AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL works of ANIMAL art painted in fine detail on the HUMAN HAND. NOT my work, these pictures were emailed to me and others from unknown sources.
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Helen gives a detailed tutorial on painting a eucalyptus leaf using watercolour paints. View www.helenfitzgerald.com for a more comprehensive gallery of her botanical, wildlife and landscape paintings
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Specifically, I have a crateful of oil paintings and piles of pencil sketches and drawings. I keep the crate open and the paintings are exposed to some sunlight every day. The illustrations are filed away into shelves in shadow but as the years pass I worry about the aging of both the paper and the various leads.
Your local art supplies store will sell you an inexpensive paper called Glassine which is like a stiff tracing paper – it’s archival (acid-free) and will protect your drawings when they rub together, also as a barrier if some of the materials are not pH-neutral. If you used coloured media in the drawings, they shouldn’t fade if not exposed to sunlight, unless the pigments are so inferior that they degenerate naturally (in which case nothing will stop that process).
If you used papers which are not acid-free, they will naturally disintegrate over time, but if they’re protected as above will last your lifetime if not longer. Yes, you can buy a spray called "Make It Acid-Free" from Krylon… it’s powdered limestone. Mighty expensive, but if the drawings are that valuable you might investigate it.
The oil paintings should be fine, they should not be stored in an airtight container. However, after a prolonged period the top edges of the paintings may fade more than the bottom where no light reaches it. Perhaps just throw a cloth over it – just don’t wrap them in plastic.
And be wary of "fixative" sprays please – especially on the drawings which are being stored flat. Off-gassing may do more damage than good.
May 20 (Bloomberg) — A thief stole five paintings including works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse from the Musee dArt Moderne in Paris, French police said. The other works stolen were by Georges Braque, Fernand Leger and Amedeo Modigliani. The paintings are together worth about 100 million euros ($123 million), according to Christophe Girard, the Paris city official responsible for culture. Bloomberg’s Betty Liu and David Tweed report. (Source: Bloomberg)
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What is the procedure to sell paintings in Bangkok. How can I sell paintings in Bangkok and how to display it in the art galleries and exhibitions. How to sell them in paintings shops?
Best way to find out is looking around in the galleries and shops over there.
http://www.EclecticAsylum.com Limited Edition Prints available now.
Music “Rocking with Elvis”
by Dean Vegas
(Elvis Tribute Artist)
http://www.deanvegas.com
The Story behind the painting.
If you have watched some of my other videos you have noticed I sometimes use common objects in an artistic way. I do this because many types of art are far removed from the average person. Creating art with things people come in contact with in their daily lives closes that gap.
So the idea for this piece came from…what else…eating cheetos. My fingers turned orange and I noticed it created an accidental mark on my clothes. From there my thoughts went to fabric as a surface….poof…it made me think of velvet paintings. The Virgin of Guadalupe, Unicorns, and probably the most famous incarnation of velvet painting. The Velvet Elvis. It’s kitsch. It’s cheesy. Thus a Velvet Elvis painted with cheese puffs.
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I paint in oils, I know my paintings are good and it takes me a good deal of time just to finish one. I want to sell them at prices that will reflect the work that I have put into to each painting. I love painting so I am kind of attatched to each one. Does anyone out there have experience in selling their paintings? I will probably sell the first ones without frames, but eventually I will make my frames too. So with and without frames can you help me with prices?
Give us a link to your paintings and let us judge. It does not matter how long it takes you, but how good are they.
I am collecting paintings/prints of all the places i have travelled and framing them for my house. Some places I visited I wasnt able to find paintings. I dont know how i can now get them at home. They are sold in most souvenir shops in each country but i need to know if there is anywhere in Australia or on the net? They are only around 25 cm * 30cm in size and arent very expensive (not by well known artists) I have tried ebay etc.
These are the places i need:
Dublin, Edinburgh, Manchester, Vigo – Spain, Singapore, Taipei, Hunan – China, Stuttgart – Germany, Los Angeles, Marseille – France.
I would be so so thankful if anyone could help me out.
Thanks!
Try finding the Tourist information sites for each of those places, they should be able to put you in touch with souvenir suppliers.
Alternatively look in e-bay
For art class, our assignment is to pick two different paintings from two different styles and time periods and then combine them in one painting. I’m having a hard time picking two that would fit together and was wondering if anyone had any ideas they could give me.
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/L/leonardo/monalisa.jpg.html
http://www.hln-store.com/servlet/Detail?no=244
davinci and picasso( study in women)
Please rank only famous paintings, but in order from most awesome to fifth-most-awesome.
Best answer will list five paintings I recognize by name, and which I most agree about how awesome they are. Feel free to persuade me as to why your favorite paintings are more awesome.
1- Gerhard Richter’s candle series. So real that you can hardly believe its a painting. So cool that Sonic Youth made a cover out of one.
2- Caravaggio’s St. Matthew works in San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome. The Martyrdom is particularly wicked, but the image of his calling is more subtle and more highly regarded.
3- Manet’s Olympia at the Orsay. She’s nude, she’s proud, she know what she wants, and she’s for sale. Scandalous in the 19th century, but now she’s just a proud, self-actualized young woman.
4- Miro’s Blue series at the Pompidou. These pretty much blow the doors off of any American AbEx. Miro is better known for his smaller scale monsters and surrealism, but these giants push in a way that even Clyfford Still can’t touch.
5- Vermeer’s Little Street at the Rijksmuseum. This painting has darn near perfect symmetry (windows of diminishing size, edge of house in the middle of the canvas, whites of clouds paired with whites on building, push and pull of foregrounded brick building and backgrounded distant sky) but there’s still a dynamism in it. It’s got a strong diagonal running from low left to high right with roof silhouettes to reinforce it. The content of an otherwise banal street scene invites you to peer into the lives of the inhabitants. Its one of those works that demonstrates why all art, even bad art, always deserves many viewings.