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The most authentic Japanese Garden outside of Japan, the Portland Japanese Garden is a haven of tranquil beauty in all four seasons.

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Whenever zen is talked about, the first thing that comes to mind is a place where people can find their inner peace or a place for relaxation – like a place where we do our yoga or maybe the spa. Today, we will focus more on spaces in our own homes wherein this feel is achieved, other than our bedrooms, we are pretty sure, you would love going home and seeing a living room which is uncluttered, clean, organized and really relaxing. As a friend of ours say, it is usually the scented candles that do the trick. But, in the real world where kids are present and lighting candles is not really an option, designers often go for the lighting treatment which the house will extrude a feel of comfort and zen.

When we see the path ahead we no longer need to know were we are going.

Anonymous

Zen and the art of authentic living

To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.

William Blake

A zen inspired design is all about natural colours, in soft tones, such as white, grey, shades of beige or pink beige, which have the power to induce a sense of relaxation and calmness. Chromatic harmony between the various elements is very important, as well as the visual continuity between walls, furniture and floors. In order to add contour to a monochrome room, you may always choose to combine a dominant colour with matching objects and textured textiles such as white with moleskin or beige with rosewood. To create diversity combine two matching colours or play with degrades of your favorite colour.

For a fully relaxing space, replace harsh florescent lights with calming, nature-inspired or candle lights. Place different sources of light which will allow you to control the intensity and the areas to be lighted. Avoid projecting a strong direct light from the ceiling and take advantage of all possibilities to mix a floor lamp, a lamp set and indirect light. Zen style furniture is characterized by simple and clear lines, avoiding complicated detail and excess ornamentation. Storage pieces (closets, cupboards, chests of drawers) may be brought to life if painted in colours matching the rest of the interior. For the bed area, wall-mounted reading lights are very practical as they can be oriented to emphasize the respective area, unlike bedside lamps which are flexible. If you like diffused light, you may opt for some nice candles.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

my City Oasis

by Britta Bonette

Finding a quiet place where you are surrounded by beautiful and restful sounds and sights of nature, is almost a must in our fastpaced world. Recently, I found myself moving back to a busy metro in the Pacific Northwest but was lucky to find a small but loveley apartment. I am a gardener at heart and equipped with a bright green thumb, so I was grateful to have found this little piece of urban paradise. I have a corner balcony next to an unuccupied and undeveloped piece of land, so I have lots of green to look at. This is truly a saving grace for me, as this my little “oasis” has given me so much joy and peace. Until I can find a “real” garden of my own, this is my flowering heaven in the midst of all the the noise and chaos.

A bumble bee caught buzzing around in my Nasturtiums all summer long, feverishly bulding their nectar reserv.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

— Luther Burbank

My all time favourite is the Morning Glory. Every morning it surprises me with a brand new gorgeus flower opening its bright eye to the sky.

I am sharing this short pictoral story about my oasis to show the joy this has given me. I have so much love for all the growing plants that surrounds me and the beauty and peace I feel while spending time in my flower garden. Ever since I was a little girl, I would find a corner somewhere where I could find peace, solitude and even some room for imagination, play and fanatsy. It could be by the rocks down by the lake or in the forest under a tree. Finding comfort in solitude is a wonderful gift. In our noisy, distracting and electronic environment we live in, it’s important to have that special corner where we can have our own oasis and to really notice the world by out feet; listening to the insects on the ground (did you know even ants have a voice?), the birds, crickets, dragonflies, bees and even an occational fly. Go out there today, find a corner in your world where you can have your own quiet oasis

Oil & Acrylic Techniques

There are many different ways to approach a blank support. Some artists begin by toning (or covering) it with a thin wash of color. This “underpainting” provides a base for building colors, and sometimes it peeks through in the final painting. This process prevents your final artwork from ending up with unpainted areas. The underpainting is generally a neutral color; warm colors work well for earth-toned subjects, and cool hues suit most other subjects.

