Review of 'The Narrow Escape' Painting (A Non-fictional true life story)

It was 3.20pm that fateful day. I was returning from 'No way Out' where I went to watch John Cena Vs Great Khali. When I reached the 'Death Valley', I saw pandemonium. People were shouting, running helter skelter and with their hands on their heads. Chikena, their slippers were flying in the air and their heels was touching the back of their heads. Wetin katakata be this?? One obgeni said Na Boko haram o, another Madagascar dey say na armed robbers.

When I don come walk only 200 feets, i ran into the trap. Wahala dey o! quickly quickly, i dived for bush like Arnold schwarzzenegger. Unknown to me, the part where i dived to has got a slope., so down i go Zzzzzzzhzzzh like jangle over. When i finally landed, i climbed back way to the top, peeped unto the street and thanked God for saving me from their bullets or even bombs. I dusted myself, put hands for pocket and discovered that the luv letter i want to send to a prospective girlfriend in china has disappeared! LOL, it is just a joke!!

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WHY IT IS FROM AFRICA_ THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THIS PAINTING

Africa though, a black continent., is the second largest continent after Asia.

Africa as a continent is known for its rich and diverse cultural and traditional heritages. These heritages serves to express the people's beliefs, customs and traditions. The usual outlets for the dissemination or expression were through arts, music and worships.

'Why it is From Africa' beam the searchlight on the painting above titled 'FROM AFRICA'., in the light of Nigerian culture nay Africa.

The two dark motifs on the left originates from the Igbo traditional decorative motifs., and they are called "Isi-Oji" and "Okala Isi-Oji" respectively. These motifs are gotten from the kolanut, which is a sacred fruit traditional among the three dominant ethnic groups in Nigeria_ Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. This kolanut fruit is for welcoming visitors as well as in carrying out rituals according to customs.

The calabashes with its own decorative patterns are mostly used by the Fulani people of the north for milking, eating and herb preparation. Calabashes are generally used in Africa.

The background colours stand for the Rich and Beautiful  African landscapes so much blessed by God., together with abundant natural resources.

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Landscape Study: Peace and Unity

Whenever the word "landscape" is used

in painting, two things comes to mind., an aspect of nature and things on land. In painting, the term landscape denotes work representing non-living things in the environment especially houses, mountains, hills, trees and so on, which are skilfully arranged in order of perspective (that is bearing distance in mind). Most of the time, landscape painting and nature painting are used interchangeably to mean the same thing., but they do not mean the same thing., although they are closely related.
PEACE AND UNITY is an oil on canvas work depicting and expressing unity, love and peace, irrespective of one's tribe or nationality. The piece has rich colours that complemented each other, presenting the eyes with delightful natural-looking strokes that I achieved through close observation of nature and realism. This is not to say the work was copied from nature., it is clearly one of my African piece.
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7 ways to make your Oil Painting on Non-absorbent Canvas Permanent

When it comes to using canvas as your support for an oil painting, what is usually borne in mind is to achieve an excellent and permanent art piece that can last for an adequate period of time. However, canvas of various textures, weight and types are utilized. While some of these canvasses are primed, some are not., and while some are absorbent (suitable for a permanent finishing) others are non-absorbent.
In consideration of all the above qualities, painters no doubt choses canvas that aids the free and smooth flow of the oil paints, absorbs the paint and ultimately dries to achieve a permanent piece e.t.c more than any other type of canvases.
Non-absorbent canvas is largely unsuitable and unprefered in oil painting., reason being that they are usually heavy or thick, doesn't absorb paints and it disposes paints to rub-offs. But I want to convince oil painters that Non-absorbent canvases can be made use of, albeit certain steps are to be taken to make your work permanent and rub-proof.
Below are the steps I took to achieve this:-
1. Frame your canvas before use.
2. Begin your painting process, but ensure that your oil paint is thoroughly thinned down using linseed oil or any other thinners. e.g. kerosene.
3. After the painting process, place in the sun to evaporate and dry off. This will leave the work powder-textured when felt or touched, but willn't blow away.
4. Using Glue or adhesives that becomes transparent when dry, apply first coating over the piece.
5. After the first coating, place in the sun to dry.
6. When dried, apply a second coating., and leave to dry.
7. Congrat! your work is now rub-proof and permanent. You can now make use of all your Non-absorbent canvases, enjoy yourself.
N.B: Your coatings must be light. Do remove brush hairs that are detached during the coatings as attempt to remove them when the glue has dried will cause peeling off of that area.
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