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How to Give Wood Trimming a Facelift Without Removing It

Over time, light, cleaning chemicals and environmental problems can make your wood trim look dull. While it's not difficult to remove wood trim, there's no need to go to the trouble. A few chemicals and a little elbow grease are all you need to brighten your wood trim and give your entire living are

How to Wire Ibanez Prestige EMGs

The Ibanzez Prestige line of guitars feature all access neck joints, custom inlays and upgraded hardware that enhances performance and playability. Adding EMG-made pickups can provide the high output and distinct tone for which EMG has gained international recognition. This pickup manufacturer has s

How to Draw Lips

At first try, drawing lips seems very difficult. Your first drawing comes out simplistic, the next over-detailed and wrong. It seems that without a complex understanding of shading and depth, you'll never be able to draw a perfect pair of lips. Not true! While all art is subjective, this article

How to Remove and Scrape Exterior Paint

If your home has wood siding, one of your maintenance tasks is painting the siding every few years. This helps protect the wood in the siding while at the same time preventing your home from looking shabby. Usually painting your siding involves adding a new coat of paint over existing layers, but af

How to Draw Chibi Sakura

Sakura Haruno is a major character in Naruto Shippuden. She is a member of Kakashi and a chunin level ninja. Sakura is identifiable in the series by her pink hair and bright green eyes. Drawing a Chibi Sakura involves creating the basic Chibi form and adding certain signature characteristics. Sakura

Group Theater Games for Kids

Games make learning fun.games image by Ewe Degiampietro from Fotolia.comKids naturally know how to pretend to be someone or something else, but they must be taught how to act. Rather than overwhelm your young thespians with tedious practice and rote memorization, why not use games to help...

How to Draw Tables

Whether you want to amuse yourself by drawing items from your home or want to seriously pursue an art career, being able to draw tables realistically is important. WIth few exceptions, an unrealistic setting in a work of art can hurt the overall image as well as discredit the artist. This is why bei

How to Refinish a Bathroom Shower

You can rejuvenate the appearance of your bathroom shower by refinishing it with the proper coating. Before you begin the application process, consider some important points. Because showers are nonporous, they are unable to absorb the adhesives within paint. You must abrade the shower with sandpape

How to Clean a Wagner Power Painter Plus

Painting your house used to be an ordeal that required sloppy paint buckets and trays, brushes and rollers. Thanks to improvements in technology, the advent of hand-held power painters makes the job of painting your house that much easier. The Wagner Power Painter Plus is a popular power painter sol

Artist Tools Used to Blend & Smudge Pastels & Charcoals

Using your finger to blend charcoal and pastel is not only messy, but the natural oils in your fingers will distort color, limit the erasability of charcoal and decrease the longevity of the art. Investing in a wide range of blending and smudging tools is essential for the serious artist...

How to Make a Text Box on Sumo Paint

Sumo Paint is a free online graphics editor that includes many of the features found in expensive desktop graphics editors, including layers, color adjustment and filters to create image effects. You can use a variety of tools to draw, create shapes and color your images. You can also write text dir

Painting Furniture to Look Victorian & Distressed

Victorian furniture, produced from the mid-19th century through the first years of the 20th century, was known for heavily ornamented, sturdy, Gothic-influenced construction. Pieces were typically made of ash, black walnut, maple, oak, rose or butternut wood with glass or wood hardware. Though much