How to Stain Your Log Home

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You can enhance the natural appearance of your log home and protect it from the elements by finishing it with an oil-based stain. Before you begin, you must pay special attention to preparation, or you could have problems with absorption. Know the proper ways to prepare the log home and protect surr

Ideas for Painting a Living Room With Wainscoting

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OverviewDavid Sacks/Lifesize/Getty ImagesWainscoting is interior paneling that begins at the baseboard and continues about three to five feet up the wall. While many homeowners like to accentuate this surface, others prefer to make it blend in with the rest of the living room. Each option...

How to Engrave with Paint

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Engraving on a craft you've made can add a personal touch and make for a keepsake you or your loved ones can keep for years to come. You can engrave on soft materials like clay or aluminum using a needle or other carving tool, and then make the engraving pop and stand out using some paint and a rag.

How to Rebuild a Graco Paint Spray Gun

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The Graco line of professional spray guns, used with the company's commercial airless sprayers, are a commercial painter's best friend. These high-quality metal spray guns are easy to operate, simple to adjust and even easier to clean. A few steps will keep a great spray gun operating for years with

Best Anime from Novels

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Which novels written for a Japanese audience have been a source of inspiration for anime? Here's a few of our favorites.

How to Draw People Fast

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Drawing people fast is often referred to as a "quick study." Artists use this technique to warm up before major projects or to get the feel of the human figure. This is often done with nude models who change positions every minute or so. The ultimate goal is to get the eye moving and quickly grasp t

Watercolor Painting: Using Water

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Curious George Crafts

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Curious George has been around for decades and still brings a smile to children's faces. When it's raining outside and your kids can't go out to play, doing a Curious George craft can really help them feel better about being stuck inside. Most crafts can be done without even braving a storm to head

Tips On The Cartoons To Draw To Enable You To Earn You A Sensational Extra Income

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Cartooning is such a great hobby but who really knows about the cartoons to draw that can earn you some cash! Learning about cartooning would have to be one of the best parts - except for when we actually make the cash from the cartoons we sell.

Painting Techniques: Interference With Acrylic Paints

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Interference acrylic paints are translucent and use suspended mica flakes. Sometimes the flakes, which can be either coarse or fine, are coated with titanium. Because the mica flakes refract light, the color of the paint appears to change, depending upon the viewer's point of view. It will also appe

How to Unclog a Sheaffer Fountain Pen

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Sheaffer fountain pens are elegant tools for graceful handwriting. But when the ink flow starts to balk, you may be tempted to throw your Sheaffer against the wall. Don't do that. You could damage the nib, not to mention the wall. Your pen may have become clogged with dry ink by lack of use, or it m

How to Paint a Picture While Doing Math

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The process of teaching math is eased by a number of games and activities that can help students solve different problems. One of these activities can literally involve painting by numbers, telling students what to paint in different sections of a piece of paper based upon problems that they solve.

The Masterpiece of Picasso-Guernica

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One day in April 1937, Picasso who stayed in Paris in order to avoid the wars heard the news that, the small beautiful commercial town of Spain-Guernica was blasted into ruins by the bombers of ...

San Diego Comic-Con 2008 - Pokemon

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A giant, inflated Pikachu hovers above the Pokemon booth at San Diego Comic-Con 2008.

How to Refinish an Exterior Door

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Exterior doors can take a lot of abuse from sunlight and rain. Pets and children can compound that abuse and leave a door looking worn and tattered. Luckily, you don't have to replace the door as it is a straightforward process to refinish an exterior door, and it can be done in one day without taki

How to Draw a Buffalo Head

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One of America's most loved and endangered species is the American buffalo. Buffalos provided food, shelter, clothing, and tools for the early settlers of North America and had an estimated population of 60 million. Today their numbers are much smaller and have protect lands in which to roam. Learni

How to Add Long Hair to Pictures

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Adding long hair to pictures is simple if you have a powerful image processing program, such as Paint Shop Pro. The trick is to use the clone tool, which allows you to use a part of an image as if it were a paint color. In any picture, hair is just a mass of color and texture which can be easily re

Team Rocket Jessie and James

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This article is about the bad guys in the Pokemon animation. The bad guys are Jessie and James from Team Rocket.

How to Draw a Facial Expression of Serenity

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Portraits can be one of the most evocative types of art, but only if the subject's expression is conveyed correctly. Subtle differences in the eyes, mouth and eyebrows can hugely influence how a facial expression is perceived. A serene expression is in many ways the "default" face, since a person

How to Remove Brick Mortar From Painted Steel

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Mortar must have exceptional adhesive power to hold together brick structures. That’s a good thing for creating stable, long lasting masonry projects, but it also creates a problem when brick mortar drips, splatters or is smeared onto an adjacent, unprotected surface. As it dries, it gets hard