Professional Artist

Well, yesterday I went to Ray street at night. I thought that there was a lot of interesting art. I even spoke to an artist named Andre Rushing and he is a art that does oil paintings, and seemed to be a very interesting person. I thought that he seemed to really busy because, I had made a appointment with him. But, he was so busy that I had to interview him when he was going to buy things. So, last night he seemed like he was very busy. But, I got all the information about what he does, and what he thinks about art now a days. He thinks that artist now a days don't use what the older artist use to do. They are more into sculpturing now, but something that he said that was interesting was most pieces of art go around a political aspect. Then, I showed him some of my art pieces and he seemed to like one out of all the other ones I showed him.

Salvation Mountain

Well on Friday a bunch of my friends and me went out to Salvation Mountain. Salvation Mountain is about a man who spoke to god before. But, that was not the point of going there it was to see the piece of art work that he had made. It is made out of hay and plaster and a lot of paint. It is one really big piece of artwork that is one the mountain. It took him 24 years too build and is still working on it a little. Everything he used in the mountain was found in the desert by El Centro. It was one amazing piece of art piece. If you are interested you should go out and check it out.

Visit this website for more details: http://www.salvationmountain.us/notables_art.html

Anne Frank

A few days ago I read a section from Anne Franks diary about WWII and Nazis. She talked about how she was Jewish, and how they treated anyone that was Jewish. I thought that it was really interesting why the Nazis, thought it was alright to treat Jewish people different. They are still people how could they say what time they could be out in the streets. What time they could go shopping. Where they should go shopping, and what time the lights needed to be out. After 8 o'clock was when all the people had to be in there houses they couldn't even be in there own yards sitting. Something that Anne Frank said was really true it was " Paper is more patient then man" because, the way she wrote her diary was like she was all by herself and no one was there for her to talk to. The way she wrote the entry's seemed like she didn't want someone to read it. I thought it was very interesting to read.

Pregnancy and Paint Exposure

http://www.americanpregnancy.org/pregnancyhealth/paintexposure.html

This website help me find out that there is a problem with pregnant women, and paint. It is really bad for you, but if there is a need for them to paint then they should takes rest in between keep food and drinks away from paint at all times. Leave doors, and windows open at all times. To find out more information about this subject go to the link above.

Biography of Eugene Delacroix

http://www.abcgallery.com/D/delacroix/delacroixbio.html#The%20Massacre%20of

This website helped me out a lot about the variety of his paintings and what each ones was about. i also found it very helpful because, of the content. I think that the biography of his life then the painting history, and little notes at the bottom of the web helped me out a lot finding out about him.

History of Art

http://www.wga.hu/index.html

This website also helped me out because, it gave me a little background on what was going on during 1800 and earlier. I told me that there website is an art gallery of many famous painters art and reproduction of the art, and pictures of the famous art of the painters.

Eugène Delacroix

http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=c&a=p&ID=95

This web site helped me out a lot by telling me why he chose the colors he chose. Why he did he put the things he put into the painting and so on, Why was there a need for people to be dieing all around the picture. The reason why there was such a massive chaos going on while the king was just sitting there and watching all the women die in front of him.

Website I have found helpful (egg tempera & casein tempera )

"Tempera Paintings." Encarta. 18 Feb. 2008

From this website I found out a lot about how tempera paint was used and made it the 13th and 14th century.

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761576276/Tempera_Painting.html

"Making Egg Tempera." Daniel Smith. 18 Feb. 2008 .

From this website I found out how to make egg tempera

"SAFETY CONCERNS FOR PREGNANT PAINTERS." Society of Tempera Painters. 18 Feb. 2008 .

I found safety concerns for pregnant painters on this website.

"Healthy and Safety in the Arts." Tucson. 18 Feb. 2008 .

This website was a really good one because, it told me the hazards and safety for each kind of pigment. And why it was dangerous

Egg Temprea

http://www.alexogarcia.com/fineart/egg-tempera-demo.asp

This website tells you the step in order to make paint to with egg yoke.

Pigments and Chemicals

http://jcsparks.com/painted/pigment-chem.html

This website has a lot of chemicals and what colors they make.

Pigments and the history of them

http://webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/early.html

From this website I found out that before we had all this technology, back then we had to use animals, vegetables or iron oxide found in the ground. They also state that people had to travel very far just to find a red pigment so they could use it to paint. They also were limited to the three basic colors that were red, black, and yellow. Red, yellow, and browns came from the limonites and hematites with are (ochres and siennas), that was a range of reddish brown with is evident in the paintings.

The through the middle ages mineral pigments were used the most by painters in the 1900’s for example one of them is iron oxide that helped them make multiple colors.

Purpose of this blog

Hi, Welcome to my blogger account. The purpose of this blog will be used for listing helpful information on the stuff I find about. Some of these well be about art history, industrial revolution history and about WWI and WWII. I will also add some of my reactions to the topic or what I learned. I think that I might add some of the pictures from my art journal, and the projects we will be working on called (Art)ifacts.