Arts & crafts

Arts & crafts

Arts & crafts comprises a multitude of activities and hobbies that involve making things with one's hands, usually from scratch. They can be sub-divided into 'handicrafts'( or traditional crafts ) that are fashioned in an old style using long practised techniques, and the rest which are more modern inventions that have become recent trends or fads.

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showstoppers

Arts & crafts; Fine art

Limited editions that reflect both the dimensions of a large painting as well as the magnitude of the artist's original vision. Printed directly on oversized canvas, ShowStoppers ...

serlith

Arts & crafts; Fine art

As the name suggest, the combination of serigraphy and lithography.

seriset

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A seriset is similar to a serigraph. A serigraph is normally called a hand pulled serigraph in that each silk screen is hand pulled. A seriset is the same process but the screens ...

oil paint

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A type of paint made from color particles (pigment) and linseed oil. Oil paint dries slowly, can be used thick or thin, and with glazes. Because it dries slowly, oil paint is ...

museum

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A building, place or institution devoted to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical or artistic ...

wet-on-wet

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A painting technique that is well-known as being the primary method of painting used by Bob Ross. Since lighter colors will usually mix with darker colors if laid over top of them ...