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Art Cabin is the Avalon Gallery community, it is run by artists for artists, and contains an art directory, pages for painting holidays, classes, art clubs and societies as well as news articles of interest to the art community.
I am a painter in gouache mainly of landscape and water scenery but the "Faces + 1950s Kids" projects are the result of a life long interest in people their appearance and there behaviour.
With the number of giclee printers out there increasing steadily how do you find one that will work well for you? You may think it's just a matter of sending a digital image to your chosen printers and waiting for your prints to arrive in the post, but unfortunately it isn't as simple as that.
Our experience is that getting consistently good results from a printing outlet can be very difficult indeed. Since we set up and digitise our own artwork, the setup process has not proved to be a problem, and the reproduction of the original has usually been very good, but various printers in the UK have let us down on other aspects of their service, so it's very much buyer beware, and I hope this article will help you to avoid any expensive pitfalls before they happen.
Artists Profile: - I have been painting since a child, but in 1990 went to Art College to do a Foundation in Fine Art. I have had exhibitions in 1990 in London, 2006 in Kent and my next will be in 2007.
I am an expressionist figurative painter and my main influences are the German Expressionists, Sickert, Turner and lately medieval painters. I like the absurd but also find a great pleasure from painting animals and capturing their innate dignity.
Artists Profile: - Born in Wetzlar, Germany Jutta studied English and French, at the universities of Wurzburng and Gottingen. Since 2001 she has dedicated herself to painting after completing a 2 year course in Free drawing and painting at a college in Darmstadt.
Probably every artist dreams of becoming successful enough to make a living selling their artwork. Some artists achieve fantastic success within their lifetime and become famous and well paid their work, but these people are in the minority. For many artists the dream of becoming well known and really well paid never becomes a reality and these artists make do with living on a small income, or they make money from other activities that may or may not be related to art.
Many artists are really quite bad at marketing their art and this is probably because they would prefer to spend their time creating art rather than marketing it more...
There are a small but growing number of articles which may be of interest to artists on the Art Cabin website here http://www.artcabin.co.uk and we have just finished translating them into French, German and Italian.
The translations may not be completely accurate, but we hope they are understandable.
You don't have to be a qualified teacher in order to teach, all you need is enthusiasm and a good knowledge of your subject, so given that you love what you do it should be easy for you to set up and run short workshops to teach various aspects of your art more...
Born and raised in Kenya, (East Africa), I began sketching, carving and painting from a very young age. Both my parents were born in East Africa, so our family of 5 was very much a "product of our environment", with a natural interest in the magnificent African landscape, the African people and all their interesting diversity. Not forgetting of course, the extensive wildlife more...
You can't sell your art unless people can see it. This might seem like an obvious statement but the fact is that very many artists love to create their work, and they produce one beautiful painting after another, and then stack them carefully against the wall in their studio. The canvases just mount up and many of them scarcely get to see the light of day again. This happens because so many artists are creatively immersed in their imaginative process and hardly give a thought to selling at all more...
If you have a website which is art related, for example if you are an artist, or you provide services such as giclée printing, framing, mounting, or supply art equipment, paints, paper etc. or if you run an art class, provide painting holidays, or run an art course there are categories for everyone to add their link free in the art directory.
A giclée limited edition print of a work in Acrylic on canvas, which shows remembered colours of dawn, dissipating like dreams, in the climate of tomorrow.
This piece is one of the Climate Change collection which show differing aspects of the effects of global warming on our beautiful planet.
For each piece of art work, whether original or Limited Edition print that is sold, I sponsor the Planting of a Tree in a native forest project more...
A giclée limited edition print of a work in Acrylic on canvas, the change in our climate from the greenhouse effect is predicted to bring about an increase in global sea levels, resulting in oceans lapping at new shores!
This piece is one of the Climate Change collection which show differing aspects of the effects of global warming on our beautiful planet.
For each piece of art work, whether original or Limited Edition print that is sold, I sponsor the Planting of a Tree in a native forest project more...
A giclée limited edition print of a work in Acrylic on canvas, this work illustrates the incredible cooling effect that the melting polar ice and a slowing down of the gulf stream will have on our climate and temperature.
This piece is one of the Climate Change collection which show differing aspects of the effects of global warming on our beautiful planet.
For each piece of art work, whether original or Limited Edition print that is sold, I sponsor the Planting of a Tree in a native forest project more ...
A giclée limited edition print of a work in Acrylic on canvas, portraying the raw energy of the earth's core as it breaks through the earth's crust and flows in molten rivers of fire. This piece is one of the Climate Change collection which show differing aspects of the effects of global warming on our beautiful planet.
