http://www.creativesuite.com Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:46:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One common technique that has been used in oil painting has been layering. It is a technique that is characterized by  building up an artwork by placing repeated layers of oil paint into canvas. It is usually some glazes applied over thin layers of opaque oil paint. Oil paint dries ... http://www.creativesuite.com/painting-techniques/painting-in-layers/ Paul Cezanne was a noted French painter considered as one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists. He was known to have led the way for the transition of Impressionism in the 19th Century  to the styles the has been developing in the early 20th Century. He was one of the ... http://www.creativesuite.com/artists/paul-cezanne-biography/ Impasto is one of the painting techniques that has been used even by the great painting masters. The term comes form the Italian word which means "dough" or "mixture". As a painting technique, impasto refers to a method of painting where paint is laid on a canvas very ... http://www.creativesuite.com/painting-techniques/painting-techniques-impasto/ Willem de Kooning is one of the noted modern artists whose work became prominent in the post World War II era. He was, first and foremost, known as an abstract expressionist painter, a style of which is usually characterized by an impression of spontaneity and that of an ... http://www.creativesuite.com/artists/willem-de-kooning/ The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is a Russian Orthodox church located in St. Petersburg in Russia. It is one of the main churches located in the city as well as one with the most striking features. The church may have quite a unique name. The name actually ... http://www.creativesuite.com/architecture-design/the-church-of-the-savior-on-blood/ Francisco Goya is a notable Spanish painter and printmaker. Goya has been regarded as the last in the line of the Old Masters and the first among the modern painters. In fact, Goya is considered by other artists as the Father of Modern Art, whose works became models for the ... http://www.creativesuite.com/artists/francisco-goya/ Johanns Vermeer was a noted Dutch painter who specialized in the Dutch Baroque style. He was famous for his art works of domestic interior scenes depicting ordinary life. A painter with a relatively few artworks credited to him, he was for some time forgotten for nearly 200 year. It was ... http://www.creativesuite.com/artists/johannes-vermeer/ Green building is a fairly new practice in architecture and design that has become increasingly popular today. Green building is all about design and construction with the concern for the environment in mind. It is the practice of increasing the efficiency on how buildings use resources. In terms of design, ... http://www.creativesuite.com/architecture-design/green-building/ There are quite a number of beautiful buildings and structures found all over the world. They have their own way of making people notice of their arresting presence and highlighting their surroundings to another level. And to see that these are man-made structures borne out of man's creative imagination is ... http://www.creativesuite.com/architecture-design/st-basils-cathedral/ By 1880, Van Gogh started taking an earnest interest in art upon the suggestion of his brother Theo. This led him to attend the Royal Academy of Art where he learned the basics of anatomy as well as the standard rules of modeling and perspective. By 1881, Van Gogh ... http://www.creativesuite.com/artists/van-gogh-biography-as-artist/