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How to Choose a Pencil: 9 steps (with pictures) - wikiHow
How to Choose a Pencil: 9 steps (with pictures) - wikiHow
Hardness runs from 9B (softest) to 9H (hardest). Numbered hardness values may be listed in the U.S. Here is the sequence.[1]
Hardness runs from 9B (softest) to 9H (hardest). Numbered hardness values may be listed in the U.S. Here is the sequence.[1]
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Refilling your
Most mechanical pencils made before the late 1960s and some even after that are refilled by feeding lead in from the Point End. Those that feed from the barrel (below the eraser) are a fairly modern invention! Don't be fooled by leads in the barrel, in older pencils, that was simply a space to store a few extra leads, but that's it - just storage. As always with vintage writing instruments, exceptions will crop up!
The instruction below are from a Sheaffer package insert, but apply to most older mechanical pencils.
ALL about Vintage Mechanical Pencils.
Refilling your
Vintage Mechanical Pencils
Most mechanical pencils made before the late 1960s and some even after that are refilled by feeding lead in from the Point End. Those that feed from the barrel (below the eraser) are a fairly modern invention! Don't be fooled by leads in the barrel, in older pencils, that was simply a space to store a few extra leads, but that's it - just storage. As always with vintage writing instruments, exceptions will crop up!The instruction below are from a Sheaffer package insert, but apply to most older mechanical pencils.
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ACCURASEE ARTISTS PROPORTIONAL DIVIDER DRAWING PAINTING TOOLS - Drawing
ACCURASEE ARTISTS PROPORTIONAL DIVIDER DRAWING PAINTING TOOLS - Drawing
The best price on this fantastic tool is at BONANZA!!!
The best price on this fantastic tool is at BONANZA!!!
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BloggerNote: Colored Pencil demonstrations and tons of good info... see left column
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The Prophet, Khalil Gibran
And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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ARC ARTicles - Classical Painting Atelier, by Juliette Aristedes - Sherry Ross - Page 2/2
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Book Review
IntoductionClassical Painting Atelierby Juliette Aristides "Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."About fifteen years ago, I was a passenger on a road trip. It was raining and I passed the time by watching the water bead up and stream down the window. The combination of the gray sky, the warm car, and the long trip made me drowsy. Just as I was falling asleep, I noted that this was just one of the innumerable moments in my life that I would never remember.Over the course of my life, most of the daily experiences-countless meals, great conversations, and long walks-have been erased by the passing of time. They are gone. And while I failed to realize it in the car that day, it is not only the daily business of most of our lives that slips by unremembered; given enough time, we ourselves will slip away into the vastness of history.Joseph Conrad wrote that part of the aim of art is to snatch a moment from the remorseless rush of time and to reveal that rescued fragment to others. Capturing and holding up a sliver of life's truth and emotion creates solidarity among all who share it. That nondescript moment right before I fell asleep in the car became a distinct memory because I distilled it through examination. Likewise, isolating and transcribing an occurrence or thought along with its emotional tenor can transform an indistinguishable fragment of human life into a powerful conveyor of the human experience.
