Artist Elizabeth Sullivan has been painting since childhood, but didn't find her chosen medium until 10 years ago. The event that sparked the start of her experimentation with watercolors was a move into a small apartment with no room for sculpture, oil painting or fabric dying.

Decorating should be fun and should reflect your personality and style. If you are planning a new decorating project, what you plan for you walls will be important. Original paintings will be a great addition to your home.

Portrait painting has been a staple of the medium since pencil found paper. It has long been a tradition of artists to capture there own likeness and place it on a canvas. This long and esteemed tradition came out of the business of doing portraits for commissions which has given way to other mediums.

This, you will find, is not always easy to do as you will soon realise. They tend to smudge with the best will in the world as they pick up specks of dirt and are quite delicate in themselves

Candle making is pretty easy to do on the whole. I am only surprised that more folks don't experiment with this bearing in mind that candles are such a accepted item. Not simply do they generate a feeling of warmth and release perhaps healing powers as we find them restful, but they also give us soft and informal atmospheres to slow down by.

A common question among people with older homes or those wanting to change the colors of rooms is, how to paint ceramic tile? The answer is easily and inexpensively as long as you have some time to complete the job. The end result would be a refreshed, new look to a room.

If you are new to pastels you may not know how to save your paintings and keep them in the best possible way. This is fixing.

At some time in our lives we all fancy having a go at painting or drawing. Some people find it so easy and are naturally talented. You may find they can draw and paint without ever having had a lesson. However, for others they are too frightened to even try!

Which do you choose, as there are two varieties? Well artists paints are good as the pigments are well saturated with colour. Students paints do not have the same quality of pigment.