It's well known that I love everything to do with flowers... but when it comes to drawing/painting, I think my eyes don't have the required talent to artistically identify shapes and colours. Still, I told myself I wanted to draw flowers and I had to find a way to achieve this! And so I decided to take an ethical "copy-paste" approach to this: I photographed as many flowers as possible I imported my selected picture into my iPad digital drawing app: Procreate® Using my Apple Pen, I traced the outlines of my flower into a new layer and voila! The main flower was drawn! Working with different layers and techniques, I coloured in the flowers and added some extra elements to finalise my drawing. If the frontal digitally drawn hydrangea looks extremely similar to the photographed one, it's because I digitally traced the original
Nowadays we're all aware of the insane dangers of radioactivity. So, if you came across a job description asking you to " swallow small amounts of a highly toxic and radioactive substance all day long , 5 days a week", you certainly wouldn't apply, right? As crazy as it sounds, this job used to exist! Women in the 1910s painted watch dials with a special radium-based paint that glowed in the dark. Unknown author / Public domain These women kept their brushes pointy by constantly licking them, without knowing that the radium they were bringing into their bodies was extremely dangerous! If you want to learn about the Radium Girls, the tragic health effects they faced and thei
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