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How to Make Your Own Paint. Living Published on April 26th, 2010 | by ziggy Did you know that you can make your own safe and non-toxic paints from common household ingredients, without resorting to either dangerous conventional paints or expensive non-V.O.C. varieties? Using ingredients such as milk, wheat flour, and linseed oil, you can create paints for various surfaces that will not off-gas dangerous compounds that can be hazardous to your health. You can be creative and make your own earth pigment paints for little money! Why to avoid conventional paints It has been reported by the EPA that indoor air is two to five times more polluted than outdoor air, and is considered one of the top five human health hazards. Perhaps part of that problem is the fact that conventional paints have volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, toxic chemicals like benzene and formaldehyde.

Thankfully, there are low- and zero-VOC paints available, but at $50-80 a gallon, they are quite expensive. How to make your own paint from milk. How to Make Natural Paint. Make Safe, Natural Paint. If you’d like to create a warm and inviting living space, consider using homemade, eco-friendly natural paint. Using natural materials is a great way to bring the outdoors in, and they’re easier on your home because they can allow painted surfaces to release moisture naturally. Plus, most commercially manufactured paints contain toxic materials or petroleum-based ingredients that are energy-intensive to produce. There are several eco-friendly options on the market, but their cost (up to twice as much as conventional paint) can be prohibitive to painters on a budget. Many DIYers are choosing instead to make their own paint.

Creating your own paint is considerably less expensive and can be an extremely satisfying endeavor for anyone whose goal is self-reliance. Mixing your own paint is sometimes the only way to achieve a specific color or effect. In fact, natural paints offer unique finishes very different from those of manufactured products. What’s in a Gallon? Pigments. Binders.

Fillers. ‪Intro to "green"/eco-friendly paints‬‏ A List of Eco-Friendly Art and Craft Supplies – Crafting a Green World. I would love a good database of eco-art and craft supplies, wouldn’t you? In our blogroll we have links to companies that offer eco-goods, but it is not an exhaustive list. So, I have been adding to this start, a list of sites and companies that offer great eco-craft goods. Feel free to leave comments and links of any that I may have missed so we can have a great go to resource when in the need for eco-friendly craft supplies. Basic Eco-Art Supplies Eco Art Works A lot of green art supplies. Racines Office and Art Supplies An eco-conscious company that sells environmentally friendly art and office supplies, carries Nori rice paste (glue) and Golden Harvest Wheat Paste in addition to other beautiful and natural art supplies. Amazing EcoGlue Low/No VOC earth friendly craft glue.

Eco-Friendly Paint The Real Milk Paint Company The original milk paint company. Eco-Ribbons. A graffiti artist ditches toxic spray-paint for eco-friendly DIY pigments : This Magazine // Canadian progressive politics, environment, art, culture // Subscribe today. "Chickadeeday" (2010) by Stefan Thompson. Image courtesy the artist. Click to enlarge. Pablo Picasso had his so-called blue period.

Ottawa artist Stefan Thompson is exploring a green period. Thompson first made a name for himself on the streets of the capital as a graffiti artist. Working under the pseudonym Maki, Thompson populated nooks and alleys throughout the city’s downtown with a menagerie of dazzlingly rendered and brilliantly coloured animal forms. It was as though the techno-coloured spirit-creatures painted by Norval Morrisseau had burst forth from their canvases and stormed the walls of the nation’s capital.

Stefan Thompson in his Ottawa studio. But three years ago, as Thompson was emerging as an artist under his own name, this time working on canvas, his work took a radical shift. Let’s be friends! “It was guilt, and a certain degree of knowledge about the environment that I picked up in university,” Thompson says of his motivation. "Hold You" (2010) by Stefan Thompson. Michael Jones McKean. Poema Curriculum Vitae de Silvia Elena Regalado.

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Decalcomania. Sadler's Wells Theatre - London's Dance House. Arts Council England. Paul Cézanne. Paul Cézanne (US /seɪˈzæn/ or UK /sɨˈzæn/; French: [pɔl sezan]; 1839–1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism.

Both Matisse and Picasso are said to have remarked that Cézanne "is the father of us all. " §Life and work[edit] §Early years and family[edit] Femme au Chapeau Vert (Woman in a Green Hat. §Cézanne the artist[edit] In Paris, Cézanne met the Impressionist Camille Pissarro. §Optical phenomena[edit] §Death[edit] . .: e p i s t e m o l o g y :. ..

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Cheap Tosca Theater Tickets. Florida Weather in November - November Events and Festivals in Florida - Florida Events and Festivals in November. October < November > December November Weather Average TemperaturesDaytona Bch: High 77°-Low 57° Fort Myers: High 81°-Low 62° Jacksonville: High 73°-Low 51° Key West: High 81°-Low 72° Miami: High 78°-Low 70° Orlando: High 79°-Low 59° Panama City: High 71°-Low 47° Pensacola: High 70°-Low 51° Tallahassee: High 73°-Low 48° Tampa: High 78°-Low 61° West Palm Bch: High 80°-Low 66° 10-Day Forecast Average Water Temperatures The water temperature for the Gulf of Mexico (West Coast) and the Atlantic Ocean (East Coast) typically in the high 70s from Central Florida north and the low 80s in the southernmost part of the state.

