Kick-Start the Weekend
Posts to kick-start the weekend, usually with musical content.
Painting Winter Woods
If you’re stuck inside, with all this winter snow, this step-by-step process of how to paint snow in the winter woods is a great instructional exercise to pass the time using pastel painting with watercolors. I’ve never used the two together and this was highly informative — particularly for achieving that translucent hue of snow. How do you paint white with color? It’s perplexing but Christine Kane on Art Instruction Blog makes it look easy. See how she goes from this reference photo to her final painting. One Tree Hill by U2 seems a good way to Kick Start the weekend early and in hopes that 2011 gets off to…
Christmas Week
With just two days before Christmas, I thought I’d continue with a mix of Christmas oriented murals, wintry scenes and music. I usually don’t like modern murals with biblical or religious oriented murals, but these are very well done by Keith Goodson for Champions Church in Winter Haven, Florida. He seems to have found the right balance between realism and stylistic portrayal that appears alive and dynamic. Another Christmas-like mention for this week would have to be the cover of The Washington Post‘s Book World, which makes a comeback at this time annually, whereas it used to be a regular Sunday section feature but was dropped in 2009. I thought…
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A Little Floor Fun
Keeping with the floor design concept of the last post, here are some other ideas to really mix up your decor while thinking of the floor as a decorative element. This is a great, out of the box idea playing up on concentric circles from DeWorld. I just saw this one over the weekend at the Washington DC Design Center in their Design House, which is closing this week. This floor is by Kelley Proxmire. It’s based on a David Hicks design. It’s painted, eco-friendly bamboo flooring, which has some cushion to it. I absolutely love it. Click here to read more on casartblog regarding a post about the Interior…
