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Maia's Paintings

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Original landscape paintings, floral paintings, still life in oil, acrylic and pastel mediums of artist Maria Tamas, painting lessons, painting tips for acrylic medium,tutorials,step by step painting demonstrations and video tutorials, reference photos for painting.

Added on: Sep 8th, 2008
Country: Romania
Language: English

Author: maia
Listed in: Mixed Media Visual Arts
Tags: still life acrylic paintings oil paintings landscapes floral paintings painting tutorials

Recent Posts

Merry Christmas!

Posted on Thursday December 24th, 2009 at 20:04 in holidays, traditions

I wish your all a joyful Christmas eve!"Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, bu...
Icons-painting Sacred art

Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 18:31 in icon painting

For almost 2000 years the Christian icons have always been the objects of prayer and contemplation for believers.Interest is growing for this Sacred art form, not only for its aesthetic and artistic qualities, but for its profound spirituality.The pi...
Human face drawing-face proportions

Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 05:16 in tutorials, pencil drawings

Teaching is the best way to learn, they say and this is the truth. So let's learn to draw together.Some proportions of the head are generally common to all faces and need to be right in a portrait.The human face has an egg form, so we draw an egg.Bef...
Index of blog posts

Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 04:48 in tabel of content

TutorialsColor theoryHow do we see color?The Color WheelHue, Value, Tint, Shade, ChromaRBG-CMYK-RYB Color ModelTips for acrylicsHow to keep acrylics softWet palette for acrylics-cheep solutionsAcrylic Painting DemonstrationVideo tutorialsHow to paint...
Man portrait - pencil sketch

Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 06:54 in sketches, video tutorials, pencil drawings

Have a nice day - pencil portrait drawingWhen sketching or drawing a portrait from life you have to find the most prominent characteristic features of the face you are drawing. Everyone has a unique face.As for the rules, I have just one - the most i...
Winter\'s Sparkles - pastel painting

Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 13:07 in paintings, pastel paintings, winter scene

This is a 42cm x 33 cm pastel study on black paper made for a future acrylic painting.Constantly reading and tying to improve my painting skills, I found a very useful tutorial of the great painter, Lorraine Vatcher at Creative Spotlite.The artist de...