the therapeutic value of kids’ artistic activities has always attracted experts and medics’ attention. it has a lot of usages in obtaining peace of mind and health in children. art therapy is a new and organized way in solving social and mental problems and disorders that can lead to improvement, especially in children. school anxiety can be seen and reduced, in artistic activities, as a sign o...

Commercially available controls for reducing worker exposure to paint overspray were evaluated in six autobody shops and a spray-painting equipment manufacturer's test facility. Engineering control measures included spray-painting booths, vehicle preparation stations, and spray-painting guns. The controls were evaluated by measuring particulate overspray concentrations in the worker's breathing...

Research for creating impressive images like paintings has attained more and more importance because of the recent growth in processing images. Among many painting styles, watercolor style gives a strong impression because of its thin colors and its soft appearance. This paper proposes a method to create watercolor style images from input images, for instance photographs. In contrast with the p...

Tina Primer, an artist based in Illinois, provided the cover art for Spring 2023 issue of The Open Journal Occupational Therapy (OJOT). “Wriggly” is 11” x 14” painting made from acrylic on stretched canvas. After a debilitating stroke, began using as therapy. When strength her dominant hand did not return, pet portraits motivation to do things differently. Tina’s playful use color and attention...

The therapeutic value of kids’ artistic activities has always attracted experts and medics’ attention. It has a lot of usages in obtaining peace of mind and health in children. Art therapy is a new and organized way in solving social and mental problems and disorders that can lead to improvement, especially in children. School anxiety can be seen and reduced, in artistic activities, as a sign o...

This paper describes our methods for repairing and restoring images of hidden paintings (paintings that have been painted over and are now covered by a new surface painting) that have been obtained via noninvasive X-ray fluorescence imaging of their canvases. This recently developed imaging technique measures the concentrations of various chemical elements at each two-dimensional spatial locati...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of art therapy to control fatigue in cancer patients during course of radiotherapy and its impact on quality of life (QoL). MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty cancer patients receiving radiotherapy received weekly art therapy sessions using famous painting appreciation. Fatigue and QoL were assessed using the Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI...

In the paper, we present a new method of converting a photo image to a synthesized painting image following the painting style of an example painting image.The proposed method uses a hierarchical and adaptive patch-based approach to both the synthesis of painting styles and preservation of scene details. This approach can be summarized as follows.The input photo image is represented as a set of...

the purpose of this article is to investigate the differences between men and women’s painting regardless of being limited to presuppositions about masculine and feminine art. therefore, first the appearance of differences between men and women art during the eighteenth and nineteenth century is considered. having done that, various types of women’s painting, feminine painting and feminism pain...