Best Time to Go Surprisingly, the theme parks are not too crowded this month. November Events Florida's Fall Festivals Whether it's with peanuts or turn-of-the-century style, Floridians take to the streets in a variety of fall art and craft festivals. Florida Seafood Festival November 1 & 2, 2013The two-day Florida Seafood Festival is the state's oldest maritime celebration. Writing Coach Program. Caliphate. In its earliest days, the first caliphate, the Rashidun Caliphate, exhibited elements of direct democracy (shura).[1] It was led, at first, by Muhammad's immediate disciples and family as a continuation of the religious systems he had introduced. The Sunni branch of Islam stipulates that as a head of state, a caliph should be elected by Muslims or their representatives.[2] Followers of Shia Islam, however, believe a caliph should be an Imam chosen by God (Allah) from the Ahl al-Bayt (the "Family of the House", Muhammad's direct descendents).

From the end of the Rashidun period until 1924, caliphates, sometimes two at a single time, real and illusory, were ruled by dynasties. The first of these was the Umayyad dynasty, followed by the Abbasid, the Fatimid and finally the Ottoman dynasty. The caliphate was "the core leader concept of Sunni Islam, by the consensus of the Muslim majority in the early centuries".[3] History[edit] Rashidun (632–661)[edit] Rashidun Caliphate at its greatest extent. The Lifespan of A Dollar Bill | Where Has That Dollar Bill Been? Ever thought about the spare that dollar bill before you pass it through the drive-up window at your local Starbuck’s? If you’re like most people, probably not much. But consider this: that dollar bill might have traveled the world. Other unlucky bills may have never left your home town. Some bills are marked with ballpoint graffiti; with poor old George Washington have a new pair of glasses.

Your dollar bill may even have phone number printed on its backside. It’s probably best not to call it. While dollar bills get around, they don’t live long. The Brief Life of a Dollar Bill The average dollar bill has an estimated life span of 5.9 years, according to the Federal Reserve. Dollar bills get roughed-up a lot by cashiers, beaten on doughnut counters, exposed to misbehaved children at supermarkets and run-over by your car. The $5 bill has a life span of 4.9 years while the $10 comes in at 4.2 years.

The $2 What? If you think that the U.S. Comments comments. Virtual Instruments, Virtual Effects, VST Plugins, Audio Units (AU), DirectX (DX), Universal Binary Compatibility - Audio Plugin News, Reviews and Community. EXPOARTESANIAS. UnScene :: Urban Navigator :: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, and more. Subtext Gallery - Little Italy - San Diego. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Biography[edit] Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City in 1967.[1] He emigrated to Canada in 1985 to study at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and then at Concordia University in Montreal.[2] The son of Mexico City nightclub owners, Mr.

Lozano-Hemmer was drawn to science but could not resist joining the creative activities that his friends did.[3] Initially he worked in a molecular recognition lab in Montreal[4] and published his research in Chemistry journals,[5] a far cry from his now famous installation works that are featured around the world. Though he did not pursue the sciences as a direct career, it has influenced his work in many ways,[6] providing conceptual inspiration and practical approaches to create his work. Mr. Lozano-Hemmer’s work can be considered a blend of interactive art and performance art, using both large and small scales, indoor and outdoor settings, and a wide variety of audiovisual technologies.[7] Artworks[edit] Text art[edit]

Net.art. Net.art refers to a group of artists who have worked in the medium of Internet art since 1994. The main members of this movement are Vuk Ćosić, Jodi.org, Alexei Shulgin, Olia Lialina, and Heath Bunting (irational.org, Daniel García Andújar, Heath Bunting, Rachel Baker and Minerva Cuevas). Although this group was formed as a parody of avant garde movements by writers such as Tilman Baumgärtel, Josephine Bosma, Hans Dieter Huber and Pit Schultz, their individual works have little in common. The term "net.art" is also used as a synonym for net art or Internet art and covers a much wider range of artistic practices. In this wider definition, net.art means art that uses the Internet as its medium and that cannot be experienced in any other way. Often net.art has the Internet as (part of) its subject matter but this is not required. History of the net.art movement[edit] The net.art movement arose in the context of the wider development of Internet art.

Online social networks[edit] See also[edit] Bhutan Portal. Bhutan Portal. Portugalia Restaurant & Venue. Open Mic San Diego. Bande à part. David Choe “Nothing to Declare” Exhibition Preview. SAN DIEGO MUSEUM of ART | Balboa Park's Largest Art Collection. Vincent van Gogh Gallery - Welcome! The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: metmuseum.org. JOURNEY OF MANKIND - The Peopling of the World. Glass Academy. Whole Earth Catalog Stay Hungry Stay Foolish.