Drawing an Animal

Posted in Arts, painting

The drawing exercises in How To Draw Animals inspire confidence, which is highly motivating for both experienced and inexperienced artists. The simple illustrated instructional text is appropriate for beginning artists because it is based around well explained drawing exercises. These demonstrations show how to capture the characteristics of animals. They are illustrated step by step stages of building up structure.

Scaffolded Drawing Exercises
When starting out, many beginners think drawing animals will be a difficult a task. This daunting view of artistic endeavour is often called talent. To believe that one must possess talent to be able to learn to draw can be disempowering. This discouraging idea often develops because “would be artists” see the whole picture that they would like to capture. They do this without realising that artists go through stages before they realise this polished finished.
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Snakes, religious and symbolical

In India not just they consider as one of their God and must be threaten nicely, but also snakes, a crawling creatures which are consider enemy on most of country in the worlds. And India traditional music to call and made snakes dancing is snake earrings.
Traditional earrings in the villages and tribal areas of India are manifestations of symbolism, religious meaning and social significance. A woman wears a particular type of earring as a sign of identity, of membership in the defined social group into which she was born. Wearing the specific earrings of her community, she continues the tradition of her ancestors.
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Canvas Painting on African Art Landscape

Posted in Animal, Arts, Modern, painting

Animal painting offers great opportunities for the oil painter to explore oil painting techniques. This painting demonstration uses zebras’ stripes as a focal point.

Animal art, in this case, zebras, adds something extra to what would otherwise be an empty African landscape painting. The patterns on the zebras can be illustrated in the conventional way to build confidence in oil painting, but in this demonstration, the colours have been manipulated to offer an extra dimension.
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Symbols of Gluttony and Evil

Posted in Ancient, Animal, Arts, Symbols

Centuries ago, human used painting to represent some conditions. Just like egypt, Maya, etc, between good and bad, they’re using animals. So what do the following creatures symbolize in paintings means, lets find out more deeper.

1. The bat
The bat is generally known as a symbol for the night. Furthermore, in the West it is a symbol of evil and is associated with vampires. But in China it symbolizes good luck and longevity. Bats were considered by the early Christians to be “birds of the Devil” because of their association with darkness and their similarity to rats. Read the rest of this entry »