Tiger Lily

CHAPTER 1

Flower Portraits

Still Lifes

Chapter 2

with Judy Schafers and Marcia Baldwin

with Linda Yurgensen

Painting Animals in Oil

Just as a portrait of a person must capture the personality of the sitter, a successful flower portrait must convey the unique characteristics and natural beauty of the subject. Colors should be true and texture accurate to the point that viewers can feel the flower simply by looking at it. The step-by-step lessons in this chapter show how to create dynamic flower paintings that achieve these important traits. They’ll also inspire you to use your freshly honed skills to paint other flower portraits with your own special touch.

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the paint. Although you can technically paint straight from the tube, most artists add medium to extend the paint and to build an oil painting in the traditional “fat over lean” layering process. The drying oils and resins mentioned on the following pages can be used as mediums, but the term “medium” in oil painting generally refers to mix of oil and solvent, with the solvent accelerating the drying process. Because oil-based paints do not mix with water, artists traditionally use solvents for paint thinning and cleanup. If you choose to purchase a solvent, be sure it is intended for fine-art

Animal Features & Textures

draw in the shape of the eye and the pupil with my number 00 round brush. While the paint is wet, mix burnt sienna and burnt umber and paint the dark brown iris. To soften the outer edge, mix burnt sienna with just bit of burnt umber and shade around the outer part of the eye. When the paint is dry thin some cadmium yellow and paint a soft brush stroke to the left of the pupil to show some light reflection. I add highlights to the eye with white and a bit of ultramarine blue.

Long Fur for Tails & Manes

This example is of a dog’s long fluffy tail, but you can use the same technique for horse manes and tails. To achieve this fluffy texture the background needs to be wet so the paint blends. Use a slow-drying medium if you are working with acrylics to keep your paint wet. build up the background in three layers using a mix of burnt umber and burnt sienna. I let each layer dry before applying the next, making the last layer slightly thicker than the first two. When I’m happy with the background paint the tail while the last layer of paint is wet. For the dark cream undercolor use mix of yellow ochre and bit of burnt sienna. With my large no. 8 filbert brush I use sweeping brush stokes to flick the brush up into the wet background color, starting at the center of the tail. Then lighten my cream mix by adding some white and use the same brush and technique to flick in highlights.

tip of the nose. With my round 00 brush make a diluted mix of cadmium red with a little bit of alizarin crimson and white for the pink color on the lower nose. While wet, mix more white into the color mix and paint the lighter pink color. Doing so while the paint is still wet blends the colors, avoiding hard edges. If you use acrylics you can use slow-drying medium to allow you to blend the colors while the paint is wet. Once dry use my round 00 brush to add the fur texture on the bridge of the nose with mix of burnt umber and little white.

Ears use similar technique for ears as for tails. First I paint thin layer of a burnt sienna and burnt umber mix with my no. 8 filbert brush for the darker ear color. For the center of the ear I use a thin mixture of cadmium red and little alizarin crimson. When dry, paint a thin layer of burnt umber over the pink to tone it down. Once dry, I start my next layer. Using my no. 3 round brush mix burnt umber with some white to create beige. Painting in the direction the fur grows, flick some fur texture on the ear. clean my brush and mix raw sienna and some white for cream. Using the same brush strokes, flick on more fur texture. The beige color is still wet so the cream blends in slightly for soft, fluffy look. do the same technique with some white paint and then let the painting dry. add more white highlights where needed. To get a soft, fluffy look, be careful not to use paint that is too thick.

art instruction book ”The Art of Painting Animals” [page 2 of 3]: book layout /© Walter Foster—Quarto Publishing

Tip like to have my reference photos as close to the painting as possible so that don’t have to change my seated position as paint. My glass palette is taped to the right of the painting and it has been toned a similar color to the canvas. This makes mixing and matching colors much easier than if were using a white palette. continue to block in the face and also start to work outwards on to the sky and tree branch.

art instruction book ”The Art of Painting Animals” [page 3 of 3]: book layout /© Walter Foster—Quarto Publishing

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kid’s art instruction book “Learn to Draw Birds & Butterflies” [page 1 of 2]: book layout / © Walter Foster—Quarto Publishing

How to Use This Book Tools & Materials

There’s more than one way to bring birds and butterflies to life on paper—you can use crayons, markers, colored pencils, or even paints. Just be sure you have black plus plenty of bright colors—yellows, oranges, blues, greens, and purples.

