The next time your little girl says she would like to be a princess, draw her her very own crown. The possibilities for fun will be endless because the crown can be used as an accessory for dolls, hung as a decoration in her room, or worn during role-plays. This craft project will make your daughter

Lithography is a printing method invented in 1796 in which an image is created using oil or fat and water-based inks, which naturally repel eachother. This creates positives and negatives similar to black and white photography.The image is transferred from stone or metal plates onto paper or other m

Before you even think about finishing a metal locker with paint, take the necessary steps to improve the metal's adhesive qualities to prevent rapid paint peeling. Because lockers are slick and nonporous, their surfaces resist paint adhesion. Professionals use an acidic etching primer to prepare met

Airbrushing is a technique that is becoming increasingly popular for many avenues of artistic expression. Makeup artists use it to touch up makeup, car detailers use it to emboss elaborate designs in their vehicle projects and craftsmen use it to paint anything from lures to baseball helmets. Tribal

Painting builds creative and artistic skills and it also encourages children to express themselves. However, many parents and teachers are reluctant to encourage painting projects, since paint is messy and it can leave stains on clothing, as well as on the walls and furniture. The best way to make n

Peeps are a popular Easter candy made from marshmallow coated with colored sugar. Peeps are comprised of a few simple shapes and details. The rounded marshmallow body and small beak found on Peep candy look surprisingly similar to living yellow chicks. The Just Born candy company introduced the orig

It's not advised to use latex, acrylic and oil paints together, yet for the sake of design you can use the different types of paint to come up with some really great painting techniques and designs. These steps show how artists use latex, oils and acrylics as a mishmash of paints to create silhouett

The repair of a damaged oil painting is a very time-consuming process that often involves using a combination of techniques. It is a job best left to professionals if there is any interest at all in retaining the painting's value. Art conservationists are highly trained and skillful professionals wh

Silk painting is popular in Vietnam and reached its peak from 1925 to 1945. Various techniques have been developed, but the artists favored paint on silk because it creates a mysterious, yet soft, effect that other mediums cannot quite capture.

Old kitchen cabinets need not be replaced when they begin to appear worn or damaged. Instead, take time to patch and paint your existing cabinets and you can save significant money while restoring your dated cabinets to their true potential. The process requires that you first repair any nicks, dent

Manga comics have find their foundations in the traditional Japanese performing arts as well as in modern Western comics. These influences give the manga panels their distinctive look. A panel in a comic strip is the box in which the characters are drawn. The box includes not only graphic informatio

Drawing anything in “2-D” simply means the image appears flat and you can’t move or rotate it to see any other angle than the one presented. You can draw a 2-D Ford Mustang in any number of mediums including pencil, pen or even digitally in an image editing program. However, it may

Tangential tension is the measure of the pulling force exerted by a string, cable, chain, or similar object which is suspending a rounded object, as well as the force the object is exerting onto the string or cable. The tension, or force (F), is measured in newtons (N), which are equal to an object'

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Aoi Miyazaki and Mika Nakashima in Nana, the movie from VIZ Pictures. Nana is a live-action Japanese romantic rock and roll movie based on the shojo manga series by Ai Yazawa, starring Mika Nakashima and Aoi Miyazaki.