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16th February 2011

Serious Artists Study To Get Paid

The room is filled with soft blues and scratching sounds. Seventeen artists in a circle transform their canvasses into a single subject, using pencils, pastels, and paint. The subject is a dance instructor dressed in workout clothes, sitting in the middle...

16th February 2011

something you should know about oil painting reproductions

Many people Like discussing art with friends and family. It is a good topic when guests visit the home, especially for famous and popular oil paintings, such as Van Gogh paintings, Monet paintings and so on. Although most of us can not afford the orig...

15th February 2011

Traditional Canvas Artists: A Slice of Real Art

Traditional canvas art is considered to be the only form of real art by many of the more conservative experts that are out there today. Although traditional art is starting to take a major back seat to modern canvas artists, with a particular emphasis on ...

09th February 2011

Weigh the Pros and Cons of Buying Oil Painting Online

It is just typical for people to find it hard to put their confidence on an idea that still leaves them hanging with some uncertainties. However, most of the time letting go of the opportunities that come the way becomes a reason for us to deal with regre...

03rd February 2011

Learn oil painting – the basics of choosing paint

when painting with oil paints, it is wise to learn the various aspects of oil paintings. Oil paints dry very slowly and it is very easy to correct mistakes or change direction of your painting. Three types of oil paint, and is semi-transparent clear and ...

24th January 2011

Tips on choosing right art for home

Decorating home is an art, and everyone who interested in living in a clean, tidy and stylish home should learn to use the art of decorating home in correct way. Nowadays, we have many many choice and ideas to stylize our home, however, I think th...

20th January 2011

Impressionist Movement and Monet

What is good painting? This may be quite debatable. Impressional paintings now are accepted by people and there are lots of good impressional paintings, but actually impressional paintings was not considered to be good painting in 19th century. Th...

20th January 2011

The Life and Paintings of the famous American Artist Albert Bierstadt

Albert Bierstadt was born on 7th January 1830 in Germany. Later on his family migrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts in the year 1833. He had a natural flair for painting. He began, while young, with crayon works. He began oil paintings in the 1850s. Duss...

19th January 2011

The main elements to create oil paintings

Oil paintings are very popular in the art business. Most people who venture into the paint often choose oils for different reasons. When it comes to paintings, there are some elements to take into account. Color is the main element because is the most out...

17th January 2011

The best alternative to the original artworks

Fine artwork is uncommon and expensive; not all of us can obtain artworks by the masters, due to this, people nowadays have find out methods to reproduce these artworks with as much dexterity as possible, but the price is much lower. In a stricter ...

13th January 2011

Creating A Portrait For The President's Horse

You should be careful with giving someone a present. A waiting period is usually inevitable before you notice the person liking the gift or not. If the gift was addressed to the president then there would be more weight on your shoulders. She has her gift...

07th January 2011

Top 3 Hotels near the Phoenix Theatre London

The Phoenix Theatre is located on Charing Cross Road, equidistant from the bright lights and bustling atmosphere of Leicester Square, and the large department stores and rows of stores by Tottenham Court Road which is at the end of the famed Oxford Street...

27th December 2010

Portraits and an Artist Working with Still Life

When a female artist was a child back then, she loved drawing horses as much as she loved riding them. She has many years of experience as an artist and early training that eventually led her to a career involving painting horses and other subjects of the...

27th December 2010

Still Life Passion

When a female artist was a child back then, she loved drawing horses as much as she loved riding them. What her career involves is painting horses and other subjects of the natural world and this is all thanks to her early training and many years of exper...

21st December 2010

Why is Oil on Canvas Popular?

Oil is probably the most popular medium used by all painters. The world’s famous paintings Sunflower (Van Gogh), Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) and Impressions Sunrise (Monet), are all painted with oils. These drying oils, typically made from lins...

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