PETRYKIVKA DECORATIVE PAINTING: THEORY AND METHODOLOGY

French Aesthetics: Contemporary Painting Theory

A Knowledge Based Approach to Modeling Portrait Painting Methodology

Traditional portrait artists use a specific but open human vision methodology to create a painterly portrait of a live or photographed sitter. Portrait artists attempt to simplify, compose and leave out what’s irrelevant, emphasizing what’s important. While seemingly a qualitative pursuit, artists use known but open techniques such as relying on source tone over colour to indirect into a colour...

DECORATIVE CHROMIUM and CADMIUM SUBSTITUTES

Although alloy tin plating has been known and used for many years, this paper will describe the use of a new non-cyanide tin/zinc alloy as a possible replacement coating for cadmium and the use of a tin/nickel alloy as a possible substitute for barrel decorative chromium plating. A review on the corrosion properties of tin, zinc and cadmium compared to tin/zinc alloys and review of the properti...

Versatile Decorative Halftoning

This paper describes a flexible tool for decorative halftoning. Decorative halftoning produces a picture that can be seen simultaneously on two levels: either as an over-all image, or as a grid of much smaller motif images. The tool presented here is flexible: any small image can be used as a motif. When the motif is a black-and-white image, this tool improves on other techniques, which cannot ...

Decorative Portrats by Leonard Limousin

concentrate our attention upon the work of the little-known or even anonymous masters and endeavor to delineate the outlines of a "style" belonging not only to an individual but to a generation and a country. Particular problems in the decorative arts can in this way lead to an understanding of the mind and taste of a bygone age that is quite unexpected. Hence it is that such studies in the hig...