The drawings in this book are made up of basic shapes, such as circles, triangles, and rectangles. Practice drawing the shapes below.

Bird Basics Butterfly Basics

Birds are feathered animals with excellent vision. They have wings and light bones (some of which are hollow), allowing most species to fly through the air. Birds do not give birth to live young; instead, they lay hard-shelled eggs in a nest. Many birds are also known for their pleasant chirps, calls, and whistles.

Bird Nesting

Because bird eggs are vulnerable to cold temperatures and predators, birds tend to them in their nests, keeping them warm and safe until they hatch. Once the chicks break through their shells, the parents continue to help their babies by delivering food and even chewing it up for them!

Dinosaurs might look more like lizards, but birds are actually their closest relatives on earth today!

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Fun Fact!

Butterflies are beautiful winged insects. They feed on the nectar of flowers along with some insects, such as aphids. Like bees, they can help pollinate flowers. These animals are not born as butterflies; they hatch out of an egg as a caterpillar first!

Fun Fact!

The lifespan of a butterfly varies depending on the species. Most adult butterflies live for about two weeks. However, some caterpillars become a chrysalis that can live for two years before hatching into a butterfly!

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

1. An adult butterfly lays an egg.

2. The egg hatches into a caterpillar (or larva).

3. The caterpillar becomes a chrysalis (or pupa).

4. The chrysalis hatches into and butterfly.

5. The butterfly dries off its wings and flies away! The cycle repeats.

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kid’s art instruction book “Learn to Draw Birds & Butterflies” [page 2 of 2]: book layout / © Walter Foster—Quarto Publishing

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

This bird has iridescent feathers and a patch of red over its throat. It also has a long, thin beak designed to collect nectar from flowers.

The ruby-throated hummingbird beats its wings about 50 times per second!

Monarch Butterfly

The monarch butterfly is known for its bright orange, black, and white coloring. It is the only butterfly that makes a two-way migration based on the seasons.

The easy-to-spot monarch butterfly does not need to blend into its environment. Its bright appearance warns predators that it is poisonous and unpleasant in taste!

Did You Know?

During cold nights, the ruby-throated hummingbird experiences periods of sleep or inactivity called “torpor.” In this state, the bird’s heart rate and body temperature drop to help it conserve energy.

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Tools & Materials

is the simplest medium. However, you can also find mediums and additives made specifically for acrylic paint. A range of gels, pastes, and additives allow artists to alter the behavior and properties of acrylic paint, such as extending the drying time or creating a coarse texture.

Color Basics

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colors are red, blue, and yellow. With these you can mix almost any other color; however, none of the primaries can be mixed from other colors. Secondary colors include green, orange, and violet. These colors can be mixed using two of the primaries. (Blue and yellow make green, red and yellow make orange, and blue and red make violet.) A tertiary color is a primary mixed with a near secondary, such as red with violet to create red-violet.

on the color wheel, such as blue-green, green, and yellow-green. When used together, they create a sense of harmony.

Using just the corner of your fan brush with value 2, gently tap the leaves on all of the background trees. Adding leaves to the open areas simply implies that there are many trees in this forest. Be sure to leave lots of open space, as the dark areas give your painting depth. Working wet-into-wet., you will create many different values of green. As you tap on the leaves, the green will mix with the color in your tree trunks, creating even more values of green. Do not add lighter green values to your distant trees, as you want to reserve the sunlight to the foreground trees.

