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How to Work With a Portrait Painting Artist

It can be a scary and intimidating idea -- to work with a portrait artist to create a painting that is beautiful and meaningful to you -- but it doesn't have to be that way! Here are a few tips to make the process of having a custom portrait commissioned be a FUN and REWARDING experience that y

Must I Market My Art?

What can you do with paintings kept inside your storeroom? We paint since it's a way of life. It's a means of communicating and challenging the average. We do it like we take a shower on a daily basis. It's just the thing we do.

Advantages of Professional Canvas Printing

You want to use canvas prints in your home welcoming party and are short of time then without wasting time go for professionals. They always deliver the order on time which saves the customer from all kinds of problems.

Get the Most Effective Face Painting Melbourne

In all the countries, the expenditure on entertainment is increasing on a rapid rate. Similarly, in Melbourne the expenditure on entertainment is also increasing on a rapid rate. There are many different kinds of functions ...

Still Time to Catch Some of the Summer's Best European Arts Festivals

Europe is well known for its festival. It is a place where all large and small festivals take place. Art Organisers also organise many art exhibitions, festival and workshops. This article shares some information on the summer's best European Arts Festivals.

Are We Witnessing the End of Fine-Art Printmaking?

The article articulates concern about the abundant--and fraudulent--offerings of digital copies of works of art ("giclees") as "fine-art prints." Giclee copies are mere reproductions copied on high-end inkjet printers,while fine-art prints are original artist-created serial art f

Sunnyvale School of Music

Prenatal Music and Language Education Trio, Sunnyvale School of Music, Dance and Languages, has started to offer a very special program to expecting parents, Prenatal Music and Language, or €Mom, Dad & Me€. The goal ...

The Morbid, Dutch, Renaissance Artist - Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch was a renowned Dutch painter of fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. His real name was Jheronimus (or Jeroen) Anthonissen van Aken and El Bosco in Spanish. Hieronymus Bosch was born sometime around 1450 in a family of artists & artisans, and therefore, grew up learning several art ski

12 Tips To Grab Galleries With Your Artist Website

Serious about winning the attention of a good art gallery or dealer? If so, you need to understand the core common elements that successful art gallery directors and art sales people look for when they ...

What Is the Importance of FSDUs?

FSDUs or Free Standing Display Units are a very effective retail display solution which can help drive sales even in the harshest of economic times, calling products to the attention of the public very effectively. FSDUs are worked with in a wide range of materials including card, corrugated board,

Family Portraits You'll Want To Come Together For

Harsh lights. A cramped studio. Unnatural backdrops. Uncomfortable clothing. Unnatural poses. If you have ever had a family portrait done in a conventional indoor studio before, you'll have a pretty good idea of the environment ...

Colour in Visual Art

How and why does a particular colour make us react in a certain way to a painting? Colour is the most powerful instrument in visual art; artists exploit the capacity of colour to arouse emotions in the viewer and as a powerful means of visual communication.

Holiday Window Painting - Make It a Perennial Money Maker

Perhaps you have seen the holiday window paintings during the Christmas and holiday retail season on the store fronts of merchants and big box stores? As you know those paintings do not paint themselves. Currently there are no robotic holiday window painting machines, in the future there may be, but

Learn Drawing - 3 Ways to Hold Your Pencil

There are almost as many ways to hold a pencil for drawing as there are artists using one. However, let's take a look at three of the more useful ways to hold your pencil for drawing and what the differences are.

Things To Understand Regarding Mixed Media

What we know today as mixed media art began in early 20th century, when artists looking for an alternative to what they saw as hidebound academicism began including items and images which were in no way considered to be artwork resources in their works. Samples of everyday materials being included i