Embellishments for scrap booking and card making can be very expensive and you get 24 in a package. You can get very cheap plastic flowers in the Dollar Store and if you don't like the color, you can always painted them!
Paint up some pretty drama using layers of color and texture. From clothing to the makeup, Impressionism was celebrated on the spring runways by mixing textures and colors to create light and movement. Here, catch up with makeup artist Sylvia Del Orto for the skinny on how to score this gorgeous look.
Spackle is an important step in repairing walls for painting. Meghan Carter demonstrates how to spackle a wall to achieve professional results. If you follow her tips, you'll get flawless finishes when you spackle without the hassle of sanding.
This Warhammer tutorial teaches you how to make realistic looking rust effects using cardboard and acrylic paint.
Want to make a modeling flock for Warhammer? This video shows you the simple way to make a model flock using paint, sawdust, and water.
This video will show you how to make some cheap Star Wars light saber movie props with a few hardware store items such as pvc pipe, pool cues, duct tape, electrical tape, and spray paint.
Make patches yourself instead of making them! I use fabric paint markers.
To build a robot suit you will need a football toy chest, a medium sized trash can, two old camera flashes, heater vent cover, two old Sega Genesis controllers, a big lamp shade, a big sheet of cardboard, dryer vent hose, plastic scale, old "Go-bots" brand 110 camera, spray paint; I used silver and gold.
Bob Seguin demonstrates how to carve and assemble a mini sewing machine out of basswood. The video walks your through preparing the wood, carving it, painting, and putting the pieces together.
Transferring a image to silk for silk painting is easy. You can easily transfer any image or design with a few simple steps.
There are several ways of protecting the wood on your deck. You can paint it, stain it, or seal it. I chose to seal my deck because I want to keep the natural wood color. You will need to repeat this process every few years depending on the effectiveness of the sealer you purchased.
In this two part video artist, Henry Li, shows you how to make rice paper shikishi board yourself for watercolor painting. You'll learn and quick and easy way to create your own material to eventually paint with watercolor. This is a great tutorial for all artist maybe looking to experiment with watercolors.
This video is a demonstration of painting a landscape using acrylics.
Learn how to paint a tree in watercolor by watching this video demonstration.
This video demonstrates painting a special type of landscape, a waterscape. This work is done in watercolor.
These are the basics for getting started airbrushing and custom painting for under 200$.
You can bet Thor costumes will be prominent among the superheroes seen this Oct. 31. Since the summer, there has been no shortage of coverage for Thor: Ragnarok, and the timing of its November release couldn't be better as a tie-in with the cosplaying holiday known as Halloween. This year, the success of pulling off the Thor costume will rely on how well your new Thor helmet looks, which as it happens, you can DIY at home, using a few simple supplies and perhaps a trip or two to the craft and...
You know Moana's a rock-solid pick for Halloween this year. The question is, how far will you go to become Moana? Are you going to just slap on a cream skirt and a red bandeau? Or do you want to go all out and end up with the finished product like YouTuber Gladzy Kei did?
Whether or not The Purge franchise will be as successful as Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, or even the Saw movies remains to be seen, but it's definitely winning in the Halloween costumes department.
Do you have a major mosquito problem? Well, here's a solution used by the military to drastically cut down their numbers.
Today we show you how to make horns for a costume. We specifically made horns for Maleficent, but you can shape and paint yours to like any type of thing.
Make a vintage jewelry box with a body butter jar and a glue gun with some additional craft supplies like paints. This projects costs almost nothing.
This video demonstrates the steps to take using Chip Foose's signature bronze base coat. Once the base coat is sprayed, we'll spray clearcoat.
Learn how to mask auto windshield and back glass molding using several techniques. These techniques will eliminate bridging, which is a problem many painters have. Watch the video to learn what bridging is and how to eliminate it.
Say whatever you want, but Steampunk is primarily a maker culture. Consider that Steampunk has existed since the 1960s and yet more or less languished in obscurity until approximately 2005, which is when it made the leap to costuming. That costuming was what provided the leap to the tangible, despite the fact that Steampunk art had also existed for years.
