Drawing pictures and images with charcoal has been a very old practice. However the use of charcoal as a medium of drawing has surely evolved down the years from cave paintings to cartoons. The rules for drawing with charcoal are quite different from drawing with pencils or ink. Therefore, we are listing down some of the very important principles which are needed to be followed while drawing with charcoal. They are:
You need to draw very loosely while drawing with charcoal. You must keep in mind that charcoal does not capture minute and intricate details very well. So only when you are trying to draw something huge and broad with sweeping free strokes, you can choose charcoal as the medium for drawing. The style which needs to be adapted while drawing with charcoal is very uninhibited.
Make sure you take a large paper to draw on. This is because, charcoal is associated with large and free strokes and therefore you will need space to accommodate them. Make sure that you have enough room to stand back and use your entire arm for giving those free and broad strokes.
Incase you want to blend or soften the lines that you have drawn using charcoal, do so with your fingertip. Do not use a blending stub for this purpose as this will lead to a dimension less drawing.
To add or remove highlights from your charcoal drawing, you can use a putty eraser. Putty eraser is very helpful in removing charcoal and thereby makes the process of adding highlights very easy and simple. You can also use a moist piece of bread molded into a ball for the purpose of removing charcoal and adding highlights to your picture.
Remember to set your final drawing with a fixative. You can use spray adhesive for your artwork.
Let us now turn our attention to another important aspect of knowing how to protect charcoal drawings.
After having finished with your drawing, remove any dust or stray particles from it. Then you will have to lay out your drawing on a flat surface.
Make sure to tape all the corners of the paper on the flat surface. This is done to save the papers from curling while fixative is being applied.
Take the aerosol fixative and holding it at arm's length, depress the nozzle.
Now keep on holding the fixative still and start moving your arm back and forth, so that the entire picture gets covered with it.
You will have to wait for 10 minutes for the fixative to dry.
Charcoal paintings are very lovely to look at and they require certain care from our end. If we learn to preserve charcoal drawings in the proper manner, they will remain with us for many years without losing their shine.
Watch a video instruction on how to draw with charcoal
Drawing is actually a fun activity and many people do it as a hobby. But there are people who take up drawing and art as a profession. Animals are an interesting subject for artists all over the world. And among animals, dogs are considered to be very popular. Whether you want to draw a dog as the centerpiece or as a supplement to the existing scenery, dogs always make drawing all the more fascinating. Drawing dogs is not at all difficult. With just a little bit of practice, one can master the art of drawing dogs. Let us see how we can learn to draw a dog by using color pencils. The things required for it are:
Color pencils
Sketch pad
So let's get on with the act of drawing a dog using color pencils!
To begin with, let us use a lead pencil to draw the basic shapes of a dog. These shapes are usually the same for every dog, just the proportions change incase you are drawing dogs of different breeds. Draw a triangle upside down and make sure to draw it lightly. Inside the triangle, draw another small upside down triangle which defines the snout area. Now you will need to add a couple of circles for the ears and a square to represent the chest area. Draw a rectangle which shall represent the rest of the body and remember to draw elongated circles for the leg portions.
After the basic shapes have been drawn out, we have to now refine the drawing. There will be corner and edges in the shapes that you have drawn, just erase them and replace with lines. Take the help of a color pencil now. Use that color which will be the main color for the fur of the dog. Using the color pencil, replace the lines with a more polished shaping of the dog's body. The shapes that you had initially drawn basically act as place holders for the different proportions of the dog's features.
After having finished with the outer body, start working on the nose, eyes and other features of the dog's face. Shape the snout with a lead pencil so that the nose becomes more prominent. Draw the eyes and then add the brows.
Taking into consideration the breed of dog that you are drawing, choose the color pencil for the fur. Make the lines stand out while drawing the fur. Do not forget to add some kind of shading to the dog's midsection and leg joints. This helps in bringing out the body tone. To add more effect, add shadows for giving a 3D impression.
