How To Make Distilled Water
Here's how to make distilled water in your kitchen. Put the baking rack on the bottom of the stainless-steel pot. Fill the pot half way with tap water. Place the glass bowl in the pot, so that it floats on the surface of the water. The baking rack should ensure that the bottom of the glass bowl doesn't touch the pot.
Turn the pot cover upside down and place it on top of the pot. Fill the inverted pot cover with ice. Bring the water to a boil and let it boil for about 45 minutes, replacing the ice as necessary. As the water boils it becomes steam. The steam will hit the cold lid of the pot and be cooled down to become water again. Some of the water will drip into the glass bowl. That's the distilled water. Turn off the gas. Remove the lid from the pot. Allow the distilled water in the bowl to cool down and then you can store it in bottles.
2. I suggest you view larger sizes of the images before voting - right click on the image and it should open in a new tab in your browser - so you can see all the work properly. 3. Decide which picture you like best (see images below) in each of the FOUR different categories below and then vote in the poll relating to each category.
5. The work which attracts the most votes in total is also declared PICTURE OF THE YEAR! I will announce the winner of each category in the Best Picture - Making A Mark Awards in a post on Tuesday 31st December. They're relieved by small dots and dashes of movement and highlights. It certainly leaves you feeling as if you're sitting in an urban traffic jam. Haidee-Jo has an excellent eye for colour and tone and her draughtsmanship is pretty good too.
She paints in a looser impressionistic way. One of the things I like particularly about the way she works is that she keeps going back to the same place and painting what is basically the same scene from slightly different perspectives and in different seasons. I also chose it because it seemed to me the place category needed a bit of sunlight! Sarah is also an excellent example of a painter who produces a lot of paintings which sell.
Making A Mark Awards 2013: Which is the best artwork - Place - created by a blogger and posted on an art blog in 2013, I review at least three top notch portrait exhibitions each year as well as seeing a lot of paintings of people - as portraits and figurative work - in other exhibitions. I was amazed at just how many people paint portraits as "heads" which have no background and no interesting lighting. Where's the background which explains who this person is,
Why stop at just the head, Why was this view the of an individual person chosen from the options available options, I cannot tell you how depressing it is to view images on blogs which come up in response to specific queries on Google. There are far too many bad copies of photographs of celebrities! I also like the use of chiaruscuro and the fact that not all the features are in the light and the painting might have used a photograph for reference but is not hyper-realist photographic in style.
The foreground of bottles and glasses looks natural and is a good foil for the rest of the painting - while adding in a subtle threat that this might be a man who is out of control. I'm also very fond of portraits which use a Holbein Blue background although this one has not adopted the smooth and flat approach employed by Holbein.
This one ticks the boxes for grouping, context and not being afraid to portray a person while not showing all their face or features. What I like about this image is you get two 'portrait's for the price of one. It also has context and a reality which will amuse all cat owners who are very familiar with this particular tactic for getting breakfast served! Plus it's a collograph accented by the use of coloured pencils - and I always like people who explore the full range of media available to an artist.