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5. Once again, using the corner of your fan brush, begin tapping in the bushes, working from dark to light. Tap some greens onto the rocks to represent moss, grasses, and weeds. Reserve the lightest values for the left side of the foliage in sunlight.

Fully load your fan brush with value 1, and then tap the bristles gently on your palette. Now, holding your fan brush with the handle pointed downward, gently tap the entire side of the bristles onto the canvas to create the grasses, working from top to bottom. Use value 3 for the lighter leaves. Alternate the green values for variety, and use the darkest green value to represen shadows behind the rocks. Use your fan brush to create the waterfall. You will need titanium white and value 11 (light blue), which will represent the water in shadow. With the tip of your fan brush, indicate the water that swirls on top of the flat rock.

At the right edge of the flat rock, tap a bead of color: titanium white in the sun and value 11 in the shadow. Wipe off your fan brush, and with a gentle touch, pull the bead of color down to represent the falling water. Leave lots of the dark gray showing through, as the contrast is important.

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background trees. Adding leaves to the open areas simply implies that there are many trees in this forest. Be sure to leave lots of open space, as the dark areas give your painting depth. Working wet-into-wet., you will create many different values of green. As you tap on the leaves, the green will mix with the color in your tree trunks, creating even more values of green. Do not add lighter green values to your distant trees, as you want to reserve the sunlight to the foreground trees.

Leaves (value 2)

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Lightest leaves (value 3)

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Light blue (value 11)

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ARTIST’S TIP

Use values 1, 2, and 3 for the foliage.

book “Basic Cartooning” [1 of 2]: book layout / © Walter Foster—Quarto Publishing

Tools & Materials

Facial Expressions

inking with these tools. They often leave lines that stay wet for several minutes. Make sure you allow for plenty of drying time!

Templates & Ruler You can find circle, ellipse, and curve templates at any art supply store. These templates are perfect for making dialog balloons. You’ll also find it handy to keep a ruler nearby. For lettering your illustrations you should also have a T-square, set squares, and Ames guide (see page 66).

Facial Features

India Ink India ink is black ink made of carbon. It is a traditional inking material for comic book artists.

Facial features and expressions are essentially just lines and shapes arranged to convey an emotion or thought. I’ve drawn a series of shapes in a box. have arranged these shapes differently to make 4 expressions. It is amazing; there are an endless variety of expressions you can make by just picking a few simple lines!

A. Happy Face In this example, I’ve made a smiling face, with raised eyebrows and an upturned mouth. The face looks eager and pleased.

B. Grumpy Face use the same shapes here, but flip some of them. The mouth and eyebrows are now upside down from how made them in the last face. The nose is pointed down too, which reinforces the frowning look.

C. Insecure Smile still use the same shapes, but here duplicate some shapes and change the size and scale of others. This allowes me to create facial hair and a new expression.

D. Scared Face In this example, continue to alter the size and scale of some shapes, and duplicate some more. The shape used for the nose before have now used for the bottom lip. My old mouth has become a nose, and I’ve duplicated the round shapes of the pupils to become nostrils and the mouth.

Expressions

By drawing different expressions for the same character, you can begin to develop the range and depth of their emotions. It’s good to figure out what distinguishing characteristics of the character need to remain, so that you can recognize it as the same person no matter what crazy face you have them making!

For her frightened expression, stretched out her face. A tiny mouth in proportion to her face makes her look very meek, while some unkempt hair gives her a rattled appearance. Next draw her face showing intrigue. A single lock of hair sweeping over her forehead, heavy eyelids, and a cocked eyebrow all work together to show intrigue and interest. Anger is often shown best in the eyebrows, so in the next drawing draw her eyebrows pointing downward, a puffed curve under the squinted eyes, and her teeth gritting ferociously. Finally, draw her being goofy. created this expression by rolling her wide-open eyes and making her mouth open with her tougue sticking out.