To give life to your dog, just make the lines of the fur stand out. This gives a more realistic feel to the drawing. Darken the colors around the brows and eyes and ears. Even if you are using one single color, using faint variations of that same color will add tons of effect to your drawing.
A play dough, better known as, play-doh is one sort of a clay for children that is edible and made of specific proportions of flour, salt and water such that the consistency of the dough lets you mold them in desired shapes. Play dough has been gaining popularity rapidly lot more than the chemical clay owing to the fact that it is not only harmless but also is edible. Keeping in mind the fact that children often have the tendency to take things to mouth at a younger age, the polyvinyl chloride clay material is now being replaced with the edible play dough. Now you could be assured that all is well even if you are not around while your child is engaged molding shapes.
You could either prefer to make simple play dough or an elaborate one.
In order to make simple play dough, all you need to do is gather the necessary ingredients and allow your kid to begin mixing them which in itself could become your child's favorite sport.
For this, take a cup full of salt and an equal amount of flour in a hardy mixing bowl and let your child mix the contents thoroughly. You could either employ a plastic spoon or let your child soil hands.
Slowly commence adding one cup of water to this mixture and let the mixing go on.
Further kneading could be carried out with bare hands to produce smooth and flexible dough that is your play dough.
Place them on a floured plane and mould into different shapes as desired.
Children could throw a tantrum at the play dough that is not only made too easily but is uncolored too. Understandably, what could it be to have a play-clay that is not brilliantly colored? A recipe that could be employed to make colorful clay and that which could be stocked after each use could probably make your child happier.
For this, mix equal volume (1 cup) of flour and salt. To it add half a cup each of water and vegetable oil, followed by a teaspoon of cream of tarter.
For appropriate mixing, heat the contents on a stove in medium heat and stir constantly. This must not exceed five minutes.
Allow it to cool such that the play dough is set to the desired consistency and is no more gooey.
The most loved step for kids in making play dough is coloring. For this separate your play dough into various sections after you flatten them with a rolling pin. Add different food colors to each section as red, blue, yellow and green. You could yield different shades of play dough by reducing or increasing the amount of color or mixing one or more colors. With this you could obtain shades like light or dark green, orange, purple and so on.
The colorful play dough balls are now ready to be molded into various thoughtful shapes and stored in a refrigerator within an air-tight container for subsequent use.
Watch a video instruction on how to make play dough
Being a lone man or woman could be enjoyable but only for a certain time period and then the need of having a friend or a group of friends just for you becomes overpowering. There is then the weirdest phase in life one could ever pass through. And if this is one of those phases of your life, letting the phase to prolong and remain forever in fear of socializing could prove to be an unintelligent thing to do. But then, where is the exigency of letting yourself getting into such a phase and remain there when there is every little way of getting over it.
The need to socialize could arise anytime and anywhere, whether you join a new job or relocate to an entirely new place. The ability to make friends spontaneously is in itself a talent and some need to hone it more than others. Bearing in mind certain important tips and implementing them could make things easier.
Become aware of your talents and seek ways of developing them. For instance join a club to develop yourself in your favorite sport such as table tennis, golf or chess. Or join a swimming club or a music or dance academy. Even, joining a gym to keep you fit could fetch you many opportunities to make friends. Do not miss any of the parties or get-together where you are an invitee.
Once you find yourself socializing in an entirely new group, do not be in a hurry to make friends. Dress up according to the occasion and make yourself comfortable. Talk less and smile more. Do not speak gibberish in an attempt to fill in awkward gaps.
If you are in a group, you could continue a conversation rather than opening up one in the first go. Look into the eyes while talking to a fellow person and be attentive. A good and attentive listener is the one who is most sought out especially in a group.
Introduce yourself humbly and do not proceed unless you are welcomed. If you find people incompatible and peculiar, leave your attempt of making friends half way. Try not to be over-friendly.
Plan a get-together or a useful gathering at your place. However at every step analyze people and do not place your trust completely initially. Doing so could save you from disastrous friends. So choosing friends carefully is most imperative since having a depraved friend circle is worse than having no friend circle.
