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Jean-Honore Fragonard - French Painter - 'The Rococo Style

Jean-Honore Fragonard was one of the most celebrated French painters & printmakers of the eighteenth Century. His works were set in the 'Rococo' style of painting, centered on the luxurious, aristocratic life, rather than that of self-righteous martyrs and heroes. Jean was born on April 5,

Understanding Architects With Architectural Photography

Architectural photography is an art that depicts different facets of a facility that could be a home, office, departmental store any other edifice. These photos are taken without any preparation. The pictures tell the true ...

In Search of Artwork Hosting Websites

As I was searching for a website to host my photos and paintings that would also market, reproduce, ship, and collect payment for the items. I had no idea that there were so many to ...

Oil Painting Techniques That Will Help You

Painting with oils is one the most popular kinds of art forms. The techniques that you need to use for oil paints are to help you in maintaining consistency and to help you gain certain effects in your painting that can only come using oil paints.

Introduction to Offset Printing - Rolling Back the Cylinders

I would like to take this opportunity to familiarize you with a less common phrase in offset printing: "rolling back the cylinders." While moderately technical, this is a phrase all printing sales reps as well as print buyers should be acquainted with.Rolling back the cylinders on a press

Mona Lisa Print

Mona Lisa prints make great additions to any home, and this article discusses the merits of Leonardo Da Vinci's classic oil painting, Mona Lisa. Many enjoy this traditional work as both a giclee art print but also as tapestries, stretched canvases and framed paintings. Despite it's old fas

How To Make A Xylophone

If You Want To Learn How To Make A Xylophone, Then This Article Is Definitely For You, As It States My Personal And Child Hood Experience With The Making Of Xylophones, It Also Tells You Recommended X

Buying Watercolor Paint Supplies

If you are an artist of any kind, watercolor painting, oil painting or what ever artist you will want your workplace or studio filled with all the art supplies that you need so when ever an artistic idea pops up you can put it to work right away without having to run out of any art supplies. Most pr

What Qualities Should a Mixtape Designer Have?

Making your own music can be quite difficult, but if you are passionate about what you do, nothing will seem impossible. However, after you are done with all your songs, and your compilation is ready to hit the streets, you will notice that there is just one problem you have not thought about: who i

Where to Study Graphic Design

If you have a knack for coming up with excellent ideas for adverts and you have a talent for drawing and creating promotional materials and brilliant images then you should think about studying graphic design. There are lots of graphic design schools all over the world, and these will hone your skil

How to Capture Family Photographs

Get together with family in the same place at the same time can be hard enough. But trying to organize them into a consistent group for their photograph to be taken and it can be ...

Stone Lithography I - Alois Senefelder

While visual media are quite diverse, one of the most important turning points came with the invention of the printing press.A true revolutionary creation, it opened up a whole new medium in the form of relief prints. For the first time, an artist was able to carve an image onto wooden or metal bloc

Mesmerizing Cleo

The article is related to the painter, Clementina Cote. The article describes in detail her work and the impression she has on people.

Nighthawks Print

Nighthawks is a famous Edward Hopper oil painting which makes a great choice as print for art followers who are looking to add his stylish American art to their own walls. This article discusses the Nighthawks painting, underlines where it fits into the career of Edward Hopper and also concludes wit

What is Digital 3D Space?

An important idea behind perspective is that every shape and object depicted on the projection plane sends a "ray" to the viewpoint, or our eye. Computer 3D applications rely heavily on this concept through a process called ray tracing. Imagine that all objects in a scene emit these theore

Knowing The Frustration of Being An Artist

We've all heard about the artists' world having so many ups and downs. It's not just in the world of shows, acceptances and rejections or selling a painting or not, it's also in the emotions of making of our art. We have good days and bad days in creating.