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My name is Joe babika , As a Mentor interior house painter and self proclaimed master artist of my painting craft, there are some life lessons I want to share with you. There are many skills young fathers should teach their sons as they mature. What comes to mind as a matter of fact is how to resolve with the family car; changing a tire, oil and windshield wipers.
Traditionally I speak of the relationship between father and son, but this article also applies to fathers and daughters. Being able to be a “handy-man” around the house is a valuable skill for young adults to acquire so that when they are really mature adults with their own homes and apartments , so that they are not at a loss when it comes to fixing and refurbishing projects. I highly recommend teaching your children about painting. Yes, even painting has longevity in the lifetime of a person. How many times have you had to choose a paint; and what type, what color, what brushes or perhaps not even brushes simply the choice of wallpaper may resolve the issue. And what if this young home owner had no time or skill to complete a major home project? Under what criteria would they use to hire a skilled painter to do the job if they themselves have never painted anything in their lives? The paradox is equal to buying a brand new car, of course, you are accompanied by one of your parents or friend who has owned several cars in the past and knows what questions to ask and what issues to explore with the car’s features. It is the same way with hiring a painter, one must know something about painting or you could be a victim to price inflation, agreeing to the wrong recommended colors, or worse yet the wrong faux finish for your home’s lifestyle. What fathers should do is always request the “assistance” of their children when doing simple projects like the staining of wood surfaces, wall papering, painting and or dry-wall.
These are very important skills to at least attempt to engrain in the minds of young adults, because they are the future custodians of inherited property passed down from their parents to them. As I have seen in my 30 plus years of craftsmanship is that often the second generation is bewildered with basic home refurbishing and of course, painting. Whereas their Baby-boomer parents were accustomed to performing all the house hold renovations—major and minor—their adult children however are completely lost. There is one plus the younger generation has over their parents—the internet. The young home owners are able to research on the internet all of the possibilities of interior home painting to be found in our great state of Ohio. Often, my business babika Painting Inc, is contacted by the adult children of these Boomer parents who are requesting a unique faux paint finish for their childhood homes. I take fatherly pride in showing young homeowners how I perform my trade, the type of brushes and tools we use and sometimes I’ll even give a mini-lesson in proper brush stroke for virgin home painters. We here at babika Painting Inc take great pride in educating our home and business owners, we don’t “talk at you” or “strong arm” you like other a mature painters into choosing the wrong paint for the wrong surfaces. We share our experience with you from every brush stroke and from the very depths of our soul, painting is our way of life and it is a skill that has been passed down from our fathers to you.
There is no relationship more precious than family and secondly the relationship between family and the home they live in. I want that you spend your precious family time teaching not just your sons but also your daughters basic “home” skills that can carry with them into their adult lives when they become mature and responsible to become the custodian of your present home. At that future date Babika Painting Inc., will be waiting for their phone call to help take care of that childhood home.
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Posted in Painting · May 1st, 2010 · Comments (0)
Let’s remind ourselves what are Icons and what is iconography, before we explain how to paint Orthodox Icons. Iconography is a very old tradition of Orthodox Christian art which is found in ancient churches and monasteries in Byzantine Empire. Unlike other types of painting, iconography does not start in the painter’s imagination. Instead, an iconographer first have to study hard how an saint has been painted in traditionally way. So, when an iconographer create a new icon, he starts with searching for several examples of particular icon he wants to paint. Most of Byzantine Orthodox Icons depict Jesus Christ, his mother Mary, Saint John the Baptist and many other saints.
Lot of people today are interesting to start to paint Byzantine Orthodox icons, but they are not sure how to do that. Here we will try to explain how these ancint icons are painted and how we can paint icons them too.
Sure, one must have some talent for arts to be successful iconpainter.
Iconpainter start with a panel of lime
wood that is cut to size. Then a piece of gauze or other cotton is glued with rabbit skin glue to iconboard and dried for a few days. Next and very important step is to prepare quality leukas (plaster) from rabbit skin glue and chalk. Many layers of this plaster are applied to the board over cloth . When it comes to sand the surface to have completed a smooth finish.
Once the surface of our board is ready, we can proceed with drawing of our Orthodox icon. The sketch is first prepared on the piece of paper and then we tranfer it to the board contours. The surface of our icon now can be gilded with gold leaves . First we apply a few coats of red colour and then the glue of gold, which is known as mikstion (or mixtion). After a period of several hours golden leaves are applied and allowed to dry.
Painting of the icon is next step. To do this, iconographers use egg tempera which is mixture of pure pigments, water, yolk and vinegar . The colours are applied in several coats with subtle shades in order to achieve the effect of “otherworldliness” which is typical of Orthodox icons. Natural pigments are very permanent colours, deeper and deeper and brighter with the passage time.
Once we complete painting of our Orthodox Icons, we add on them hallo and inscriptions . The last step is to protect our icon with several coats of varnish.
This is very old method of iconography and requires great precision and care, and constant prayer and humility of the artist.
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Posted in Painting · April 22nd, 2010 · Comments (0)