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Charlotte Babb - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Charlotte Babb is a writer, painter, and web designer in the Upstate of South Carolina. She manages web sites for writers and other clients, including Harry Rubin, N.L. Williams, Sullivan Maxx Literary Agency, and the Southeastern Writers Association.
Her interests include fantasy and science fiction, fairy tales and mythology. She has two blogs, Wise Authors Write for Dollars for writers who want to learn to write and market themselves on the web, and Wishes ... [More]
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- Should Beginners Learn How to Paint With Acrylics?
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Beginners should learn how to paint with acrylics because they can paint quickly to get over being afraid of making a mistake, which is how people learn anything. The more mistakes they make, and correct by painting over with acrylics, the more quickly and deeply they learn.
- Should You Choose Basic Or Professional Paints For Learning How to Paint Acrylic?
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] The initial expense of tools for painting in acrylic can make people shy away from getting better quality materials while they are learning.Much like using cheap, limp brushes that come apart, or that won't hold shape, student quality paint often does not cover as well, and may not mix as true to color. A better way is to choose a few of the less expensive pigments and a few good brushes that will provide a successful experience.
- Choose the Right Paint For Learning How to Paint Acrylic
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Knowing how to paint acrylic starts with choosing the right type of paint. Beginners often choose craft acrylics, which are liquid, the texture of milk, rather than the thicker artist acrylics that come in tubes, but all types of acrylic can be mixed together for different effects.
- Learning Online - Seven Strategies For Success
[Reference-and-Education:Online-Education] Online college classes are convenient, allowing students to work around their work and home schedules. But unless you realize how different online is than "on ground" and plan for the extra time required, you may be spending a lot of money for low grades, high frustration and diminished tuition reimbursement.
- Back to School After 30 - You're Not Too Old to Learn a Few New Tricks
[Reference-and-Education:Online-Education] Here's the good news! Non-traditional students (over age 24) are going back to college online in droves, and they are very successful.
- Back to School For Teachers - 5 Essential Items That Won't Cost You a Dime
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] "But I don't want to go to school!" says the punchline of the old joke. You have to.
- Visualization Problems? Get Physical!
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] When we speak of imagination, that is IMAGE activity, it sounds like we are talking about seeing pictures. In fact, imagination includes all the senses as well as the sensation of moving through space. In a very real sense (excuse the pun), all our "knowledge" of the world is our imagination, our interpretation of sensory data that we get from our bodies, our eyes, ears, hands and other organs, even our gut and backbone.
- Ground and Center - What Does That Mean and How Do I Do It?
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Being grounded and centered in your body and in the present moment gives you a heightened sense of awareness. Not only is this the most productive way to live, it is a critical mindset for psychic activity. If your mind and energies are scattered across several planes, your readings and magical workings will not be focused. Your results will be, as the computer folks say, "unpredictable."
- Using Active Imagination to Access Psychic Knowledge
[Reference-and-Education:Psychic] Although automatic writing is done while in a trance, automatic writing is done while conscious and aware. It is a gestalt type of dialog, where the writer poses a question of some other being, part of the psyche, the past or future self, or even fictional characters. Then the other answers through the subconscious to the imagination.
- What is a Book of Shadows?
[Reference-and-Education:Paranormal] Hundreds of books on how to do magic fill the shelves at bookstores and libraries, and if those are not available to you, the internet is also a wide ranging resource, full of information and crap on this subject as with any other. Following Silver Ravenwolf or Diane Stein or Ted Andrews or Richard Webster is excellent for learning, but you are likely to find that some of their recommendations work better for you than others or that they completely disagree on certain issues.
- Magical Ritual Practice - Meaningful Or Just Superstition?
[Self-Improvement:Techniques] Always keep your Tarot wrapped in silk. Cut with your left hand. Light a candle and say a prayer. Never let anyone else touch your cards. Are these magical rules critical to success or are they just old wives tales to inspire fear and keep knowledge hidden from apprentices and solitaries?
- Semicolon - Punctuation Nemesis Tamed
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] One of the few concepts taught after fourth grade about writing is the semicolon, that mysterious mis-matched mark of mangled sentences. Some teachers ban its use entirely because some students use it too liberally, as if they had a semicolon shaker to scatter over their compositions. Where then, should you use a semicolon, and why?
- Victims of Love and the Shadow of Aphrodite, The Love Goddess
[Womens-Interests] As little girls we are told of Cinderella, of Beauty and the Beast, of Rapunzel and Snow White, all rescued from the evil of elder women (psychological images of our mothers) by the love of a prince-and some of us are still looking for him. Where do these stories come from, and what do ancient Greek myths have to do with it? Aphrodite is known as the Goddess of Love, but she personifies more clearly infatuation and lust, the dark shadow of erotic love, the momentary passion that fades quickly into boredom or hate. Our stories for little girls speak often of first love, first kiss, and the thrill of infatuation. But the stories stop with a wedding, and never present the work that is required by any amount of happily ever after.
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