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Acrylic Painting Tips for Beginners

Acrylic paints offer bold colors and a smooth consistency.Palette with oil paints image by petercoupe from Fotolia.comLearning to paint can be intimidating. Brushes, canvases, palettes and mixing colors can seem overwhelming at first to novice painters. But with a few brushes, paint and...

How to Paint a Six Panel Wooden Door

Six-panel wooden doors contain sunken areas that give the door a classic, three-dimensional look. If you plan to paint a six-panel wooden door, you must prepare the wood to accept paint, or the finish will eventually fail. In addition, because six-panel doors have sunken areas, they are prone to pai

How to Use Satin Latex Paint on Wood Floors

Satin latex paint is designed to be applied to wood floors. The word "satin" refers to the sheen or shine of the paint. Paint comes in five sheen levels: flat, eggshell, satin, semi-gloss and high-gloss. Satin has a low sheen that doesn't reflect as much light as do gloss paints, and holds up better

How to Restore Painted Bricks

If you want to restore painted bricks to their natural beauty, you need to find a way to remove the paint without damaging the brick. Brick easily crumbles under pressure and will not look its best if you use a harsh paint removal method, such as sandblasting. Instead, use a gel paint remover, which

How to Paint Curved Drywall Corners

Rounded drywall corners are easier to paint than square corners, but there are techniques that should be used when painting. Rounded drywall can be at various angles, but the most common will be horizontal and vertical. Horizontal corners require a side to side stroke while vertical corners require

Homemade Subwoofer Box

While many subwoofer boxes are offered online and at car audio stores, you can save money building your own. You just need two 10-inch car audio specific woofers, plywood, some specialized carpeting for aesthetics and knowledge of basic wood-working.

How to Remove Chipped Lead Paint

Removing chipped or peeling lead paint requires that you take extreme precautions. You cannot just go in and start scraping, especially if you have children. Lead paint is known to cause serious health problems, mental disorders and even death. The room that you will work in must be completely seale

How to Draw a Dilophosaurus

The half-ton, 193 million-year-old carnivorous dinosaur known as the dilophosaurus is perhaps best known for snacking on actor Wayne Knight's character in the 1993 movie "Jurassic Park." With its signature double crests, the dinosaur undoubtedly stuck an imposing figure on the prehistoric landscape,

How to Draw Real-Life Faces

Drawing realistic human faces can be one of the most difficult aspects of drawing. Problems with proportion are frequent and can be hard to master. An effective way to begin drawing realistic human faces is to use a real person or a photograph as a guide. Learning to draw realistic faces takes patie

How to Draw Gorillas Step-by-Step

The gorilla is the largest species of primates. Drawing a gorilla offers the challenge of capturing its simian elements as well as those features that have a humanlike quality. Drawing a gorilla accurately can be challenging, but you can draw one using simple lines and geometric shapes.

Facts About Modern Photography. Learn More Here.

Once the birth of the camera arrived and the popularity of photography exploded, the only thing that could follow was mass production of cameras as well as the wide distribution of pictures. As a result ...

What Is Draw Firing?

Draw firing, or draw and fire, involves the specialized basic or advanced skills of drawing a single action or semiautomatic handgun from a holster and firing rounds into a target. Drawing from the hip and firing is commonplace in police and security training realms, where hand-eye coordination, dep

DIY Enamel Logos on Plastic

Logos are an important means of expression and/or advertising for amateurs and professionals alike. Applying enamel logos to plastic, such as on a building sign or a hard hat, is a beneficial way to spread the word about your new company. Following a few simple steps, your enamel logo will attach re

Combination of Paintings to Form a Collage

The combinations of several objects, including paintings and pictures, make a Collage... In the early 1960s, Robert Rauschenberg, an American artist and a Graphic Designer, gave the idea of combining several paintings to make it ...

How to Clean a Dirty Sanding Belt

Excessive use of sanders can cause the sanding belt to become clogged with saw dust and residue. This diminishes the effectiveness of the belt and can make a simple sanding job extra tedious. Because of the high cost of sanding belts, it is not feasible to simply discard them when they become dirty.

Paint Sprayers vs. Rollers

Paint sprayers and paint rollers are popular tools for applying paint. Each is uniquely suited for a specific application. Many painters prefer one or the other.

Canvas Painting Tips

Canvas painting is a great tradition in art. Most painters will at one time or another in their career wish to try canvas painting, even if they do not normally do so. This type of painting may seem a little intimidating to those who normally paint on paper or another surface. It does require a litt

Exterior Paint Scraping Tips

You knew you this project was coming. You are now ready to tackle the scraping and painting of the exterior of your home. Painting the outside of your home is a big project to take on. The key is to break the project into parts and not overload yourself. Before painting your home, some preparation m

How to Draw Wooden Shoes

Wooden shoes come from The Netherlands where they date back as far as 1367. Dutch wooden shoes are shaped like clogs and often are painted in bright colors and designs. Drawing a picture of a wooden shoe is not difficult, as they do not have laces or a separate sole. Therefore, drawing a wooden shoe