Sennelier

Today there are many different styles of art witch may include painting, sculpting, drawing, collages, ceramics, prints, tapestries, etc. There are also many different brands of paints, canvases, drawing pencils, basically anything you would need for any art project, or art work. There's a wide variety of them.

For paints there are watercolor paints, acrylic paints, and oil paints. "There are many different brands of paints for example there are Dunhn-Edwards, Ralph Lauren Home, Benjamin Moore, Valspar, Behr, Lowe's, and Consumer Search" (Types of Paints). As you can see their are a wide verity of brands of paints for people to use. The most commonly used for artist is the Sennelier products.

With Sennelier their are watercolors, oils, dry pigments, chalk, pastels, varnish, and many more. The Sennelier products are very expensive. Depending on the color you get the prices range from $8-$20 for a 40mL tub and $20-$100 for a 200mL tub (Prices).

Many artist love this brand. Sennelier products are a French brand of art supplies, produced in 1887. These product were specially made for Pablo Picasso. Picasso liked to use the Sennelier oils for most of his paintings, because it is better suited to the diversity of modern techniques. "The slightly heavier body retains its unique creaminess while offering greater versatility" (Sennelier Pro). Sennelier has remade their products several times. Other people prefer other brands though, not saying that you have to use this types of paint and stuff. You may use whatever works for you best.

For me, I use sketching pencils when I draw. Usually would get them from Walmart but I found the best ones that work for me are Staedtler, Mars Lumograph. You can find this brand mostly at staples or hobby lobby that's where I could find them. Or if I could find some when I need them I would use colored drawing pencils. I've never used  Sennelier products before, but from some of the art work I saw they we're pretty well. After seeing what their products can do I'm thinking about buying some.



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Picasso Paintings and his Blue Period

Pablo Picasso was someone who was very busy with his art work he made paintings, ceramics, prints, tapestries, drawings, sculptures, etc was extremely productive. "One site reports 50,000 art works in total, including 1,885 paintings, while another site reports 13,500 paintings, and another suggests over 20,000 paintings! Keep in mind he was painting for over 75 years, but that's still a lot of paintings." Artsology

Picasso had went through a blues phase. The Blue Period of Picasso was between 1900 and 1904. When he painted he essentially used shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors. They are now some of his most popular works, but at the time he had difficulty selling them.

Picasso had settled in Paris in 1904, spent some difficult years with no studio and little artistic success. In 1903 Picasso's Blue Period was developed, which reflect his experience of relative poverty and instability, depicting beggars, street urchines, the old and frail and the blind.

It is uncertain when this period started; it could have began in Spain during the spring of 1901, or in Paris towards the end of the year. In choosing sober colors and sometimes doleful subject matter, example prostitutes. Beggars and drunks are frequent subjects. He was influenced by his journey through Spain. Also influenced by the suicide of his dear friend Carlos Casagemas. He had who took his life at the L’Hippodrome Café in Paris, France. By shooting himself in the right temple on February 17, 1901 Carlos Casagemas died.

Another influence to Picasso's blue period paintings was a woman's prison, which was St. Lazare in Paris. In this prison nun served as guards. In one of his paintings he has painted two sisters but in all the two sisters were actually a prisoner and a nun. The painting is an example of how he used to mix daily reality with Christian iconography.




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How Picasso came to his art work

Pablo was 8 when he started painting, he would make drawing but they were different from children's drawing today. At Picasso's young age, like mature artists would draw and paint, children were expected to draw as closely to nature as possible.

Pablo received drawing lessons at school, in Malaga Spain, at the age 5 and on. Children were taught based on the simple geometric forms how to draw, which lead to more detail and an accurate image of the subject. This approach to art would develop Picasso's sense of space, geometry and lay a foundation for the ease. His father sent him to schools where he worked as a teacher and gave him sessions.

Since Pablo's father was an art teacher he would take control of all of his education in art. Picasso's father was present in his life either at school or at home. In his first two major paintings, which were "The First Communion" which was painted in 1896 and "Science and Charity" painted in 1897, Pablo includes the (rather uninspired) portrait of his father.

Pablo's father used his influence with local newspapers to promote his work. As well as with jury members of art contests, that Pablo was in. His father got a new job at the an art school called Instituto da Guarda in La Coruna, to where they would have to move there and change schools. Pablo joins his father at the school as a student, in 1892.

For three years Pablo started with the copying of basic forms, which he enjoyed. Geometric forms was used to create a simplified form of the natural object. By using that, more detail was added in several highly methodical stages. Pablo basically followed his father where ever he went.

His father was appointed at the art academy La Lonja in Barcelona, in 1895, where once again he was joined by Pablo. By renting him a studio in Barcelona, Pablo's father promoted Pablo's independence.

Picasso starting off his career

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Pablo Picasso is a Spanish painter. He was born October 25 in 1881, thus Pablo Picasso the painter was born.

A Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, who is one of the greatest and most influential artist of the 20th century. His real name is Pablo Diego Jośe Francisco de Paula Juana Nepomucena María de Los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso. His talent came from his father who was a painter and a(n) art teacher. He displayed a remarkable talent for drawing at a very young age. Some say his very first words were "piz piz" which is Spanish for pencil. His very own father taught him how to draw and paint in his early childhood. At the age of 13 Pablo's paintings were better executed than is father's. he lost all desire to  do any school work what so ever and started spending his day ps doodling in his note books, because of that Pablo was recalled as "for being a bad student". So he would be sent to a cell by all of his teachers. Pablo didn't mind being sent to the cell because he was in the cell he had more time to draw. 

Pablo is know for creating his very first piece (painting) at the age of ten. The painting was called first communion, it is very realistic for a thirteen year old. In the image it is showing his sister Lola receiving her First Communion.