How to Paint Portraits with Chalk

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Free video about portrait painting. This free video was created for you by http://epsos.de and can be used for free under the creative commons license with the attribution of epSos.de as the original author of this portrait painting video. Thank you for supporting the creative commons movement !! Portrait painting is a genre in painting that shows humans, animals and even inanimate objects. In addition to painting portraits can be made ​​in marble, bronze, ivory, wood, ceramics, etching, lithography, photography, even video and digital media. Portrait Painting can also describe the painted portrait. Portrait Paintings are often commissioned work for public or private, or are inspired by admiration or sympathy for the subject. Portraits are often important records which states and families can use as evidence. When an artist portrays itself, it is called a self-portrait. Portrait Painting has primarily been memories of the rich and powerful. But gradually it became common for the middle class to order portraits of their families and colleagues. Today used portrait painting still by governments, corporations, groups, clubs and individuals. Portrait paintings can be of individuals, couples, parents and children, families or groups. They can be made ​​as oil painting, watercolor, pen and ink, pencil, charcoal, pastel and mixed media. The famous "Mona Lisa Smile" is an excellent example of applying subtle asymmetry to a face. In his notebooks Leonardo gives advice on different qualities of light in portrait painting. One of the innovations of the Renaissance art was better rendering of facial expressions to accompany different emotions. Especially studied the Dutch painter Rembrandt human facial many expressions, he was one of the leaders in the self-portrait painting and painted over 60 in his lifetime. The invention of photography in the 19th century became crucial to portrait painting, and it replaced the earlier camera obscura which had previously been used as an aid in portrait painting. Many modern minded artists flocked to photo studios to take portraits, including Baudelaire, who, although he had appointed the photo to "art's enemy", still felt the pull of photography honesty and strength. The photograph was a cheap alternative to portrait painting, and replaced it on the lower levels. Some realistic artists Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas, were enthusiastic about the photograph, and they used it to help compose their pictures. As Impressionists broke through, they found countless ways to reinterpret the portrait painting, and thus could compete effectively with photography. Distemper is the dominant technique before the advent of oil paint. It allows very fine: fast drying, tempera does not repent and therefore requires careful preparation. The technique is often to apply it in very thin layers superimposed, or very fine hatching, somewhat in the way we use the crayons. Very fragile at first, the paint layer becomes resistant thanks to the transformation of the oil contained in the medium. The surface can then polish with a soft cloth, and varnishing. The chalk is generally made ​​by mixing plaster with water and some other materials such as kaolin, and is expected to it sets inside a special mold. Once you've cured the mixture is removed from the mold and dried. Chalk was originally exclusively from natural chalk (calcium carbonate), a particularly pure, fine-grained and soft form of limestone. Since real chalk is relatively expensive, chalk is today mostly of gypsum (calcium sulfate) or magnesium oxide produced, mixed forms occur (for example, the so-called "Bolognese chalk", gypsum with chalk content). Colorful chalks desired by adding dyes produced. When performing the chalk on a blackboard occasionally emerge squeaky noises, which are perceived by many people as unpleasant. The sound is caused because the chalk stuck permanently while sliding on the board due to the surface friction remains (stick-slip phenomenon) and then the piece of chalk by vibrations in its resonance frequency for resonance is excited. To eliminate the squeak, it helps to break the piece of chalk to a shorter length, so that the natural frequency increases and is no longer in the audible range. Good portrait painters were held in high regard for advanced art. A well-known portrait painter from the Golden Age is Rembrandt van Rijn and his famous group portrait, The Night Watch. Many painters devoted themselves alongside other work, such as landscapes and still lifes too far in making portraits and self-portraits such as Vincent van Gogh, who made ​​such vijfenderig self-portraits during his lifetime. Thank you for supporting the creative commons movement !!