Many online fine art printing sites to buy art prints are available to us, and there are more companies setting up. The bigger established online shops provide a huge portfolio of images that covers a wide range of subject categories. Famous paintings are the evergreen favorite. Other genre of art styles are also getting more [...]
Motivational posters are all the rage. For one, they make great grifts and are inspiring. Inspirational messages are added to engage the viewer and remind us of the positive side to life. The paintings inject an image of positivity. With the use of a neutral black background to frame the images the colors stand out, [...]
Photo gifts are about the best kind of presents for every season. They are meaningful and yet relatively low priced and also fun to make. Nothing is more precious than to recieve gifts with pictures taken from memorable moments, loved ones or even self created photographic art. Now with print-on-demand technology, creating these personalized unique [...]
You Needed Me… “You gave me strength to stand alone again To face the world out on my own again You put me high upon a pedestal So high that I could almost see eternity You needed me, you needed me” … Lyrics You Needed Me by Ann Murray. Painting of Jesus and Mary Magdalene [...]
Spice Girls – The song “Viva Forever” brings you to a fairyland of sparkles and fairies. Platinum blonde waif -figured angels appear from back-lit background, with hair glowing like a halo and their bodies veiled in translucent robes. “Yes I still remember, Every whispered word The touch of your skin, giving life from within Like [...]
Meditation in the clouds, a Buddhism – inspired painting of a silent moment of prayer and rest. The human figure is set centrally in the composition to denote and give the feeling of stillness. The clouds are floating, suspended, but their strokes are noisy dynamic. The figure is not perturbed, but remains levitating with them.
This is a new Angel Painting, “Bedazzled”. More whimsical type of angel. She is platinum blonde, pale-white, almost translucent skin in white dress. Sparkly halo of white surrounds her, since her figure is subject to back-lighting. The rest of her universe is pythalo blue. “Bedazzled” Acrylics On Canvas 120cm x 90 cm Click on above [...]
Angel painting by Nik helbig “Drifting 01″ Acrylic on canvas 100cm x 120cm Painting of woman and angel drifting to sleep. Canvas prints for this painting is available at the site… Click on image below:
Comparing the types of paints available, there are 3 main advantages of acrylic paints to oil paints and watercolors. Acrylics is the most versatile of paints for fine art. There are many attributes of acrylic paints that make it my choice of paint. 1. Varied Viscosity and Textures Acrylics can be purchased with different levels [...]
What do I Paint Today?? That is probably the most frequent question artists ask themselves on a daily basis. Painting ideas can elusive. And it has as much to do about luck as it is about creativity. The artistic mind is like a camera which records imaginary images and stores the pixels in the subconscious. [...]
Don’t Stop The Party… THE party song of 2011 by the Black Eyed Peas… is probably the best advice for us today, considering the bleak, almost scary economic situation and impending inflation. We have to keep the party going, keep spirits up and keep shopping… for things that appreciate in value… assets, comodity, real estate… [...]
This Eurythmics song, “Angel” I heard on the radio recently. This angel art painting had me thinking of this song.I don’t remember when I last heard it, but like all good tunes, they wake up your senses and transport you to a world and time when you first heard and loved this song. Annie Lennox, [...]
Motivational Posters of paintings by Nik Helbig are available here.
Love and Hymns often have the same meaning. This is a dance pose that actually records the split second in time when couples look into each others’ eyes doing a rock & roll dance move. The move in itself is short, but the frozen moment and back light, almost misty, enhances the feeling of passion [...]
A Lover’s ballet. Expressions of romance in graceful movement of figures in a ballet captured in a back-lit stage with darkness in the background. Lover’s Ballet in the Dark 01 Acrylics on Canvas 80cmx120cm
Liebesträume in German means Dreams of Love. I was listening to Lang Lang’s version of this famous piece, Liebesträume III by Franz Liszt. It is the most magnificent version I have heard recently, full of passion and delicate as well. Romance is not always drama and can flow like an appegio. Liebesträume Erotic Couple Painting [...]
Another painting to the Love Ballet series of figures. This painting was 2 years in the making. I was hesitating on the size and the execution of it, I guess. So I figured to place an ultramarine background with back-lighting. Lover’s Ballet Painting of Passion Acrylics on Canvas 80 x 120cm
“I’m loving angels instead…” the words of Robbie William’s brilliant song, Angels. Painting a male angel with a human lover, a refreshing change from the norm. The figures of the couple is left nude, the white wings of the angel provide the drapery. Purple and Cobalt make the background, and this makes for a pastel [...]
Something a little different from my usual stuff. Impromptu cat painting with borrowed oils while visiting my in-laws in April this year. Middle of the year I was busy painting a series of ACEO called “Plethora Of Cats”. This one is different cos of its medium and size of 100cm x 70cm. Close Up: Buy [...]
I tend to paint most of my male figures a kind of platinum blonde. My painting style is a lot more simple than, let’s say a realistic portrait painter’s. Hence one might be surprised to see that the strokes are swift and rather simple. In creating the ‘dynamic’ and free-spirited effect, strokes of hair and [...]