IntoductionClassical Painting Atelierby Juliette Aristides "Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."About fifteen years ago, I was a passenger on a road trip. It was raining and I passed the time by watching the water bead up and stream down the window. The combination of the gray sky, the warm car, and the long trip made me drowsy. Just as I was falling asleep, I noted that this was just one of the innumerable moments in my life that I would never remember.Over the course of my life, most of the daily experiences-countless meals, great conversations, and long walks-have been erased by the passing of time. They are gone. And while I failed to realize it in the car that day, it is not only the daily business of most of our lives that slips by unremembered; given enough time, we ourselves will slip away into the vastness of history.Joseph Conrad wrote that part of the aim of art is to snatch a moment from the remorseless rush of time and to reveal that rescued fragment to others. Capturing and holding up a sliver of life's truth and emotion creates solidarity among all who share it. That nondescript moment right before I fell asleep in the car became a distinct memory because I distilled it through examination. Likewise, isolating and transcribing an occurrence or thought along with its emotional tenor can transform an indistinguishable fragment of human life into a powerful conveyor of the human experience.IntoductionClassical Painting Atelierby Juliette Aristides "Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."About fifteen years ago, I was a passenger on a road trip. It was raining and I passed the time by watching the water bead up and stream down the window. The combination of the gray sky, the warm car, and the long trip made me drowsy. Just as I was falling asleep, I noted that this was just one of the innumerable moments in my life that I would never remember.Over the course of my life, most of the daily experiences-countless meals, great conversations, and long walks-have been erased by the passing of time. They are gone. And while I failed to realize it in the car that day, it is not only the daily business of most of our lives that slips by unremembered; given enough time, we ourselves will slip away into the vastness of history.Joseph Conrad wrote that part of the aim of art is to snatch a moment from the remorseless rush of time and to reveal that rescued fragment to others. Capturing and holding up a sliver of life's truth and emotion creates solidarity among all who share it. That nondescript moment right before I fell asleep in the car became a distinct memory because I distilled it through examination. Likewise, isolating and transcribing an occurrence or thought along with its emotional tenor can transform an indistinguishable fragment of human life into a powerful conveyor of the human experience.
IntoductionClassical Painting Atelierby Juliette Aristides "Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."About fifteen years ago, I was a passenger on a road trip. It was raining and I passed the time by watching the water bead up and stream down the window. The combination of the gray sky, the warm car, and the long trip made me drowsy. Just as I was falling asleep, I noted that this was just one of the innumerable moments in my life that I would never remember.Over the course of my life, most of the daily experiences-countless meals, great conversations, and long walks-have been erased by the passing of time. They are gone. And while I failed to realize it in the car that day, it is not only the daily business of most of our lives that slips by unremembered; given enough time, we ourselves will slip away into the vastness of history.Joseph Conrad wrote that part of the aim of art is to snatch a moment from the remorseless rush of time and to reveal that rescued fragment to others. Capturing and holding up a sliver of life's truth and emotion creates solidarity among all who share it. That nondescript moment right before I fell asleep in the car became a distinct memory because I distilled it through examination. Likewise, isolating and transcribing an occurrence or thought along with its emotional tenor can transform an indistinguishable fragment of human life into a powerful conveyor of the human experience.
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IntoductionClassical Painting Atelierby Juliette Aristides "Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."About fifteen years ago, I was a passenger on a road trip. It was raining and I passed the time by watching the water bead up and stream down the window. The combination of the gray sky, the warm car, and the long trip made me drowsy. Just as I was falling asleep, I noted that this was just one of the innumerable moments in my life that I would never remember.Over the course of my life, most of the daily experiences-countless meals, great conversations, and long walks-have been erased by the passing of time. They are gone. And while I failed to realize it in the car that day, it is not only the daily business of most of our lives that slips by unremembered; given enough time, we ourselves will slip away into the vastness of history.Joseph Conrad wrote that part of the aim of art is to snatch a moment from the remorseless rush of time and to reveal that rescued fragment to others. Capturing and holding up a sliver of life's truth and emotion creates solidarity among all who share it. That nondescript moment right before I fell asleep in the car became a distinct memory because I distilled it through examination. Likewise, isolating and transcribing an occurrence or thought along with its emotional tenor can transform an indistinguishable fragment of human life into a powerful conveyor of the human experience.
