How to choose the style, proportions and color of a frame, when it is worth making a visualization before the purchase and why it is sometimes best to hang a painting entirely without framing.
How to choose a painting for a child's room
We have lived to see wonderful times, when a child's room is no longer just a space ruled by Chinese toys and Disney illustrations.
The fashion for ecological, natural materials and the abundance of good children's illustration mean that the eyes of our little ones can now enjoy good design and interesting colors.
Wet-on-wet looks like an accident, but it comes down to catching one moment. On when the sheet is ready, how strong the mix has to be, why the technique suits meadows and mist, and what it will not forgive.
A glaze is a thin transparent film of oil paint laid over a dry layer. On how it differs from mixing colours on the palette, how to keep the fat over lean rule and why a single glaze can mean waiting a week.
In impasto the paint stops being only colour and becomes a material that casts its own small shadow. On tools, on how such a picture behaves under changing light, and on the traps of a thick layer.
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