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Arts and Crafts
Arts and crafts cover many activities
and hobbies that are related to making things with your own hands and limited only by your skill and talent and the
proper art supplies to complement your skills. There are many different crafts you can create with paper or canvas.
Some popular crafts are collage, decoupage, origami, paper-mache and quilling to just to mention a few.
Collage is an artful presentation of materials or objects pasted on a surface and unified with lines and color.
Decoupage is an art technique of decorating some surface with paper cutouts.
Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing flowers and birds.
Paper mache art is created by taking pieces of paper and sticking the pieces together using a wet paste
, glue, starch, or wallpaper adhesive.
Quilling is an art form that where strips of paper are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create
a decorative design. All of these art techniques require the proper supplies.
There are many types of paints for canvas including oils, acrylics, watercolors, and pastels.
Traditional oil painting generally begins with the artist sketching a figure on canvas with charcoal. The artist creates his figure on canvas in layers. The basic rule of oil paint application is that each additional layer of paint should contain more oil than the layer below it in order to proper dry.
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