Sand Art Creations : A Collection of Laurence Dorming

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Sand art is the practice of modelling sand into an artistic form, such as a sand brushing, sand sculpture, sandpainting, or sand bottles. A sand castle is a type of sand sculpture resembling a miniature building, often a castle.

The two basic building ingredients, sand and water, are available in abundance on a sandy beach, so most sand play takes place there, or in a sandpit.

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Watercolor Collection by Rose Art

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All paints are pigment plus binder (medium) plus solvent. All paints use the same pigments for color. Watercolor uses gum arabic as the binder and water as the solvent. Pigments used for watercolor paints are very finely ground and each has its own characteristics. Watercolor paints are rated according to their lightfastness, usually receiving a I, II, III, IV, or VI being excellent and V meaning it is very unstable and will bleach out in a short period of time.

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Fantastic Paintings by Oliver Ray

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Oliver William Ray was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on the first day of fall in 1972. As the youngest of four siblings, he became a keen observer. An eclectic art collection complemented the family's vast library of artistic resources, and left the young “student” immersed in Fine Arts from the beginning. The most immediate and constant images in his life were of art.

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Windswept

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Here is a photograph from the top of Lydeard Hill in the Quantocks, Somerset, where I walked last weekend. It was a bright day but pretty misty and murky when looking into the distance.

The soft green and purple patchwork colours from the landscape made an interesting - and quite moody - backdrop and I like the way the trees have bent in one direction against the prevailing wind.

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MARCH 31 GO SOUTH....

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Insomnia strikes even with the sound of the ocean doing it’s best to lull you to sleep…This morning it struck at 3.00 am…

Still dark….. and going to be for 2 and a 1/2 hours, so I took my time getting dressed, managing to drag each leg of my shorts into a 15 second process and a further 10 seconds to pick up the camera….I was still on the beach with 2 hours 29 minutes and a few random seconds to go before dawn..

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