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2. Michaels - Wikipedia

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   Michaels Stores, Inc., more commonly known as Michaels, is a privately held retail chain of American and Canadian arts and crafts store. It is North America's largest provider of arts, crafts, framing, floral and wall décor, and merchandise for makers and do-it-yourself home decorators . [ 2 ]

3. Stretcher bar - Wikipedia

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   Although artists use blank canvases and pre-stretched canvases in the art business, many photographers use stretcher bars for framing wedding photography and reproduction of photographic prints. Stretcher bars are also used in picture framing when framers are framing things like sport shirts etc. Stretcher bars are used extensively in ...

4. Support (art) - Wikipedia

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   The oldest known use of fabrics as a painting support dates back to the Dynasty XII in Egypt (2000 BC).The continuous use can be traced in both Europe and Asia. In Medieval Europe fabrics was overtaken by the wood panels for church use; Renaissance, with its wider spread of paintings, saw wide use of canvas, occasionally glued to the wood, a practice that originated in the Ancient Egypt, but ...

5. Ground (art) - Wikipedia

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   A detail of a self-portrait by Rembrandt.Three scratches in the center reveal the reddish ground. In visual arts, the ground (sometimes called a primer) is a prepared surface that covers the support of the picture (e.g., a canvas or a panel) and underlies the actual painting (the colors are overlaid onto the ground).

6. Paint by number - Wikipedia

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   The Craft Master paint kit box tops proclaimed, "A BEAUTIFUL OIL PAINTING THE FIRST TIME YOU TRY." In the 1960s, the first images of Mars were completed like a painting by numbers. Following the death of Max Klein in 1993, his daughter Jacquelyn Schiffman donated the Palmer Paint Co. archives to the Smithsonian Museum of American History. [3]

7. Michael Armitage (artist) - Wikipedia

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   In 2020, Armitage also founded the non-profit Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute, which aims to promote contemporary art in the city. [5] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Armitage began painting en plein air. [10] In May 2022, the Royal Mint announced that he would design a new £1 coin for the United Kingdom, to be issued in 2023. [3]