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Hello art & design lover's, Jimmy Freeman here. "We hope you will be patient with us", as today, Sunday 18th June , 2011 is in fact the Birthday of iPadarts.org. We have been working very hard and not all our pages are online yet.We need as many members asap as the 'organ doner' games in Belfast is in 6 weeks...This is a good taste of the various styles for-comming.We have great future plans & will share this with you all. Updates every day/week, so please do not forget.... "this is all about helping www.organdonation.nhs.uk & pushing young emerging artists forward. { jimmy freeman 'programmer / director }

Ipad Wallart ? What can I do with them ? ( all images iPhone3GS, iPhone4G & iPadiPad2 mobile device's *** "exact resolution" )

Hold finger on any image / choose 'save image' / image is now in your photos. Share it, email it ,MMS, assign to contact, use as wallpaper (wallart) or print.. 'voila' enjoy, Stephen Mc Grogan, Art Director,iPadarts.org

" art is art" & nothing else...

Fine arts, watercolour, life drawing & mixed media by Stephen Mc Grogan...

Watercolor (US) or watercolour (UK and Commonwealth), also aquarelle from French, is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water soluble vehicle. The traditional and most common support forwatercolor paintings is paper; other supports include papyrus, bark papers, plastics, vellum or leather, fabric, wood, and canvas. Watercolors are usually transparent and it allows light to reflect from the surface of the paper. This gives a luminous effect. Watercolor can also be made opaque by adding Chinese white. In East Asia, watercolor painting with inks is referred to as brush painting or scroll painting. In Chinese, Korean, and Japanese painting it has been the dominant medium, often in monochrome black or browns. India, Ethiopia and other countries also have long traditions. Fingerpainting with watercolor paints originated in China.. Artists take a variety of approaches to drawing the human figure.Transparency Watercolor paints are customarily evaluated on a few key attributes. In the partisan debates of the 19th century English art world, gouache was emphatically contrasted to traditional watercolors and denigrated for its high hiding power or lack of "transparency"; "transparent" watercolors were exalted. Paints with low hiding power are valued because they allow an underdrawing or engraving to show in the image, and because colors can be mixed visually by layering paints on the paper (which itself may be either white or tinted). resulting color will change depending on the layering order of the pigments. In fact, there are very few genuinely transparent watercolors, neither are there completely opaque watercolors (with the exception of gouache); and any watercolor paint can be made more transparent simply by diluting it with water. "Transparent" colors do not have titanium dioxide (white) or most of the earth pigments (sienna, umber, etc.) which are very opaque. The 19th century claim that "transparent" watercolors gain "luminosity" because they function like a pane of stained glass laid on paper - the color intensified because the light passes through the pigment, reflects from the paper, and passes a second time through the pigment on its way to the viewer-is false: watercolor paints do not form a cohesive paint layer, as do acrylic or oil paints, but simply scatter pigment particles randomly across the paper surface.[1] Watercolors appear more vivid than acrylics or oils because the pigments are laid down in a more pure form with fewer fillers (such as kaolin) obscuring the pigment colors. Multiple layers of watercolor do achieve a very luminous effect because of less fillers obscuring the pigment particles.

La femme by Stephen Mc Grogan...

Watercolor on Ingre's paper.. ( wet technique )

TA pigment is a material that changes the color of reflected or transmitted light as the result of wavelength-selective absorption. This physical process differs from fluorescence, phosphorescence, and other forms of luminescence, in which a material emits light. Many materials selectively absorb certain wavelengths of light. Materials that humans have chosen and developed for use as pigments usually have special properties that make them ideal for coloring other materials. A pigment must have a high tinting strength relative to the materials it colors. It must be stable in solid form at ambient temperatures.

free sketch, watercolour...

Abstinence

Abstinence is a voluntary restraint from indulging in bodily activities that are widely experienced as giving pleasure. Most frequently, the term refers to sexual abstinence, or abstention from alcohol or food. The practice can arise from religious prohibitions or practical considerations. Abstinence may also refer to drugs. For example you can abstain from smoking. Abstinence has diverse forms. Commonly it refers to a temporary or partial abstinence from food, as in fasting. In the twelve-step program of Overeaters Anonymous abstinence is the term for refraining from compulsive eating, akin in meaning to sobriety for alcoholics. Because the regimen is intended to be a conscious act, freely chosen to enhance life, abstinence is sometimes distinguished from the psychological mechanism of repression. The latter is an unconscious state, having unhealthy consequences. Freud termed the channeling of sexual energies into other more culturally or socially acceptable activities, "sublimation".