Once you have chosen your friends and have become an accepted part of your society, it is time to be a good friend yourself. For this, be a helpful, trustworthy and honest friend. Develop the habit of keeping secret and never gossip!
More than making friends, keeping them forever is what matters. Be yourself and never boast about anything. During a conversation, make sure you do not bring up sensitive issues that could hurt the one you are conversing with.
Before getting on to the task of building a compost bin, let us first understand what the word "compost" means. Compost literally means a kind of garden soil which is made up from a mixture of weeds, leaves, kitchen waste; straw, contaminated water etc. This soil is an excellent source of natural fertilizer and can be used for our gardens. You can very easily build a compost bin at your home. Let us assemble the things which are required for doing this.
Four wooden pallets
Four bolt latches
32 wood screws/bailing wire
The process for making a compost bin is given below:
First determine the height and width of the compost bin that you are making. For our purposes, let us consider a bin of 36" of height and 25" wide on each side.
You will need 4 wooden pallets which are cut to 36" in height and 25" in width. You can buy it from the market or cut the pallets at home also. You will need a saw to cut the wood pieces at home.
You will need to purchase 36 screws and 4 bolt latches for the purpose of tautening the bin.
Now you need to join three wooden pallets by screwing them together tightly. To support the pallets, you have to insert the screws at equal distances. But incase you are using wire instead of screws, then you will have to tie the wires tightly to support the pallets.
Now take the fourth pallet and fix it just opposite to the back pallet and then screw it tightly.
Take the bolt latches and fasten them on the fourth pallet. This pallet will be the front of your bin and shall serve as the door of the compost bin.
Your compost bin is now ready for use.
Watch a video instruction on how to make a compost bin
Drawing pictures and images with charcoal has been a very old practice. However the use of charcoal as a medium of drawing has surely evolved down the years from cave paintings to cartoons. The rules for drawing with charcoal are quite different from drawing with pencils or ink. Therefore, we are listing down some of the very important principles which are needed to be followed while drawing with charcoal. They are:
Drawing is actually a fun activity and many people do it as a hobby. But there are people who take up drawing and art as a profession. Animals are an interesting subject for artists all over the world. And among animals, dogs are considered to be very popular. Whether you want to draw a dog as the centerpiece or as a supplement to the existing scenery, dogs always make drawing all the more fascinating. Drawing dogs is not at all difficult. With just a little bit of practice, one can master the art of drawing dogs. Let us see how we can learn to draw a dog by using color pencils. The things required for it are:
chest area. Draw a rectangle which shall represent the rest of the body and remember to draw elongated circles for the leg portions.
A play dough, better known as, play-doh is one sort of a clay for children that is edible and made of specific proportions of flour, salt and water such that the consistency of the dough lets you mold them in desired shapes. Play dough has been gaining popularity rapidly lot more than the chemical clay owing to the fact that it is not only harmless but also is edible. Keeping in mind the fact that children often have the tendency to take things to mouth at a younger age, the polyvinyl chloride clay material is now being replaced with the edible play dough. Now you could be assured that all is well even if you are not around while your child is engaged molding shapes.
Being a lone man or woman could be enjoyable but only for a certain time period and then the need of having a friend or a group of friends just for you becomes overpowering. There is then the weirdest phase in life one could ever pass through. And if this is one of those phases of your life, letting the phase to prolong and remain forever in fear of socializing could prove to be an unintelligent thing to do. But then, where is the exigency of letting yourself getting into such a phase and remain there when there is every little way of getting over it.
Before getting on to the task of building a compost bin, let us first understand what the word "compost" means. Compost literally means a kind of garden soil which is made up from a mixture of weeds, leaves, kitchen waste; straw, contaminated water etc. This soil is an excellent source of natural fertilizer and can be used for our gardens. You can very easily build a compost bin at your home. Let us assemble the things which are required for doing this.
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