IntoductionClassical Painting Atelierby Juliette Aristides "Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."About fifteen years ago, I was a passenger on a road trip. It was raining and I passed the time by watching the water bead up and stream down the window. The combination of the gray sky, the warm car, and the long trip made me drowsy. Just as I was falling asleep, I noted that this was just one of the innumerable moments in my life that I would never remember.Over the course of my life, most of the daily experiences-countless meals, great conversations, and long walks-have been erased by the passing of time. They are gone. And while I failed to realize it in the car that day, it is not only the daily business of most of our lives that slips by unremembered; given enough time, we ourselves will slip away into the vastness of history.Joseph Conrad wrote that part of the aim of art is to snatch a moment from the remorseless rush of time and to reveal that rescued fragment to others. Capturing and holding up a sliver of life's truth and emotion creates solidarity among all who share it. That nondescript moment right before I fell asleep in the car became a distinct memory because I distilled it through examination. Likewise, isolating and transcribing an occurrence or thought along with its emotional tenor can transform an indistinguishable fragment of human life into a powerful conveyor of the human experience.IntoductionClassical Painting Atelierby Juliette Aristides "Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."About fifteen years ago, I was a passenger on a road trip. It was raining and I passed the time by watching the water bead up and stream down the window. The combination of the gray sky, the warm car, and the long trip made me drowsy. Just as I was falling asleep, I noted that this was just one of the innumerable moments in my life that I would never remember.Over the course of my life, most of the daily experiences-countless meals, great conversations, and long walks-have been erased by the passing of time. They are gone. And while I failed to realize it in the car that day, it is not only the daily business of most of our lives that slips by unremembered; given enough time, we ourselves will slip away into the vastness of history.Joseph Conrad wrote that part of the aim of art is to snatch a moment from the remorseless rush of time and to reveal that rescued fragment to others. Capturing and holding up a sliver of life's truth and emotion creates solidarity among all who share it. That nondescript moment right before I fell asleep in the car became a distinct memory because I distilled it through examination. Likewise, isolating and transcribing an occurrence or thought along with its emotional tenor can transform an indistinguishable fragment of human life into a powerful conveyor of the human experience.
IntoductionClassical Painting Atelierby Juliette Aristides "Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."About fifteen years ago, I was a passenger on a road trip. It was raining and I passed the time by watching the water bead up and stream down the window. The combination of the gray sky, the warm car, and the long trip made me drowsy. Just as I was falling asleep, I noted that this was just one of the innumerable moments in my life that I would never remember.Over the course of my life, most of the daily experiences-countless meals, great conversations, and long walks-have been erased by the passing of time. They are gone. And while I failed to realize it in the car that day, it is not only the daily business of most of our lives that slips by unremembered; given enough time, we ourselves will slip away into the vastness of history.Joseph Conrad wrote that part of the aim of art is to snatch a moment from the remorseless rush of time and to reveal that rescued fragment to others. Capturing and holding up a sliver of life's truth and emotion creates solidarity among all who share it. That nondescript moment right before I fell asleep in the car became a distinct memory because I distilled it through examination. Likewise, isolating and transcribing an occurrence or thought along with its emotional tenor can transform an indistinguishable fragment of human life into a powerful conveyor of the human experience.
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Art Renewal Center® Scholarships and Programs with On-Line Museum
Art Renewal Center® Scholarships and Programs with On-Line Museum: "WELCOME. You have just entered the largest on-line Museum on the internet. A work in progress, steadily expanding with thousands of high quality images of the greatest paintings and sculpture in history, the Art Renewal Center is building an encyclopedic collection of essays, biographies and articles by top scholars in the field.
ARC is the Eye of the Storm, at the core, hub and center of a major cultural shift in the art world. With a growing body of experts, we are setting standards to become ARC Approved™ for artists, art schools, systems of training, museum exhibitions and historical scholarship, to bring guidance, direction, goals and reality to an art establishment that has been sailing rudderless for nearly a hundred years.
Additionally, the Art Renewal Center is a non-profit educational organization committed to reviving standards of craftsmanship and excellence. Only by gaining a full command of the skills of the past masters can we create the masters of tomorrow. This is a step forward for our culture. Experimentation and creativity can only succeed and prosper when built on a solid foundation of past accomplishments, with the tools which empower artists to realize their visions.
Nothing has been more restricting and debilitating than the theories of modernism, which eliminated these tools, along with the skills to employ them. We are providing a forum for artists, scholars, collectors and the public to appreciate great art, and to recognize that they're not alone in their suspicions about the emptiness of modern and postmodern art. These suspicions are fully justified by the overwhelming body of evidence and historical facts.
"Nobody who has invested much time down
a blind alley likes the messenger who shines
a light at the brick wall up ahead."
