Getting there An hour from Kalamata airport or a two-hour drive from Athens

Elounda Bay, Crete

This spot on the island’s north-east coast is a byword for super-luxe holidays. The laidback Elounda Island Villas, blissfully isolated on a tiny, sandy cove, are refreshingly unpretentious and affordable. The open-plan, solar-powered houses are the epitome of understated Greek island style: slate floors, built-in beds dressed in pure white, locally made pine furniture, and canvas chairs on verandas overlooking Spinalonga bay. Breakfast is served in an open-air snack bar, where you can while away the afternoon while the kids (who must be six and over) build sandcastles on the beach. Take older kids kayaking or snorkelling around the sunken ruins of Olous or rent a motorboat to explore Spinalonga island. The houses are self-catering, but there are seaside tavernas within strolling distance. • From €130 a night (from €150 in high season) for a two-bedroom maisonette for four to five Getting there Heraklion airport (an hour’s drive), is served by several flights a day from the UK (in season only) and Athens. The ferry from Piraeus to Heraklion takes five to eight hours

Evia

The 10,000-acre Candili Estate on the underrated (and Greece’s second largest) island of Evia, north-east of Athens, is part English country pile, part Greek history lesson. It’s been in the Noel-Baker family since Edward Noel, a relative of Lord Byron, bought the estate in 1832. Somehow, it has survived – a slightly threadbare but charming throwback, all sagging bookshelves, creaky wooden floors and hand-woven bedspreads. It’s the perfect setting for big family gatherings. The granary has been converted into 10 bedrooms overlooking a pool glittering in a glade. Also in the bucolic grounds is an icy plunge pool fed by a mountain spring, a ping-pong table, trampoline, and croquet lawn. Philip Noel-Baker, the puckish lord of the manor, encourages kids to pile into (and onto) his vintage Land Rover for off-road adventures. At dinner, everyone gathers around communal tables to swap stories over Stavroula’s wonderful Greek cooking. The whole place can also be rented as one, for up to 25 people. • Family weeks from €65 per adult, €40 per child (under 13) per night half-board and including snacks and drinks. Children under four stay free Getting there Two hours’ drive from Athens

Zagori, Epirus

Want to let your kids run amok in the wilderness? Zagori is just the ticket. This mainland region of soaring peaks, craggy gorges and rippling streams is gradually getting the attention it deserves thanks to lovely lodges like Astra Inn. Open year round, it’s in Megalo Papingo, one of 50-odd villages camouflaged in the hills. There are six wood and stone cottages and the cosy restaurant serves Greek comfort food (river trout, nettle pie, stuffed courgette blossoms) using ingredients reared, grown, or sourced locally by Kostas and Spyros Tsoumanis, brothers who will take you truffle or mushroom hunting in season. Tweens and teens can go wild swimming in rock pools, canyoning, rafting or hit the hills on ebikes. • From €100-€120 a night all summer, €15 per child, including breakfast Getting there Daily flights (45 minutes) from Athens to Ioannina, then one hour by car to Megalo Papigo

Laconia, Peloponnese

Surrounded by more than a thousand olive trees, Eumelia, a biodynamic farm, is sustainably minded and beautifully designed. The five guest cottages have dusky pink and ochre walls painted with natural pigments, beamed ceilings and geothermal heating. Activities change with the seasons: grape pressing, olive harvesting or cooking lessons using organic produce from the farm. Kids can help the owners, Frangiskos and Marilena, to feed the animals, plant vegetables and forage for the herbs that find their way into the wild asparagus omelette, lavender biscuits and fig and prickly-pear preserve served for breakfast. There are free mountain bikes if you want to explore Laconia’s towering mountains or serene coastline. • €160 a night for a family of four (kids under 12), including breakfast Getting there The closest airport is Kalamata (1¾ hours). It’s a 3½-hour drive from Athens

Chania, Crete

Ammos is the gift that keeps on giving for frazzled parents of babies and toddlers. Every year, the owner, Nikos Tsepetis, adds more designer – or as they put it “museum grade” – chairs (yes, every year they add a few new ones) and contemporary art to the all-white sunny living/dining room, more kid-friendly treats to the extravagant breakfast spread, more toys to the playroom and heated pool. After upgrading the rooms, this year he’s redesigned the lobby in undulating white marble. The jackpot: four hours of free childcare from Monday to Friday, leaving parents free to loll on the sandy beach below or have a massage. • From €125 a night in low season and €190 in high season (10% of the room rate for kids from two to 15; 5% for under-twos). Breakfast is €11 for adults and €7 for children aged two to 10 Getting there British Airways, easyJet, Ryanair and Norwegian operate direct flights to Chania (four hours); flights from Athens (55 minutes) with Aegean and Olympic airlines and Sky Express. Ammos is a 30-minute drive from Chania

Kardamyli, Peloponnese

Wedged between the Taygetos mountains and the Gulf of Messinia, the little seaside town of Kardamyli is where Patrick Leigh Fermor hung up his walking boots and laid down roots. Giorgos and Maria (who also run Fermor’s favourite taverna, Lela’s) have created the Notos Hotel, a cluster of stone apartments and studios tumbling down the hillside above the town. Open all year, the plain but spotless houses make a handy base for exploring the medieval castles, limestone gorges and shingle coves of the outer Mani. You’ll need to make (or pre-order, for an extra charge) your own breakfast and there’s no full-time staff on site. But Giorgos and Maria will point you in the direction of all the best local secrets. • From €100 a night (from €160 high season) for an apartment sleeping four, not including breakfast Getting there Thomas Cook, easyJet, BA and Aegean fly to Kalamata, an hour’s drive away. Car hire recommended

Syros, Cyclades

For Nick and Elspeth Geronimos, the Good Life is all about the humble pleasures that drew tourists to Greece before package holidays and fancy resorts. They have restored a smattering of 200-year-old cottages on Syros, an island with a lively year-round population and cultural scene. Surrounded by olive groves and vineyards, the self-catering houses are off-grid but brim with thoughtful features for families: washing machines, barbecues, filtered drinking water, baby equipment and kids’ bikes. You can help yourself to eggs, vegetables and fruit from the garden. It’s a five-minute stroll to peaceful Voulgari beach – ideal for toddlers. Older children can learn to sail or go pony riding. • From €90 a night for a villa that sleeps 4 (from €210 in high season), not including breakfast Getting there Ferries depart from Piraeus, Lavrio and Rafina to Syros (3 to 3½ hours); daily flights from Athens (35 minutes)

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8 Pastel Painting Facts

8 Pastel Painting Facts

[ad_1] 1. Pastels are made from the safe base as all other fine art paints, including oils and acrylics. The difference is the binder. Pastels use very little binder so it is almost like apply direct pigment to canvas. 2. Pastels are not chalk! Chalk is made from limestone. Pastels are totally different. Pastels are one of the oldest and most enduring foundations for hand painted portraits. 3.…

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Françoise de Felice

Artist painter

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Michele Mikesell

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Rudolf Nikolaevich Baranov

From the height of the port crane

1974

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Katerina Belkina

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Cynthia Ablicki

American landscape painter

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quentin monge

Beach Boy

oil, pigment limestone on canvas

80x100cm.