What does the word “Ninjutsu” bring to mind? Black clad Ninja Assassins demonstrating miraculous feats of acrobatics and throwing around deadly “ninja stars”? If so, then you might have a hard time believing that Ninjutsu, the ancient art of the Ninja, is perfectly applicable and useful to someone who lives in the modern, fast-paced world […]
Monthly Archives: July 2018
Why Do Black Belt Martial Artists Get Beat Up By Street Fighters?
If you want to learn to defend yourself, you join a karate school, right? After all, anyone who has a high ranking black belt and a slew of shiny trophies proudly displayed in their window should be able to teach you how to survive one of the worst situations that could ever happen to a […]
Painting on Fabric With Acrylic Fabric Paints – A Beginner’s Guide
Painting on fabric is easy and inexpensive, and it opens up exciting new creative horizons for sewers and quilters, fine arts painters, scrapbookers, and mixed-media artists.. If you’ve never tried painting on fabric before, you may have questions about how to get started. Here are the answers to some frequently asked questions about fabric painting. […]
What Constitutes a "Good" Budget?
What makes up a good budget? What expenses should you include in the budget? What can you do about variable expenses in your budget? How can you personalize a budget? Where are you going? The key to a good budget or spending plan is knowing where you have been and where you want to go. […]
Bridge Jewelry – Artisan Jewelry
Jewelry is more than an accessory; it can be a promise, a remembrance, a statement or a frivolous decoration. Fine jewelry, Bridge jewelry and Fashion Jewelry are all types of jewelry that allow you to have a variety of choices to add to your collection and create your look. The terms Bridge jewelry and Artisan […]
What is Contemporary Tattooing?
In modern times, the art of tattooing has become largely youth-driven, dominated by young tattooists with training in fine art and culture. Their clients are similarly young and often adorned with bold loud designs on their arms, hands, legs, and bodies as well as multiple piercing. Contemporary tattooing first came about during the hippy 1970s […]
Morris Graves, Northwest Mystic Painter
After a prodigious creative output spanning six decades and being universally celebrated as one of the most important American painters of 20th century modern art, Morris Graves, who died in 2001, not only remains an enigma but is relatively unknown, especially to younger generations. In part, this is attributable to the fact that Graves himself […]
History and Clothing in Ancient Japan
Japanese history includes alternating periods of isolation and revolutionary influences from the rest of the world. As early as the Jomon period from about 14000BC to 300 BC, Japan had a hunter-gatherer lifestyle; wooden stilt houses, pit dwelling, and agriculture. Weaving was still unknown and the ancient Japanese clothing consisted of fur. However, some of […]
How to Draw a Woman Without Clothes
Drawing a cloth-less woman has been a favourite subject. Pencil drawing is a basic source. Taking the help of this source, an artist would build a pencil portrait. The final painting could be in water colour, oil colour or acrylic; but the pencil art is basic necessity. While drawing with graphite pencil or charcoal, an […]
How to Choose a Right Tattoo Machine
All craftspeople are only as good as the tools they use. It doesn’t matter if they are carpenters or tattoo artists. Tattooing is an art and is mostly dependent on the skills of the artist and the equipment that he is using. The type of equipment will determine the quality of tattoo too. Tattoo machines […]