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Buy Art Prints Online

April 30, 2012

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 [...]


 

Photo Gifts For Every Occasion

December 1, 2011

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 [...]


 

Advantage of Painting with Acrylic Paint

October 13, 2011

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? – Painting Ideas

September 28, 2011
painting ideas

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. [...]


 

How I Paint Hair with Acrylics – Blonde

August 3, 2011
painting hair with acrylics

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 [...]


 

How I Paint Black Hair on Figures

August 3, 2011

This is the second tutorial on painting hair. This is a step-by-step, quick painting method I use of painting figures with black hair. The strategy is slightly different from that of blonde hair, but the method of painting in layers is the same. I start by painting the figure bald. This way, the effect of [...]


 

Professional Photography of Art Paintings To Achieve Quality Prints

June 24, 2011
Photographing Art work

After months of trying to get the best spot outdoors to photograph my paintings, I finally decided to get a professional photographer to do the job for me. With 2 dozen paintings as backlog, it was a arduous full-day job. Paying for good photography services is a good investment. From these images I can reproduce [...]


 

How To Photograph Paintings – Using Natural Light

May 15, 2011
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Sunlight is the best free source of light. It has the full spectrum of light waves visible to the human eye. It is the light waves that reflect the true colors from a painting on to the lens and the sensor of the camera, in the same way the retina in the eye receives the [...]


 

Adolphe Mouron Cassandre Art Deco Prints

April 30, 2011

Adolphe Mouron Cassandre (1901 – 1968) was an artist of commercial art deco posters. His subjects were of steamships, trains and other "masculine’ associated objects like cigarettes and wine. Framed poster prints of the artist are ideal for decorating the walls of work and living rooms for an individuals who want to create a masculine [...]


 

Turn Your Photo To Art

March 2, 2011

Turn your photo to art with print to order online photo printing services. The best results you will get with a well taken photograph. So here are some tips to create better images with your digital cammera. Image size Check the settings on your camera and set the size of the image to ‘Large’. The [...]


 

Canvas Prints of Fine Art and Photography

March 1, 2011

Canvas prints may cost more than prints on paper, but there are many advantages to them. Canvas is actually coated linen or cotton fabric with weight of 250-450gsm. The fabric is strong and flexible which means it will resist tearing, breaking or cracking. Good quality prints on canvas have archival ink, which last. Since it [...]


 

Online Photo Printing

January 1, 2011

Create personalized art prints with online photo printing sites. These are very customer friendly and fun services to use. There is much more that you can do on these sites. In addition to photo printing, it is possible to use these images to create art for art prints and photo gifts. Make the best of [...]


 

Photo Gift Puzzles make Fun Unique Gifts

January 1, 2011

Photo Gift puzzles are a new addition to the Zazzle product line. These are very interesting photo gifts to make. Make Custom Photo Gift Puzzle from Zazzle. The Jigsaw puzzles are made of sturdy cardboard stock, mounted on chipboard. The surface is easy to wipe-clean. The puzzles come in 2 variants : 8×10" Puzzle 110 [...]


 

Alfred Kubin Art Posters and Prints

December 1, 2010

Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) was Czech painter. His art style was Expressionism, the movement that was initiated by his contemporaries. Kubin’s paintings are not as famous as that of many of his contemporaries, they are noteworthy. His imagery are illustrative and may have been very much ahead of it’s time. They seem to have very much [...]


 

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