The ARC Philosophy
TABLE of CONTENTS
ARC Chairman Fred Ross' Oil Painters of America Keynote Address
Chapter I: The Great 20th Century Art Scam
Chapter II: Good Art / Bad Art - Pulling Back the Curtain
Chapter III: Bouguereau and the "Real" 19th Century
Chapter IV: ARC Chairman speaks at the Angel Academy of Art, Florence
Chapter V: ARC Chairman Speaks at duCret School of Art
Chapter VI: Abstract Art is Not Abstract and Definitely Not Art
Letters to ARC are increasing in number, in size, and in their passion and appreciation for ARC's information, programs and achievements. Click here to read some of the best.
Special Feature: Read the Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about ARC
Special Feature: Why David Hockney Should Not Be Taken Seriously"
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ARC is the Eye of the Storm, at the core, hub and center of a major cultural shift in the art world. With a growing body of experts, we are setting standards to become ARC Approved™ for artists, art schools, systems of training, museum exhibitions and historical scholarship, to bring guidance, direction, goals and reality to an art establishment that has been sailing rudderless for nearly a hundred years.
Additionally, the Art Renewal Center is a non-profit educational organization committed to reviving standards of craftsmanship and excellence. Only by gaining a full command of the skills of the past masters can we create the masters of tomorrow. This is a step forward for our culture. Experimentation and creativity can only succeed and prosper when built on a solid foundation of past accomplishments, with the tools which empower artists to realize their visions.
Nothing has been more restricting and debilitating than the theories of modernism, which eliminated these tools, along with the skills to employ them. We are providing a forum for artists, scholars, collectors and the public to appreciate great art, and to recognize that they're not alone in their suspicions about the emptiness of modern and postmodern art. These suspicions are fully justified by the overwhelming body of evidence and historical facts.
"Nobody who has invested much time down
a blind alley likes the messenger who shines
a light at the brick wall up ahead."
The ARC Philosophy
TABLE of CONTENTS
ARC Chairman Fred Ross' Oil Painters of America Keynote Address
Chapter I: The Great 20th Century Art Scam
Chapter II: Good Art / Bad Art - Pulling Back the Curtain
Chapter III: Bouguereau and the "Real" 19th Century
Chapter IV: ARC Chairman speaks at the Angel Academy of Art, Florence
Chapter V: ARC Chairman Speaks at duCret School of Art
Chapter VI: Abstract Art is Not Abstract and Definitely Not Art
Letters to ARC are increasing in number, in size, and in their passion and appreciation for ARC's information, programs and achievements. Click here to read some of the best.
Special Feature: Read the Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about ARC
Special Feature: Why David Hockney Should Not Be Taken Seriously"
more....
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World's Oldest Temple Discovered In Turkey, Archaeologist Claims (PHOTOS)
World's Oldest Temple Discovered In Turkey, Archaeologist Claims (PHOTOS)
"....the find upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization:"
Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern Turkey, Klaus Schmidt has made one of the most startling archaeological discoveries of our time: massive carved stones about 11,000 years old, crafted and arranged by prehistoric people who had not yet developed metal tools or even pottery. The megaliths predate Stonehenge by some 6,000 years. The place is called Gobekli Tepe, and Schmidt, a German archaeologist who has been working here more than a decade, is convinced it's the site of the world's oldest temple...
...Schmidt points to the great stone rings, one of them 65 feet across. "This is the first human-built holy place," he says...
...And partly because Schmidt has found no evidence that people permanently resided on the summit of Gobekli Tepe itself, he believes this was a place of worship on an unprecedented scale--humanity's first "cathedral on a hill."
"....the find upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization:"
Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern Turkey, Klaus Schmidt has made one of the most startling archaeological discoveries of our time: massive carved stones about 11,000 years old, crafted and arranged by prehistoric people who had not yet developed metal tools or even pottery. The megaliths predate Stonehenge by some 6,000 years. The place is called Gobekli Tepe, and Schmidt, a German archaeologist who has been working here more than a decade, is convinced it's the site of the world's oldest temple...
...Schmidt points to the great stone rings, one of them 65 feet across. "This is the first human-built holy place," he says...
...And partly because Schmidt has found no evidence that people permanently resided on the summit of Gobekli Tepe itself, he believes this was a place of worship on an unprecedented scale--humanity's first "cathedral on a hill."
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