While other fabric and wallpaper purveyors, such as Eskayel, are creating the look of shibori patterns through hand-painting, workshops teaching the real thing are popping up from California to Maine giving anyone who's wearied of the ikat trend the opportunity to dye another way.

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Rubbish and graffiti often go hand-in-hand but spray painting pavements could stop people littering - at least that is the theory a Cardiff student is putting to the test.

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Instead of painting their portraits by hand, he adapted a technique from commercial printing, in which a photographic image could be transferred to canvas by pushing paint through a mechanically-produced silkscreen template.

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The Rothko painting was one of eight works hand-selected by the Russian-American artist for his landmark solo show in 1954 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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It begins with pieces from "Freeze, " which include some Donald-Judd-influenced Minimalist colored boxes and the first spot painting, the dripped paint revealing the hand of the artist himself.

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The month went by slowly, like a painting as it takes shape under the hand of a painter with only one canvas and 1, 000 ideas, each day layered with new colours and textures.

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Rizzi was due to hand in three separate course work projects for classes in painting, printmaking and sculpture.

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Throughout Europe in the 19th century, the Raphael painting's reputation grew through written accounts, hand-drawn copies and, eventually, mass reproductions.

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It was usually as a blurred face at the back of a painting, behind a huge plant, or casually in a hand mirror.

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