Before putting these concepts into actual cartoon characters, let’s take a look at the individual features that provide much of the expressions and overall look of cartoon faces.

Eyes

Eyes express the most feeling and emotion, so it is good to practice drawing them. Look at all the different sets of eyes I’ve drawn. Can you get some sense of the character based on just the eyes? Sometimes the eyes tell you if the character is young or old, male or female. You can often tell what the character is feeling or trying to do. Notice the shapes and lines that effectively suggest certain expressions. Also notice how big the whites of the eyes are, how large the pupils are, or how prominent the eyelids are. These are all elements that can be modified to create different expressions. In these examples, can you spot some eyes that look like a character just hit their thumb with a hammer? Can you find the secret service agent, or the person who is having a hard time staying awake?

David & Goliath

For this cartoon let’s create a pair of characters that showcased different choices in body design and size. David and Goliath are a perfect example of a disparative duo. The two mismatched opponents that have spawned innumerable references to an underdog pitted against a seemingly unbeatable foe are ideal for cartooning!

1. First draw the basic shapes of each character’s body. Then add lines showing where their arms, legs, and faces will go.

2. Mark Goliath’s outstretched fist and add curved lines that map his helmet, nose, armor, sword, feet, and cape. With David, add lines that show where his legs are, one being held and the other outstretched. Exaggerate his feet, making them about as long as his legs, then draw the shapes for his hands, and mark his hairline and eye.

3. On David, add the bubble-like toes and short parallel lines to create his sandals. In his outstretched hand add the V-shaped slingshot and create lines for his fingers. Draw a wavy line for a scowl and an eyebrow. On Goliath, add lines to his fist-circles and feet to create fingers and sandal straps. Draw horizontal sausages for his eyebrows and a wide smile.

shadows, use less water when mixing the pigment to make a darker shade of the color. Where want lighter shades, add more water to dilute the color. Leave some areas white to create highlights, such as on the armor and skin. Don’t paint in any areas you plan to fill in with black. 24 25

Simplebumpscreate Goliathshoulderarmour. Undulatinglinescreate movementinthecape.

Jaggedwavesfor David’shair.

Tools & Materials

Painting Techniques

art instruction book “The Art of Painting Sea Life in Watercolor” [page 2 of 3]:

Jellyfish

bottle and sprinkle table salt over the water area. To add texture and bubble-like shapes, drop rubbing alcohol on the wet surface with an eyedropper. then let the wash dry thoroughly.

Step 3 mask out the seahorse to protect it from the wet wash of the sea grass and the second wash of the underwater background. apply the masking fluid to the seahorse thickly and carefully, as would paint it. While the masking fluid dries, prepare a pool of ultramarine blue, phthalo blue, phthalo green, new gamboge, quinacridone gold, magenta, and indigo. wet each piece of sea grass with clean water and then mingle two or three colors. drop one color after another and allow them to blend together. repeat the process for the other pieces of sea grass, changing colors as work. To add an interesting texture, lift out some wet colors with facial tissue. let the washes dry.

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The foundation of the Taylor Museum collection is rooted in traditional Latin American and Native American works, areas in which Alice Bemis Taylor held a particular interest. Santos, depictions of saints in both two and three-dimensional forms, make up a significant percentage of Taylor’s original gift. The Fine Arts Center has maintained this legacy through the ongoing acquisition of these objects over the decades.

This selection represents some of the most recently acquired santos and demonstrates that the art form is very much alive and is reverential to tradition as well as innovative to appeal to a contemporary audience.

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museum coffee table book [page 1 of 2]: page layout / production / © Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

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museum coffee table book [page 2 of 2]: page layout / production / © Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

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historic coffee table book: co-design / production / © California Department of Park & Recreation, Gold Discovery Park Assoc.

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TULIP FESTIVAL

By BRITTA BONETTE

BRITTA BONETTE