How to Paint a Skull. How to Draw Fantasy. I go over a few things in this skull drawings. In the same vein as How to Draw a Skull. Drawings of Skulls. I tried a new way of editing for this art video / art tutorial. Hope you enjoy it. For my main blog go to: http://howtodrawfantasyart.blogspot.com/
This simple how to will show you the steps to transform your face from a lovable person on the street to a spooky, scary or downright creepy wolf. Awhoooo werewolf in London! How about a werewolf, or just your regular wolf, right in your own backyard? You'll want a white base makeup, some blacks, grays, and eye liner. You can choose to add teeth if you want to get extra scary. So check it out and get wolfy!! Woof woof!
Awhoooo werewolf in London! How about a werewolf, or just your regular wolf, right in your own backyard? This simple how to will show you the steps to transform your face from a lovable person on the street to a spooky, scary or downright creepy wolf. You'll want a white base makeup, some blacks, grays, and eye liner. You can choose to add teeth if you want to get extra scary. So check it out and get wolfy!! Woof woof!
Like a rhinestone cowboy! Yahoo! Alright, time to get your arts and crafts on and create your very own rhinestone stencil template so you can dazzle and bedazzle your friends and family or whatever craft project you're currently working on. Follow the steps of this nice how-to and learn to make your very own rhinestone stencil template! You're going to need a program like MS Paint, Photoshop or some other image creation or design software to make your stencil.
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw a graffiti cartoon character on paper. First, draw the outline of the head and then draw in a waved line for the mouth. From here, draw a circle nose and then round eyes with curved eyebrows. Draw big round ears on each side. Then, draw in the hand holding a spray paint can and draw the body around this. The character should be wearing a short sleeved shirt and the other hand should be flipping off the screen. Draw in the pants and shoes, drawing lines o...
In this video, Meg shows us how to make a piece of graphic wall art with Threadbanger. First, gather stencils in the letters that you want. Then, place them on contact paper and trace them with a permanent marker. After this, cut the letters out and put them on the wall where you want them. Next, mark your wall with a ruler to make sure it's a straight bottom. From here, place your letters onto your canvas. Now, paint over your canvas and allow to dry. Once dried, very carefully remove each l...
Salvador Dali was a crazy old man, and we mean that in the most respectful way possible. He was, of course, the artist who painted the back of his wife's head exploding like a nuclear mushroom bomb. Exploding heads aside, he created some groundbreaking, ingenious works of art still heralded today, including the "Mae West Room."
The Cheshire cat from "Alice in Wonderland" has always beguiled and confused us. Such a cute, round kitty could never mean us any harm, right? Maybe not. The evil kitty's mischevious grin is enough to give us the willies.
Can you believe that Halloween is less than a month away? We swear just a few days ago it was 90 degrees out and we were blaring Katy Perry's "California Gurls" while driving down to the beach. Don't get us wrong, though: We're super excited it's fall because our favorite holiday, Halloween, is impending.
Using guns in your independent films is risky business, and expensive to boot. Since you probably don't need to actually shoot anything, you can probably get by with a replica prop gun. If you're gonna do that, why not make it yourself? This video will show you how to make a realistic prop Glock handgun with working trigger, slide and magazine lock.
If you consider yourself a "laser" man, then you probably know all about front-surface mirrors. But do you know how to make an FS mirror? This video from AP Digital light will show you how to make cheap first surface mirrors.
Red Bull isn't the only thing that gives you wings. In fact, you can don a pair of wings yourself by painting on winged cat liner on your eyelids. Winged liner is a coveted makeup look because it helps to lengthen and enlarge small eyes, make close set eyes appear farther apart, creates the illusion of more eyelashes, and gives you a sultry siren look. For such a simple tool it produces amazing, face-changing results.
In this tutorial, we learn how to create a burnt burgundy contoured face and eye look. First, apply a primer to the entire eyelid as a base. Next, apply a shimmer pink eyeshadow with an eyeshadow brush. Next, line the lash line with black eyeliner, and then blend a burnt burgundy eyeshadow onto the outside corner of the eyelids. Circle the brush so the colors all blend into one but will still have the darker color on the outside. Next, take the same burnt burgundy color and pant it onto the b...
Kids make the darndest things, don't they? And whether all they've done is scribble a bunch of modern art-esque lines using five Crayola crayons in one hand at the same time or simply stamped their hands with paint on paper, parents always think their efforts are cute and deserving of praise.
In her music video for "Not Myself Tonight," Christina Aguilera engages in some, er, racy antics, such as humping a guy with minimal clothing and practicing bondage/bdsm. All in a day's work for shock queen Aguilera, right?
