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African Oil Paintings – The Majesty of Light & Colour
Oct 12th
Early European Interpretations – A Land Without People?
The depiction of Africa’s landscape and its wildlife has an immense history. From rock paintings that are mankind’s oldest continuously practised art form, to modern day oil paintings that still search, experiment, and feel their way down new avenues into the vibrant global art market. Oil paintings of elegant human figures, richly hued animals, and subtle More >
History of Oil Painting
Oct 7th
In reality oil painting is a fairly new art style. Oil painting as a painting medium, the usage of oil in combination with other pigments counts back to 1400. Prior to oil painting, painting in general dates its history back to the period of stone age, painting in that era was made with the usage of binders unlike oil painting mixed with some kind of pigments like egg in tempera paints.
The fifteenth century was seen More >
Choosing Home Furniture
Oct 6th
If you’re moving into a new home or redecorating an old what better way to freshen up your lifestyle than by choosing some elegant new furniture to match.
On our website we have a huge range to select from – everything from stylish Rustic Oak to sleek modern Oak, Pine and Glass.
We have furniture ranges to suit all pockets and for every room in the house – bedroom, dining, lounge, kitchen and even a wide More >
3 Secrets Of Magicians
Oct 3rd
Magicians have their secrets, but they won’t tell. It is an oath for magicians not to tell the audience how a trick is done. There are 3 secrets though that they have shared over the year. Here are their 3 secrets.
The first secret is that some tricks are done through a sleight of hand. These are ways that skillfully hide an object and make it reappear elsewhere. New magicians hide things up his sleeve. Those are old tricks and very few use now.
Sleight require much practice to master. Beginners use specially created magic tricks to create the illusion. Professional magicians use their impressive dexterity of the hand. It takes time, patience and hand coordination to understand and do.
Another secret is the art of misdirection. See this blank paper? And as audience looks at the blank paper, he is carefully getting another piece with his other hand. This is misdirection. Another type of misdirection is the kind that doesn’t let the audience see what’s really causing the tricks. You might have seen that a magician has a lot of assistants who also do incredible stuff, but what you didn’t know is that they are helping the magician perform the magic just with their presence.
Another kind of misdirection is the appropriate use of words. For example, a magician will tell you to look at the ‘empty’ box. We tend to look at the box as empty just because he said it. This causes our mind to wonder when the magician gets a rabbit out of it.
Misdirection takes a lot of practice and lots of time in planning. It requires body coordination (one body doing something while the other is doing another thing) and quick thinking. Misdirection is an art and magicians are proud of it.
Another secret is the constant pounding or talk about a magician. Redirection is achieved mostly due to pounding. The Wizard will ask you to look at his right hand and what you are looking for, you will not realize what your left hand is doing. This is a very clever way to achieve the illusion that what happens next becomes so magical with the wink of an eye.
Patter usually takes the form of a story, where a magician will tell you something that happened to him someday. Sometimes it’s so fun to actually forget to watch what his hands are doing or what his aides are giving them.