Painting Colorful Art

Painting Colorful Art

Home Designing | kitchen paint coloring ideas

How to Fix It:
First of all, make sure your best no-cost lighting accessory (the sun) is getting through. Effective window treatments that combine fashion and function are key in this solution. Any shade or blind that allows you to control incoming light is going to help you out here: sheer shades with horizontal or vertical vanes that can be adjusted are one solution. Plantation shutters also offer a classic look, with the ability to control the light that comes through.

Also, try not to ever limit any room to a single light source. Add floor and table lamps, even when there is an overhead light fixture. This will not only give you more resources for brightening the room, it will also give you more options for changing the ambience, as you can play with the number of lights you have on at once.

Design Mistake #2: Looking Up to Your Art
For some reason, many people try to balance out a room by placing their wall artwork high above their furniture. However, instead of balancing the room, it makes the pieces appear as though they are "floating", achieving a disorganized effect instead of a "put together" one.

How to Fix It:
Wall decor should relate to the furniture below it. Some designers suggest that there should be between 66"-72" from your floor to the top of any hanging wall artwork or pictures. Of course, there are exceptions with larger pieces, but this is a good rule of thumb that will help you keep your wall decor from floating away.

While we're not suggesting clashing colors and furniture is in, too much matching can actually be a design nightmare. When everything matches exactly, a viewer's eye is not drawn to any one thing in particular, which can make the room appear dull. In addition, with nothing standing out to break up the monotony, a completely matching room can actually appear more cluttered.

How to Fix It:
Coordinate, don't duplicate. When choosing accessories, furnitures, and colors, pick items that will blend well together but do not repeat themselves. For example, in a room with different sets of windows: if the windows differ in size, it's okay to get a vertical blind for the larger windows and a horizontal blind for the smaller windows. You can coordinate the colors of the blinds, without getting the exact same blind for each set of windows.

No plans to replace that matching furniture suite? No problem! You can neutralize extreme matching by changing colors. Choosing a different wall color can tone down the patterns.

Design Mistake #4: Choosing Quantity over Quality
This is one of the most common design mistakes, and often results in over furnishing, over accessorizing, and way too many knick-knacks. It works against a unified look for a room, as every space becomes crowded with tiny accessories and picture frames. In moderation, these accessories accent a room – but their overuse can make a room feel crowded, cramped, and disjointed.

How to Fix It:
But what you love, and only buy it because you love it, not because it's on sale. (Admit it, we've all done it) And if you can't afford that gorgeous large wall hanging yet, don't purchase small candle holders and picture frames instead. Wait and save up! Your room decor will thank you for it.

Let's say you have a collection of knick-knacks and small items you adore; they really capture your personal style. You can still have quantity AND quality. Organize your favorite home design accessories by massing groups of smaller things together, for a more unified look. And don't forget – not every accessory you own has to be displayed at once. Display one group at a time, and you'll have plenty of ways to refresh your decor each season!

Design Mistake #5: I Just Want to Get it Done!
Home decorating takes time, exploration and research, but too often people make decisions too quickly, without testing the possibilities or researching various options. This can lead to paint colors that don't look right (they can often look different in the natural lighting of your home), or even worse, an ignoring of your own personal style in an effort to get it done.

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I need to paint 3 water color paintings this weekend..?

..and i don't know what to paint! i have to do it off an image, so if anybody could find a nice image that would be cool for me to paint then send me the link for it :]

-Easy image to paint off of(i'm bad at water color painting, 8th grade art class)
-Nice and colorful
-Big and bright

so find me a great picture. thanks [:

I would suggest you go to Yahoo Search and click on images, using the keyword 'watercolors' or watercolor art.' Or try Flickr and do the same. many artists post their works on Flickr. There are probably hundreds of watercolor works there that might inspire you or give you ideas.