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Paintings with coffee
You might have heard painting with oil paintings but there is artist by name Plata who uses coffee as a source of painting. The artist uses instant coffee to paint whimsical scenes and rural landscapes on the surface and gives off the bean’s aroma.
Plata creates different shades of brown by mixing different quantities of coffee with water. She also uses a fixing material to ensure the longevity of the paint.
She started this technique after seeing a painting signed with coffee. Plata says that she started painting with coffee because it is more economical than the oil painting. Plata had been a playschool teacher before she barged into painting almost eight years back. She draws fairies, butterflies, and other images all inspired by her dreams. She specializes in using coffee as an alternative of paint. Her paintings are almost sold at a minimum of $400 and the pieces have an expected life of 75 to 100 years. She conducts coffee painting workshops for aspiring students as well as artists.
Two Van Gogh paintings seems like night and day
Two paintings by the world's most well-liked artist, Vincent Van Gogh, challenge in a partitioned room at the Yale University Art Gallery. As far as exhibitions go, this one that the gallery's dynamic curator Jennifer Gross spent no less than three years putting together is definitely on the small side. But it's well appeal taking the trouble to see. You would no doubt be familiar with one of the paintings: "The Starry Night." Painted during 1889, when Van Gogh was occupant in a refuge at Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France, this agitated, uncomfortable image is looked upon by many as his masterpiece. It's surely his most excellently known image, and almost certainly not far behind Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" as the world's most famous painting
Scientists disclose hidden Van Gogh painting
Amsterdam - A team of European scientists has exposed a fresh technique of extracting images hidden under Old Master paintings without injuring them, recreating a color portrayal of a woman's face hidden since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887.
While not precise in every feature, the image produced displays a woman's head that a van Gogh specialist said might be that of the sample in a series of portraits chief up to the 1885 masterpiece The Potato Eaters. Van Gogh often used again canvas to save money, either painting on the back or over the top of accessible paintings.
Joris Dik, a materials scientist from Delft University, and Koen Janssens, a chemist from the University of Antwerp, joined science and art to engineer a fresh technique of looking at unseen paintings, using high-intensity x-rays and an intimate knowledge of old pigments.
Two paintings auctioned for $ 9 million
The two most iconic paintings by artist Charles M. Russell were sold at a record high price of $9 million. The paintings portrayed a stagecoach holdup and a sculpture made in bronze of two Native Americans on a buffalo hunt. The hold up painting, it was a 30 by 48 inch oil painting made by a Montana artist in 1899, was sold at a dazzling price of $5.2 million said Mr. Bob Drummond, co-founder Mr. Bob said that the bronze painting of two American men, which had been completed in 1924, was sold at a price of $4.1 million. The artist, Mr. Russell who captured such the beautiful landscapes of the West in the late 1800's and 1900's, passed away at the age of 62 in 1926. The auction is has fetched the largest amount this year. So hats off to the artist for his beautiful skill.
Lutheran church painting found twin(s)
The ambiguity surrounding a painting belonged to Central Lutheran Church intensified of late when a Winona Post reader noticed that the actual painting pictured with the unique story looked very familiar. Really, Arlene Prosen said, it appears just like a painting that hangs in the church of her childhood in Hayfield, Minnesota. Prosen stated she bound for the photo to a friend that as well attended the Trinity Lutheran Church in Hayfield and the pair agrees: Its the same.
The original Winona Post story detailed the reinstatement work of home artist John Durfey on a seven-foot-tall oil painting, which had been in storage at Central Lutheran Church. The painting features a renaissance scene with an archangel and several women at Christas tomb and despite the fact that it is signed in pencil on the back by somebody named Orvin Olson, not much else is recognized about the origin of the art.
PAINTING GOES AT A RECORD PRICE
The painting Le bassin aux nympheas by Monnet has been sold at a record price of 41 million at an auction. This painting is one among the famous water lily series; experts expected it to sell it for 18 - 22million. It was sold after an intense bidding and with the support of telephone bidding went up to 144 million. Olivier Camu, Director and Head of Impressionist and Modern Art, Christie's London: "'Le bassin aux nympheas' is a masterpiece painting by Claude Monet. "After a thrilling bidding battle between a number of clients in the room and on the telephones, the painting eventually sold to an anonymous collector for 41 million, setting a new world record price for the artist at auction, and illustrating continued confidence in the art market."
Launch of Mary Cassatt new website
The only American painter to exhibit, Mary Cassatt is also an innovative printmaker. She is all set to launch a new website in September; the address hasn't been decided yet. It will ultimately include all her works between 1000 and 1100 in all.
She would be the first to go online over the course of a year with her exclusive paintings, both oils and pastels; followed by the counterproofs; prints from proofs rather than plates; and finally the prints and drawings. The site is designed to cater for both the casual visitor as well as the scholar.
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