Leading Glasgow Boy artist Crawhall here embraces a sense of late 19th-century modernism through a watercolour of his sister Beatrice, on a bicycle. As a painter renowned for his depiction of animals, the theme also gave him a chance to include the family dachshund, Fritz. NW Over the years I’ve repaired a number of canvas paintings and I will walk you through my steps. My example is of a canvas with a farily large rip in it. And don’t worry, it’s easy.

Create a Festive Landscape: Transform your space into a Christmas wonderland with Creative Puzzle Puncture Painting. Experience the warmth of the holidays as you capture the essence of the season. You can see here that the fibres of the canvas were pulled apart when the damage occurred, leaving a jagged uneven edge. ComedyDude54 IA - My overall favourite DVD is the CBEEBIES Big Fun Time DVD. What about your favourite DVD? Nice one Corey! Please can you name me all of your favourite episodes from all of your favourite CBEEBIES programmes/CBEEBIES programmes you watched when you were little? So far, the Balamory episodes I have uploaded are: Somerscales was born in Hull in 1842 where his father was a shipmaster and he duly went to sea himself, as a teacher in the Royal Navy. After being discharged he spent some time in Chile – he is still claimed as a Chilean artist – and made a career as one of the most significant maritime artists of his generation. NW OK. I'll see if I have those episodes and if I do, I'll upload them as soon as possible. Also, I have a book based on The Power Cut. It's called The Puppet Show. Well, I might read it one day in my Milo Jennings Reads programme.Boltanski, who died last year, made autobiographical art that probed history, memory and mortality. Here it finds expression in more than 200 Japanese bells, swaying and chiming in the wind on an island to produce what he called the “music of the souls”. The bells are rearranged in the positions of the stars on the night of Boltanski’s birth. NW What color appears most in the area you want to fix? That is the color you want to match. If there is a blend of lighter and darker colors, go with the lighter colors, because you can add in the dark from the front to blend in the tear.

The street art of 1970s and 1980s Northern Ireland depict a contentious heritage. These striking murals come from a tragic age. They are an important part of the art map of Britain precisely because they remind us of that cruel time. JJ Imagination Unleashing: Unleash your child's imagination with Puncture Painting. This creative activity allows them to create unique princess stories and scenes, boosting their creativity and imagination.

Using Gainsborough's PC-1035 Lining Compound for Lining Oil Paintings

Unleash your kids' inner artist and poke their ways to masterpiece creations! It's like connect-the-dots, but with fabrics and a whole lot of fun! To make sure the canvas was adhered well, with no bumps or bubbles, I used a Speedball rubber brayer. You can see it in the 3rd image below. He fixes his eyes on you unnervingly, from a face pummelled into dough by age and hardship, yet wearing grand robes, and proudly holding his brushes. This is arguably the greatest of Rembrandt’s harrowing, but uplifting self-portraits. JJ Millais was just 19 when he painted Isabella. Drawing on a story by Boccaccio, via a poem by Keats, it features the stylistic aspects of early Italian art and was one of the first works to be described as pre-Raphaelite. NW A torn, punctured, or disturbed canvas will lead to widespread instability in the paint layer, especially the area around the tear which will begin to flake and come away. The longer a torn painting is left without intervention, the more developed the damage may become, thus requiring a more intensive restoration to save it from devastation. Torn painting restoration by trained professionals

Banksy at his most Hogarthian, painting a Carry On-style scene rather than making a political point. At least I don’t think there’s a satirical message in the naked man dangling from the window ledge to hide from a suspicious husband. JJ

Anthea Hamilton, Leg Chair (Sushi Nori), 2012. Photograph: Doug Atfield/Courtesy the artist/ Wakefield Permanent Art Collection Yorkshire These deep red and purple canvases depict nothing, and do it sublimely. Rothko was torn between a sensual feel for colour and a bleakly pessimistic view. Those forces balance here. JJ Riley is that rare thing, a great British abstract painter. Since the early 60s, her carefully calculated yet emotionally turbulent optical art has led eyes a merry dance. This later work creates a swaying, waltz-like movement that is beguiling in its radiant authority. JJ

When I asked what are your favourite DVDs I meant real DVDs not recorded ones so what are your favourite real DVDs? A torn painting may seem like a disaster. Whether there is a dramatic rip tearing through the face of a portrait or the intricate details of a landscape, or a small puncture wound to the canvas, these damages can be flawlessly fixed by a specialist oil painting conservator. This set of 16 portraits of Welsh workers from the first half of the 19th century is remarkable not for the quality of the art – they are thought to have been painted by jobbing artist William Jones Chapman – but for the fact that they exist at all. They were commissioned by Francis Crawshay, a man with his own artistic ambitions who had been put in charge of his father’s ironworks. He learned Welsh to speak to his workers and treated them as equals. A record of industrial life of that time. NW This is history painting for the swinging 1960s: a screenprint from a pap shot of Jagger and his art dealer “Groovy Bob” Fraser in the police van after that drug bust at Keith Richards’ home. Hamilton’s choice of subject speaks of societal crossroads. SS Alison Wilding and Adam Kershaw – Still Water, National Memorial to British Victims of Overseas Terrorism

Using Beva® 371 Film for Patching Oil Paintings

A masterpiece of early photography that plays up to images of Italy as a land of passion, as a model poses as the villain from Shakespeare’s Othello. His brooding intensity conveys dark thoughts. But this portrait by a Victorian woman is above all an unabashed celebration of saturnine male beauty. JJ One of the glories of 18th-century Meissen porcelain, this figurine was made for Augustus the Strong of Saxony at a time when porcelain was regarded as “white gold”. It was to be part of a never-completed vast menagerie. NW This was the fun part for me. Just keep mixing until you get the closest color match you can. This painting seemed to have a blue underpainting so I did that and then waited a few days and then put the orange over it. Pay attention to details like this, and try to match the brushstrokes.