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This website is a great source that has taught me a lot about different shading techniques. The purpose of this website is to simple give you shading techniques. This website was really useful for me when I had to bring home artwork to finish and couldn't have the help of an "actual" art teacher. This source is very reliable because the website was created by a former art teacher and student in Scotland. I also found this site helpful from all the descriptions and visuals that helped walk me through the process of shading. I feel like by focusing on little tricks and techniques that were given on this website has made me a better artist and my art pieces more appealing.

This website came up when was looking for what color paints are the most relaxing for people to look at. I don't believe it is a very great site because it was almost like an advertisement for a brand of paint, but it was good for referencing to colors. It did give me a good idea of what shades of colors I may like, not that I would necessarily need that brand/ type of paint they were using for an example. I am going to look at other sites that may say why certain colors make people feel the way they do, which is something this site did not do much of. Overall, this site was okay, but not my favorite.

Some topics that were covered in this website were; How in 3000 BC wearing nail polish indicated wealth and social status. Mixed from egg whites, gelatin, beeswax and gum Arabic. (To make different shade they added rose, orchid or impatient petals.) I was very shocked to find out that in 600 BC nail polish was strictly for royalty and those who were lower class and had nail polish on they would be sentenced to the death penalty. Also went into other time periods such as the 14th century and 1500-1990's explaining the trends that went on in those times. I thought this was a very informative website and I learned a lot from it as well.

Although this site is another college rating site, I found this site to be more helpful than any of the other college rating sites I have visited. I like the layout of this website way more than the others and it also categorizes colleges which is kind of cool, (ie. hipster colleges, 50 shades of cray...ect.)