Paint Rock

It wasn’t easy and there for sure were many challenges, but that did not stop him. He is famous for his large scale photorealistic portrait paintings. When a blood clot in his spine left him paralyzed from the neck down,he thought he would never paint again. Chuck close was born on July 5th 1940 in Monroe, Washington. His family is made up of his Mother Mildred wagner Close, Father Leslie Durward Close and his brother…

It was a warm Saturday night when Farkle and a group of friends decided to go camping. He knew the best spot to go, Oak Openings Park. This is where families from Youstown go to get away and it was close to home. They hopped in the van Farkle had rented and set on their way to the park. They arrived around 5 a.m to get there early and have enough time to do everything on their list. “I want to go fishing first,” said Milkyway eagerly, twiddling his fingers. “I heard that the biggest bass in…

Mildred Wagner Close. Chuck Close only has one brother, and his name is Martin Close. Chuck’s hobbies are literally just painting. He says that he doesn’t really paint the face, he just uses symbols that help him see and draw the face he was studying. Chuck’s later years in his art career, was now he can’t pain with one hand, so he paints with two hands. When he was just a little bit younger in his ages, he was diagnosed with face blindness and dyslexia. Which means that if…

upstairs and asked my older sister if she wanted to help me with the painting, and she replied with a very rough tone, “No, I don’t feel like painting right now.” I wasn’t surprised she said no. So, I asked her if I could use some of her make-up and paint instead. She said yes, without looking up from the book that was holding her attention. As I went through all of her colorful make-up, I saw at least eighty different shades of eyeshadow, varying from vibrant purples to chocolate browns. I…

lead based paint, and it led to the banning of lead-based paint in many nations, although not in the US. (Landrigan, Philip). While we don’t know what the reasoning of the epidemic was, we can assume it was in younger children that explore their world with their hands and mouth. As a parent, we watch our children put this toy in their mouth, or pick something off the floor and put it in their mouth. We try and correct it but sometimes we don’t notice little Jane just picked up a paint chip off…

While the piece itself is mostly oil paint, the artist Waldemar Kolbusz, uses wax layered on top of the oil. This combination of textures provides a unique finish that appears visually appearing due to its rough feeling and uneven consistency. In addition to the textural differences, the wax gives off different finishes, as wax dries matte while the oil paint still remains shiny. Beneath the wax follows a layering of oil paints that cover a contrasting variance of pigments. The background…

based paint. Brooke applied the paint thinly onto the composition. The oil paint then dried through a process called oxidization, which caused the paint to dry slowly and created a glossy effect onto the painting. “A Pastoral Visit.” is an oil on canvas painting.3 Therefore, the painting’s support, or surface in which the paint is painted on, is the 119.38cm x 167.16cm4 white canvas. The canvas was white because a layer of primer was applied to help protect the canvas from future layers of…

give the impression of volume in the walls and the floor (Glossary Terms n.d.). A foreshortening technique was used to paint some of Socrates’ disciples which can be seen turning their bodies in space. Diminishing scale and organic shapes are two other techniques used, the first is depicted by smaller people shown climbing the stairs on the background while the second is used to paint the bodies of the people in the painting. From all these techniques only two are present in “Return of Neptune”…

Lead. Why should we care? Lead, it surrounds and penetrates, it binds in water pipes and the walls of homes. With lead having been outlawed for several years now it still seems to be a real big problem in America. despite being aware of the problem many Americans and lawmakers seemed to have simply ignore the problem and pretend it wasn’t there. It wasn’t until early 2016 that the public took interest when the water in Flint, Michigan was laced with lead and soon there were reports…

analyze the Lead-Based Paint Abatement Repair and Maintenance Study (1992) conducted by the Kennedy Krieger Institute, in order to provide an ethical analysis of the study. In doing so, I argue that the ethics of the study shifts depending upon which set of non-moral facts an individual chooses to focus on. My stance, however, is that the study was unethical. Before presenting my argument, I place the study within its historical context. Fourteen years before the Lead-Based Paint Abatement…