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Varanasi gets country's first special handicraft mega cluster

Edit The Times of India 16 Oct 2016
VARANASI. The parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been gifted with the first special handicraft mega cluster of the country with a fund of Rs. 31 crore to benefit 21,000 artisans of different crafts ... The special mega cluster was introduced for seven crafts including Zardoji, Gulabi Meenakari (pink enameling), wooden toys and craft, soft stone craft, terracotta, glass beads, and hand block printing ... RELATED....

Putnam painter puts live art out on the line

Edit The Miami Herald 16 Oct 2016
With a brightly colored feather in his cap, a bright red neckerchief and two paintbrushes in his hand, Ryan Byrd danced and twirled in the glow of the Ritter Park Amphitheater stage lights, putting the energy and flow of the music into an oil painting that became more magical with every note and beat ... When I paint I go in with no idea, no idea at all ... I am stirring to paint." ....

‘Let these paintings decorate Secretariat walls’

Edit The Hindu 16 Oct 2016
The Bapu Museum was splashed with a hue of colours on Saturday as hundreds of aesthetically framed paintings decorated the spacious halls to draw the attention of revellers thronging the Amaravati Shopping Festival at Swaraj maidan ... “We priced the paintings moderately as per the advice of our District Collector. The paintings are available from Rs....

KT&G; College Student Volunteers to Improve 27 Small Alleys via Wall Painting (KT&G; Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Oct 2016
▶ KT&G; carried out nation-wide volunteer work in 27 regions called 'Paint with Imagination' to improve old alleys via wall paining. 'Sangsang Volunteer' college students paint walls in Ssangmun-dong, Dobong-gu in Seoul. KT&G; (president Bok-in Baek) carried out nation-wide volunteer work in 27 regions called 'Paint with Imagination' to improve old alleys via wall paining....

Painting competition throws light on their talents

Edit The Hindu 16 Oct 2016
Their hearing impairment does not prevent them from developing their talent in their chosen field of painting. Through their paintings, they not only presented a visual treat to the visitors but also highlighted various social issues. The painting contest organised by the Deaf Enabled ... “Every painting has a message behind it,” says A....

Denver artists’ shows look at flowers, and memory and time

Edit Denver Post 16 Oct 2016
They both paint flowers, though not in that colorful, comforting way that brings out instant awe of the planet’s most decorative objects ... She uses simple paper cut-outs and cryptic, gestural paintings to flatten nature’s dimensional qualities and highlight its visual essence ... “Juxtaposed” transforms dozens of her smaller, existing paintings into wholly new — and massive — constructions....

Latest trends in architecture

Edit The Hindu 16 Oct 2016
The event showcases a wide range of building materials right from tiles and marbles, furniture, wood products, paints, designer bath fittings, modular kitchens, toughened glass, electrical products, security systems, paints and surface finishes, corrosion control agents, architectural cornices and mouldings....

How to DIY with kids: Multitasking Moms and Dads

Edit Cleveland 16 Oct 2016
I was painting the iron railing on our gigantic front porch, coating the rusty white metal in sticky, smelly Rustoleum. I was covered in black paint and annoyed that the project seemed never-ending ... Then I looked up, and he was climbing the outside of the front steps, his hands gripping the railing, a stripe of paint staining his new blue soccer T-shirt ... She also really likes to help me tape, in preparation for painting....

With sharp murals, Team Razor Wire transforms neighborhoods

Edit The Buffalo News 16 Oct 2016
Team Razor Wire's "Tower of Power" is coated in reflective gold paint that glows in the early-morning and late-afternoon sun....

Great two-person shows at Gross McLeaf, Snyderman-Works, and Cerulean

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 16 Oct 2016
His new plein-air paintings at Gross McCleaf Gallery capture such familiar sights as the Washington Monument (in the Eakins Oval in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art), Lenape chief Teedyuscung (perched in full headdress on a bluff in the Wissahickon), the Swann Fountain in Logan Square, and the Dying Lioness sculpture at the Philadelphia Zoo....

Beyond Caravaggio review – the force of revelation

Edit The Guardian 16 Oct 2016
This painting – so startling, so morally and psychologically complex – is the high point of the National Gallery’s latest blockbuster, and worth the steep price of admission alone ... What you see in this show is nothing less than a revolution in painting ... What you see in this show is nothing less than a revolution in painting, and in the way that we see it ... It is a most frightening yet beautiful painting....

Shades of grey: a chic south London flat - on a tight budget

Edit The Guardian 16 Oct 2016
Wooden furniture has been painted or stripped back, a favourite standing lamp is repaired with industrial hose clips and her kitchen is a masterclass in where to spend and where to save ... But that was then and this is 2016, when dabbling in paint shades with names such as Down Pipe, Ink and Urbane Grey has become de rigueur ... Yes, her rooms are wrapped in gradations of grey, but the paint shades are ones she mixes herself from pigments....

Women from different dimensions

Edit The Himalayan 16 Oct 2016
KATHMANDU ... Likewise, Thapa Magar in one of her paintings has ignited the feeling of hope, using woman as her motif. In one of her paintings ‘Hope’, she has painted a woman’s portrait in grey ... Singh, using acrylic on canvas, has showcased happy moods of women. In her paintings she has used motifs from Mithila art such as woman, man, swan, flower, cow, geometrical patterns, et cetera to depict the joyful moments in a woman’s life ... ....
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