Published by Helen Rowlands 10th May 2012 The Way I Work Below is my Easel with the Art work on, “Out of the Darkness, there is light”. Read more in RMA Discounted Materials and Equipment Great Art Supplies has up to 85% OFF RRP and FREE Delivery on Orders over £39.95, its also an easy [...]
Published by Helen Rowlands Art Materials Online, Good Shopping Experience from Great Art Supplies and Equipment. On some products up to 85% off, off RRP, a must do check of this article to see if you have all the right Art Materials and Equipment before you begin. Material I use and how I Work Although [...]
Great Art Supplies The UK’s largest range of quality art materials & discount artists supplies online including canvas, brushes, paints, easels and many more for artists, education . Paints Great Art supplies stock an overwhelming range of paints. The more popular paints are Watercolour paints, Acrylic paints, and Oil paints. This Week Must haves! There is Free [...]
Mark Rothko work sold for record $86.9m at auction Mark Rothko’s Orange, red, yellow has been sold for $86.9 million (£53.8m) – the highest price ever fetched by a piece of contemporary art at auction. The 1961 painting went under the hammer at Christie’s in New York. The auction house said the sale’s total takings [...]
By Artist Helen Rowlands Published: Originally 2011 Updated 2012 – ongoing project Angel Art & Photographs Ongoing Oil above second layer. Ongoing Oil above first layer. Angel Art – Out of the Darkness Oil & Acrylic on Canvas Series 1 of “Their Watching” an ongoing series – The painting is about creation, the question [...]
By Artist Helen Rowlands Published: Originally 2011 Updated 2012 – ongoing project Angel Art & Photographs Ongoing Oil above second layer. Ongoing Oil above first layer. Angel Art – Out of the Darkness Oil & Acrylic on Canvas Series 1 of “Their Watching” an ongoing series – The painting is about creation, the question [...]
Information about Pastels Art and Pastels. By Artist Helen Rowlands Published: 2012 Pastel Art Pastel Medium: Pastels are sticks of colour bound with gum or resin – have existed in their modern for over 200 years. They come ready mixed in a range of colours of tints and shades and are applied directly, usually [...]
By Artist Helen Rowlands Published: 2011 About Carpet Design and Carpet Manufacturing in the UK. About a Work Placement – Trafford Carpets In 1992 when attending my Degree Course – Design Carpets & Floorcoverings, I managed to keep some of the work. Trafford Carpets had been in manufacture at Trafford Park for over 80 years. [...]
Industrial Abstract Art in Pastel By Artist Helen Rowlands Published: 2011 The Industrial Project Inspiration was taken from the metallic metals and shapes from Wolverhampton’s Incinerator. It was under construction at the time and was full of scaffolding and peculiar twists and turns of metal shapes. I tried to capture the sharpness, coldness of the different metals [...]
Art Nouveau is an international movement and style of art, architecture and applied art, especially the decorative arts that peaked in popularity at the turn of the 20th century (1890-1905). The name ‘Art nouveau’ is French for ‘new art’. It is also known as Jugendstil, German for ‘youth style’, named after the magazine Jugend, which [...]
About the Art Deco Video The first part looks at how architecture and design both created and reflected the spirit of the time. The fun and frivolity of Art Deco sat alongside the pure, functionality of modernism and helped democratise style. Streamlining followed, making sleek, sophisticated, elegant design part of ordinary people’s everyday lives. Hollywood [...]
Alphonse Mucha Art Nouveau – Pastel Drawings Pastels shown in the video and he was interested Free Masonry and symbols. Four themes Cultural, Military, Allegory and Religion. Some are on display in the Mucha Museum. Below is information about working with pastels and if you want to purchase a set of pastel and have go please follow the links. [...]
Alphonse Mucha Art Nouveau 4 of 6 This video talks about his techniques how he sketched out his paintings before painting them in oil. The village he lived in modelled for him for the Slavic Epic. Mucha spent many years working on The Slav Epic cycle, which he considered his life’s fine art masterpiece. He had dreamed of completing [...]
At Sheffield Museum there currently is an Exhibition – Andy Warhol: Late Self-Portraits at the Graves Gallery. The Exhibition is on to: Wednesday 11 April 2012 – Saturday 1 December 2012 Gallery opening hours: Open Wednesday–Friday 10am–3pm Saturday 11am–3pm Closed Bank Holidays – please check the website, just in case they change their opening times. Free Entry [...]
Published by Helen Rowlands 10th May 2012 The Way I Work Below is my Easel with the Art work on, “Out of the Darkness, there is light”. Read more in RMA Discounted Materials and Equipment Great Art Supplies has up to 85% OFF RRP and FREE Delivery on Orders over £39.95, its also an easy [...]
Published by Helen Rowlands Art Materials Online, Good Shopping Experience from Great Art Supplies and Equipment. On some products up to 85% off, off RRP, a must do check of this article to see if you have all the right Art Materials and Equipment before you begin. Material I use and how I Work Although [...]
Great Art Supplies The UK’s largest range of quality art materials & discount artists supplies online including canvas, brushes, paints, easels and many more for artists, education . Paints Great Art supplies stock an overwhelming range of paints. The more popular paints are Watercolour paints, Acrylic paints, and Oil paints. This Week Must haves! There is Free [...]
William Morris, Artist, Designer, Writer, Socialist Born: 24th March 1834, Died: 3rd October, 1896 Nationality: English Famous for: Wallpaper, Textile Design, Fantasy Author & Medievalist Socialist William Morris was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and utopian socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. He founded a design firm in partnership with the artist Edward Burne-Jones, [...]
The famous Birmingham Artist David Cox David Cox was born the son of a blacksmith in Deritend, Birmingham, in 1783. As an only son Cox was expected to take over his father’s forge, but when he showed a talent for drawing instead his parents encouraged his interest in art. Cox began taking lessons from Joseph [...]
About the Arts & Crafts Movement, Birmingham. Arts and Crafts was an international movement that flourished in Britain from the 1880s until the First World War. The influence of its advocacy of hand-making, truth to materials simplicity in design, and emphasis on individual and small workshop practice however continues to this day. John Ruskin’s writing on the nobility [...]
A Journey through the Textiles of West Africa At Birmingham Art Gallery and Museum there is currently an exhibition exploring the traditional Style of African textiles which form an essential part of West African culture. Using vibrant woven, printed, dyed and embroidered cloth from Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Printing by Hand Printing by [...]
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