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Sharper Impressions Painting Talks Paint

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

There is no right or wrong paint color only some pointer and guidelines that can help make the process easier. Here are some tips by Sharper Impressions Painting that may help you pick the best color for you and your family.

Pick your favorite object in the room like a chair, rug or even a painting. The colors in this piece will set the scheme for the rest of the room. Pick colors that match that favorite piece and coordinate those. Pick accents to bring the color scheme together for most people, the “best part” of choosing colors is completing the look with accents and furniture.

Sharper Impressions Painting suggests before selecting a new paint color consider the lighting in the room. Look at paint chips under direct, indirect, and artificial light. Evaluate the samples against furniture and rugs. After you narrow your choices, get a small jar of each finalist and brush each on a piece of white poster board. After the paint dries, tape the poster board to the wall and evaluate again. Assessing larger color samples ensures that you’re making the right choice for your room.

It is important that you understand color, because it will help you orchestrate the color schemes that you hope to achieve when choosing the right interior paint color. Sharper Impressions Painting has years of experience in paint and paint colors.

Primary Colors are red, yellow and blue. All other colors are a combination of these three colors.

Secondary Colors you get when you mix equal parts of the primary colors, such as green, orange and purple.

Tertiary Colors are achieved by combining a primary color with its secondary color that is next to it on the color wheel, such as; blue and green, yellow and green, red and orange and yellow and orange. The same goes for blues and reds.

Sharper Impressions Painting says the color of Wet paint often looks different from dry paint. Don’t worry when you first see the paint applied to the wall. Let the paint dry, and then check it with your other samples (fabric, tiles, carpet) to decide if it looks right. Paint can also look out of place in an empty room. Bring in a few room elements like a chair or pillow to see how it all works together.

Andy Warhol

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Andy Warhol (real name Andrzej Warhola),was born on 6th of August, 1928 in Forest City (Pennsylvania) in a family of Czechoslovak emigrants.

In 1949, Warhol graduated from Pittsburgh Carnegie Institute of Technology with a diploma of the artist-designer. After he moved to New York city, Andy Warhol changed his name to and worked in designer stores: ‘Tiffany & Co’, ‘Bonvit Teller’ as well as in magazines ‘Vogue’ and ‘Glamour’. Working in advertising has brought success and Warhol bought a house in Manhattan.

After the exhibition of drawings for Campbell’s canned soup company, held in Los Angeles in 1962, Andy Warhol’s work became famous. By 1963, Warhol began to use silkscreen method, and the most of his works performed in this manner.

Warhol’s most important works include: ‘Marilyn Monroe’, ‘Elvis Presley’, ‘John Wayne’, ‘Campbell’s soup cans’. Although it’s really hard to find Andy Warhol prints in high resolution, it is still possible.

Highlighting the aspect of mass production, Warhol called his studio “The Factory” In the same period, Warhol began to direct movies.

In 1980 Warhol began to take more orders and commercial orders for advertising. At that period he made a lot of paintings that are available now as Andy Warhol posters.

Andy Warhol died Feb. 22, 1987 in his sleep of a heart attack in Cornwall Medical Center in Manhattan the next day after gallbladder removal surgery