Beginning Artists ?EUR" Beginner tips and information to make painting fun

Information Overload
As a beginning artist/painter there is so much information out there that can help, but a lot of it can be overwhelming to the beginning artist. I have put together some ideas that have helped me to become a better painter and in turn my work looks more professional. I hope to someday be good enough to have a following and be able to make a living being an artist.
Canvas
Just in the canvas selection alone, a beginner can get overwhelmed with what type of canvas to buy. The easiest way to go is to buy an already gallery wrapped white canvas. This is canvas material already wrapped around a wood frame. It is stapled around the frame and is pulled firmly so there are no loose areas. This type of canvas comes in all sorts of sizes and I have even seen black canvas now being gallery wrapped.
I suggest for beginners to not think small but to start small. A smaller canvas is easier to manage and if you don't like your work, you aren't out the money it costs for a large canvas. Good point, the smaller canvases are reasonable in price especially if you get them on sale. I shop at my local craft store and by using the 40% off coupon the purchase price for gallery wrapped canvas is not bad. Gallery wrapped canvas also eliminates the need for a frame which will save you money as we all know frames aren't cheap.
As you get better or just need to feel what it is like to paint on a large canvas, use the coupon idea to buy yourself a large gallery wrapped canvas for a reasonable price. Remember though that more canvas means more paint and longer painting time so make sure you are prepared for a possibly long painting artistic session, both mentally and physically. I've started on large projects and early into them realized I wasn't ready to spend the time on it, and unfortunately had to waste paint and ultimately dollars.
If you have a large canvas that you've painted but aren't happy with the work that sits on it. Don't throw that canvas out. I have and will continue I'm sure to re-use canvases. Simply take a neutral color of old house paint and cover your canvas with it. This will give you a whole new clean canvas to start from. I have also taken house paint as it is cheaper than using artist paint, and strategically only covered certain spots of the used canvas. This allows for some of the art below to breakthrough and this makes for a very unique effect. Experiment is the name of the game.
We also have the option to paint on paper sheet canvas. This is free form canvas paper in sheets that are not bound to a frame. I am looking forward to using this type of canvas as it will make framing easy, however, I am shying away from it at this point of my painting career because I like the freedom and mobility the gallery wrapped canvas gives me. With the paper canvas you will need an easel to keep it in place. I have the easel, but I personally really enjoy the freedom to move my canvas. This allows me to paint in different stoke directions, it also gives me the ability to see the painting in different lighting easily. An easel would make those activities kind of hard.
So do we go with white canvas or black canvas? I've been noticing several artists are beginning to use black canvas instead of the traditional white. I have had my eye on the black canvas and will be utilizing it soon. However, I've noticed at least at my local craft store that they only carry very small gallery wrapped canvas sizes. You will not find anything larger than a 12x12 canvas, at least not at our local big box craft store. But who knows, trends change and you may see these types of canvases everywhere sooner than you think.
I love being an artist. I have learned useful information and helpful tips along the way and I would like to share them with you as I continue to learn along my artist journey.
Happy Artistry!

Information on how Artwork Repair Is Undertaken

Art repair is challenging work. Even though cleaning up of the painting is typically necessary for the purposes of conservation treatment, it's typically performed for some other reasons and different decisions can be just as legitimate so far as the way the artwork is restored so long as it can be carried out correctly.

Of course, the end results may well look very different. Like a well known painting restoration expert once said: "every single cleaning is an action of critical interpretation". Nonetheless, in many cases it is possible and desirable to undergo all the stages of clean-up and reveal unobscured original paint. The actual cleaned artwork can be in essentially perfect condition, or it can look particularly disconcerting with its old damages still showing. Paint can be original but not have its original appearance. Pigmentation may have changed colour or perhaps faded or perhaps the transparency of the paint may possibly reveal under layers not initially apparent to the human eye.

The particular art work restoration professional then is faced with an additional decision that he needs to make. Just how much repair should be carried out? That is, what's the right amount of the old damage that ought to be concealed by fresh paint repair and retouching? Clean-up decisions certainly determine exactly how a painting might appear, yet so too will the technique of refurbishment.

Refurbishment has to balance two conflicting requirements, that relating to legibility and authenticity. On the one hand, the observer desires to see a composition undamaged by deterioration and loss. But on the other, it is crucial to know which areas of the original is actually painted and which aren't. These needs are frequently satisfied by the restoration professional insisting on a complete image record of the art work to be cleaned, along with full painting restoration.

If a total photographic impression of the original is not found or perhaps can't be obtained, then it's up to the specific art work restoration professional to take some creative liberties based on the bordering regions of the painting as a guide. This is actually the imaginative part of artwork restoration and one that cannot be analyzed with quantitative analysis. A qualified expert is the difference between the piece of art appearing like the original and it looking like a piece of art that's clearly been retouched and repaired.

It normally will take years of training and continual improving of techniques to make a piece of art which looks like the original. When a piece of art is a few hundred years old, this can be much more of a challenge as the artwork restoration specialist needs to produce their own paint to make it just like the feel and color of the original. This is where the artistic part of the process is needed. As I said, a lot of painting recovery is more art than science.

Painting repair pros use these meticulous techniques to clean and recover priceless pieces of art in addition to humdrum art which are seen at your local library. The caliber of their workmanship may almost certainly be assessed by the trained eye, however in most cases it is the amateur that may recognize the results of refurbishment that are much more obvious. Nonetheless, art refurbishment is an important and critical job done by skilled industry experts to produce historical works of art saved for generations to come to savor and admire for many years to come.