Oil Painting From Your Heart

Family Friends Or Pets Are Great Subjects To Paint

You Know their expressions are better then most anything else in the world

flowers and things you see all the time are ok
but try suseing your Imagination with something you dont see much of paintings have become stale and sometimes boring, I dont know why everyone wants to paint the samethings over and over I cant it drives me crazy

I am sure I will have to at some point but I try to change the subject everytime I paint,That way each will look different from the last

This Is Not Just For Fun Its A Way Of Life

With Todays Youth Not Haveing Direction They Need Something To Do To Keep Them Off The Streets As Well As something They Will Enjoy

Art Is A Great Way To Watch Your Child Learn Something That Will Help Them Learn How To Express
Their Feeling In A Safe Manner

This Can Turn Into A Money Making Bussiness For Not Only You But Your Children

There are many who would say Yes If You want to be any good

That Is Their Opinion

I Say Its up To You

Some Of The Most Famous Artist Did Not Attend Classes They learned To Paint On Their Own

It may Have Taken many a year to reach their fullest ability's But Still No one Is Going To Come out of a class room at their fullest ability

This is a choice you must make for yourself

I have never gone to school of any kind I have worked in labor type fields all of my life
I never held an artist paint brush till the year 2006 and still have not had a class in art
If You Look at some of my paintings on here you tell me how I did for someone with out having taken a class I still intend on doing so but depending on what you want to acomplish with your paintings you may not have a need to attend any classes

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Vincent van Gogh

Self-portrait (1887)
Birth name Vincent Willem van Gogh
Born 30 March 1853(1853-03-30)
Zundert, The Netherlands
Died 29 July 1890 (aged 37)
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Nationality Dutch
Field Painter
Movement Post-Impressionism
Works The Potato Eaters, Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Irises, Portrait of Dr. Gachet
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist.[1] His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces.

Van Gogh spent his early adult life working for a firm of art dealers. After a brief spell as a teacher, he became a missionary worker in a very poor mining region. He did not embark upon a career as an artist until 1880. Initially, Van Gogh worked only with sombre colours, until he encountered Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism in Paris. He incorporated their brighter colours and style of painting into a uniquely recognizable style, which was fully developed during the time he spent at Arles, France. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life. Most of his best-known works were produced in the final two years of his life, during which time he cut off part of his left ear following a breakdown in his friendship with Paul Gauguin. After this he suffered recurrent bouts of mental illness, which led to his suicide.

The central figure in Van Gogh's life was his brother Theo, who continually and selflessly provided financial support. Their lifelong friendship is documented in numerous letters they exchanged from August 1872 onwards. Van Gogh is a pioneer of what came to be known as Expressionism. He had an enormous influence on 20th century art, especially on the Fauves and German Expressionists.

The Dutch pronunciation of Vincent van Gogh's name is [%u02C8v%u026Ans%u025Bnt v%u0251n %u02C8%u0263%u0254x] (help·info). It is also often pronounced as [%u02C8v%u026Ans%u0259nt væn %u02C8%u0261%u0252f] or [%u02C8v%u026Ans%u0259nt v%u0251n %u02C8%u0261%u0254x] in British English and [%u02C8v%u026Ans%u0259nt væn %u02C8%u0261o%u028A] in US English.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Self-portrait in red chalk, circa 1512 to 1515.[nb 1]
Birth name Leonardo di Ser Piero
Born April 15, 1452(1452-04-15)
Vinci, Florence, in present-day Italy
Died May 2, 1519 (aged 67)
Amboise, Indre-et-Loire, in present-day France
Nationality Italian
Field Many and diverse fields of arts and sciences
Movement High Renaissance
Works Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Vitruvian Man
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (pronunciation (help·info)), April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, having been a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Born as the illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, spending his final years in France at the home given to him by King François I.

Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man", a man whose seemingly infinite curiosity was equalled only by his powers of invention.[1] He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.[2]

It is primarily as a painter that Leonardo was and is renowned. Two of his works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, occupy unique positions as the most famous, most reproduced and most parodied portrait and religious painting of all time, their fame approached only by Michelangelo's Creation of Adam.[1] Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also iconic. Perhaps fifteen of his paintings survive, the small number due to his constant, and frequently disastrous, experimentation with new techniques, and his chronic procrastination.[nb 2] Nevertheless, these few works, together with his notebooks, which contain drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting, comprise a contribution to later generations of artists only rivalled by that of his contemporary, Michelangelo.

As an engineer, Leonardo's ideas were vastly ahead of his time. He conceptualised a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, the double hull and outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were even feasible during his lifetime,[nb 3] but some of his smaller inventions, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded.[nb 4] As a scientist, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.

Michelangelo's David, sculpted from 1501 to 1504, is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture and one of Michelangelo's two greatest works of sculpture, along with the Pietà. It is the statue of the young Israelite king David alone that almost certainly is one of the most recognizable stone sculptures in the history of art. It is regarded as a symbol both of strength and youthful human beauty. The 5.17 meter (17 ft)[1] marble statue portrays the Biblical King David in the nude, at the moment that he decides to battle with Goliath. It came to symbolize the defense of civic liberties embodied in the Florentine Republic, an independent city state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici themselves. This interpretation was also encouraged by the original setting of the sculpture outside the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence. The completed sculpture was unveiled on 8 September 1504.

Leonardo da Vinci:

The Most Famous Artist Of All Time produced the most valuable and recognized painting in the world

He was not allowed to attend the university

The most famous paintings in the world, including The Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci was more than just an artist,He was in Science, Anatomy and Architecture. His Sketchbooks,Were filled with his ideas for inventions,They were found centuries after his death

Leonardo was born in Vinci on April 15, 1452.

He learned to make brushes and mix colors as well as to draw, paint and sculpt back in the days
when an artist was commissioned to make a piece of art, The apprentices would help do the work. when Leonardo was given the assignment of painting an angel in one of the master's pictures, his work was so much better than the rest of the painting that Verrocchoio put down the paintbrush and never picked it up again.

Leonardo was labeled as an artist that never finished what he started.he loved the challenge of painting, his interest in the project would change to boredom after a short time

Leonardo's Sketchbooks had sketches of most all of his intrest

Leonardo moved to milan
There He worked with his Art In clay marble bronze
As Well As His oil painting

Leonardo accepted a commission to paint an altarpiece for the church of San Francesco Grande in Milan.

This work impressed Ludovico enough that he hired Leonardo to work for him.

He gave a project to Leonardo who worked off and on on it for sixteen years At the last minute Ludovico decided he needed the bronze for cannons
more them for a statue and the project was never compleated

The Last Supper
when he was in Milan that's when Leonardo painted his most famous peace of work The Last Supper

This painting, depicting the last Passover dinner for Jesus and his disciples was to be done on a wall of the monk's dining hall at Santa Maria della Grazie