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99How to Make Natural Paint
Up until the discovery of petrolatum and the introduction of toxic chemicals, paints were created using natural ingredients such as: linseed oil, lime, casein from milk, turpentine, citrus oils, chalk and hemp oil. Natural pigments were also used...
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96How To Use Clear Nail Polish or Spray Paint to Keep Costume Jewelry from Tarnishing and Leaving Green or Black Marks
How to keep inexpensive jewelry from leaving green or black tarnish marks on your skin
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94Easy & Inexpensive DIY Kitchen Countertops
In a previous hub of mine, I wrote about my faux tile backsplash walls. During the same kitchen remodeling, I also redid my kitchen countertops. I had very little money to spend, so granite, river rock, or stainless steel was not an option at the...
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94How to Venetian Plaster
Venetian Plaster is a faux finish technique that gives walls a vintage plaster appearance that really shimmers with light. Learn how to do this simple technique.
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96How To Create A 'Swirled' Abstract Painting With Acrylic Paint
This is my technique that I have made up for creating abstract paintings with watered down acrylic paint. I have sold quite a few paintings created with this method.
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95Found Old Vintage Items For Decorating With.
This article is about found items and what you can do with them to decorate your home. RECYCLE. Trash to Treasure.
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93How to Paint Rocks
Why not? Turning rocks into 3-dimensional art is lots of fun and can be very rewarding. Small children love to transform pebbles into bugs and imaginary monsters. More advanced artists are able to produce the most wonderful life-like animals, birds,...
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94Decorative Painted Garden Rocks
Try your hand at decorative garden rocks. You can use your own imagination to create hand painted rocks for your own garden, home, or as gifts. Here are some examples and info on what you will need and how to get started.
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93Renaissance Paints - How they made pigments
If you look at any masterpieces of the great Renaissance painters, they have a quality that seems linked directly to the landscape. This would have something to do with how their pigments were made . Unlike...
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92Rene Magritte, Fine Artist
Rene Magritte is now a highly collectible artist. It is so ironic that during most of his life as an artist, he struggled, working in a wallpaper factory, forging banknotes even! But now, Rene Magritte is eminently collectible.
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