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Landscape Art of Scotland's Mountains - A New Expression by Keith Salmon

Keith Salmon is one of Scotland's foremost mountain landscape artists. His work is particularly unique having evolved by inter-twining the styles of impressionism and expressionism to present a valuable personal interpretation of Scotland's mountain landscape scenery. His work must be seen

Ford Ranger Posts February Sales Gain

With just a year prior its plant closure, Ford Ranger is seeing signs of a sales rebound. Last month, Ranger sales soared 27 percent over the same month last year.

Portrait Drawing Techniques For Children - Ages 9-12

What would you think if I told you that children as young as age 9 years old can be taught how to draw realistic portraits of people? Impossible? You may think because of their age they haven't fully graduated from drawing animation characters, and using color markers, and construction paper.

If a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words - What Is Provenance Worth?

Whether attributed to an ancient Chinese proverb, Napoleon or Fred Barnard, the quote,"a picture is worth a thousand words",would even have more significance if we could establish provenance. In other words, if we had proof who actually said it, or where it originated, it is provenance tha

Testing the Cast Non-Ferrous Mechanical Properties of Metal

Mechanical properties of the metals are responsible for determining the range and worth and set up the services which could be anticipated. Mechanical properties were used to aid, specify and understand the metals. Common properties are the hardness, strength, impact resistance and the ductility.

Online Art Sales - How to Buy Quality Originals For the Price of Prints

Buying original art via online art sales and auctions can be challenging and expensive. Many casual art collectors settle for prints instead. However there are ways to buy originals for the price of prints. The article discusses some compromises that the collector may consider in order to purchase o

Different Types of Art Collage

Art collage is really a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, created from an assemblage of numerous forms, thus creating a new type of art. A collage may include newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or hand-made papers, parts of other artwork, photos as well as other discovered

Portrait Painting And The Joy Of Creating

Painting can be a beneficial and rewarding experience and the ability to paint a portrait is not so hard to achieve, even for a beginner, with a few simple tips. These are just a few techniques and tips for the beginner and hopefully will inspire you to begin to create your own masterpiece.

Malta Wedding Photos

Malta Graduation Photography makes your graduation ceremony fantastic Graduation day a grand day which everyone is waiting for and is happens once in a lifetime. Every student works day and night through the various difficulty ...

Banksy's Books

For those who do not know him, Banksy is an artist. He is anonymous and reveals himself through his art. His street paintings, which can be stunning works of art, more often than not convey satirical messages as does the social commentary he writes - on walls.

The First Materials You Need-Drawing Instruments

For drawing beginners, pencils are the tools of choice. They are simple to use, and they are also correctable. As you already know, pencils come in a variety of hardnesses. The hardest tip is indicated ...

Chicago and Art - A Break From Traditional Reality

Founded in 1833, Chicago is the third largest & most densely populated American city, and the largest one in the state of Illinois. Art in the city of Chicago, USA, is a ubiquitous phenomenon. The field here is vibrant and caters to the people of varied interests.

The Encaustic Adventure II - Bees Do It!

Encaustic uses beeswax as its basic material and although honeybees are the only creatures that make beeswax, there are a variety of waxes available for work in Encaustic painting. Waxes come in chunks or pastilles, cakes and granules, slabs and flakes. Flakes are shaved from a slab; beads are dropl

His Most Famous Painting (Tres Personajes - Three People) - Rufino Tamayo

"Tres Personajes (Three People)," a masterpiece by famous Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo, was created in the year 1970. Amongst many of his other famous creations, Rufino named it strangely different. Driven by a fantastic and powerful artistic capture, "Tres Personajes (Three People)&

Tattoo Me Now Has It All!

One of the reasons which prevent people to get a tattoo is because of the fact that it can get pretty expensive. First of all, you would have to pay for the actual job to ...

Landscape Paintings - A Distinct Genre of Painting

Landscape Painting is a distinct genre of painting that captures nature in its natural form. The paintings are reflections of the skies, seas, rivers, sun, moon and greeneries on the canvas. One of the earliest and traditional painting forms, landscape paintings touch the heart of the modern art lov

How to Paint Leaves

Flowers and leaves have been liked by many artists, and they form a major part of nature drawing. Inspiration for these paintings can be easily got from pictures and photographs of flowers and landscape scenes, and from nature itself. Though a flower painting is mostly admired by all and has univers