For each piece of art work, whether original or Limited Edition print that is sold, I sponsor the Planting of a Tree in a native forest project more..
We all know how easy it is to be so absorbed in creating a piece of artwork that hours can go by without even noticing. If you've spent a lot of time hunched, twisted, or slumped over your work you know you might regret it later, when your body tells you how uncomfortable it is. Back pain is one of the commonest complaints seen in any doctor's surgery, and almost everybody will suffer from it at some time in their life. Bad posture at your desk or easel is one way of creating or worsening a back pain problem more...
Watercolour pencils are nothing like the crayons you used to use when you were at school, but for some reason people seem to think that there are a tool used mainly by leisure or amateur artists, and not by professionals. This couldn't be more wrong, in fact there are a number of professional artists who like to use watercolour pencils either by themselves or to enhance a watercolour that has been started in the traditional way more...
Daler-Rowney launched their System 3 acrylic paints in 1986 and they immediately became popular for all the reasons that are now associated with acrylic paints; such as the speed of drying, the vibrant colours and the ease of colour mixing.
Freya Forrester has just added a new work to her Avalon Gallery portfolio, a mixed media painting using Pastels and Acrylics. The original painting is called Moonstones and is of standing stones in moonlight
Masking fluid is a liquid latex that looks like a milky liquid and can be used to paint over selected areas in your picture. It's probably one of the easiest and most popular methods of masking off small areas of work to protect them from the paint. Once the masking fluid is dry it can be painted over and the pure white paper is kept safe beneath the rubbery film more...
Before you start you will need: a sheet of 190 gsm (90lb) watercolour paper, a drawing board, gummed paper tape (like Butterfly Gumstrip sealing tape which has a water-soluble adhesive), a small sponge and a bowl of cold water.
The reason you need to stretch paper is because, by its very nature, it absorbs water and then as it dries it shrinks, usually unevenly, and becomes rather unattractively cockled or wrinkled. Unless you're working very quickly the cockling can also occur during the progression of the painting and make it very difficult more...
There is such a wide range of papers suitable for use with watercolours that it can be difficult for a beginner to know which ones to choose for the best. Although it isn't an absolute rule, the papers used for transparent watercolours are usually white or almost white. This is because, in watercolour painting, some areas of the paper are left white and used for bright highlights, and also because the brightness of the paper comes through the transparency of the watercolour and lends a brilliance to the painting more...
In part one of this article we looked at how you could add extra value to your artwork by making sure that it is signed legibly, by giving it a title and by adding a short explanation or description to it. In part two we will be looking at other ways of making your artwork worth more money when you come to sell it more...
There are several things that you might not have thought of, that add extra value to your artwork and can make it worth more money when you come to sell it. I'm not talking here about reworking pieces you feel haven't come up to scratch. Yes, it is sometimes possible to rescue a less than perfect watercolour by using a pen and ink technique, and you can paint right over parts of an oil or acrylic painting to in effect completely rework the area, but here I am talking about techniques that don't involve changing your artwork in any way more...
Some artists will never accept a commission to create a piece of art for a particular person or purpose. They feel that it violates their artistic integrity and places them in a straitjacket, strangling their creativity and freedom of expression. These artists create their art because this is the way they express themselves and not because they're going to receive money for having completed it in a particular way more...
The Internet is the world's fastest-growing medium for marketing and selling online and, as millions of people worldwide are looking for web sites about art and looking to buy paintings online, it makes sense to display your artwork where all these people have a chance of finding it more...
Artists Profile: - I studied integrated product design at college then continued to study fashion with management at university. I am currently working as a visual merchandise adviser.
Painting is my favourite past-time. I like to use acrylics for all my paintings.
Artists Profile: - Colin has spent most of his life on the land, living and walking in the Dales in his youth, and farming a 420-acre hill farm later. This closeness to nature's rhythms and seasons permeated his being and enabled him to see these patterns reflected in everything in life.
His life journey has lead him in many related directions from Chinese Arts and Acupuncture - he is a fully qualified practitioner (Dip Ac), to Photography and Art. Most recently he has been involved in a range of Sculpture installations, and is at present attending a post grad course on Fine Arts in Yorkshire.
Artists Profile: - Anne lives by the sea in North West England. Her interest in art began in childhood when she sketched everything in her surroundings. After attending Art School in the 1970's she graduated from Liverpool University as a teacher of Art and taught art, crafts and design in secondary school.
Anne now paints in a variety of media including pastels, acrylics and watercolours and has an interest in developing themes involving nature, mystery and wildlife portraiture.
Artists Profile: - Freya comes originally from Norway, but moved to England with her family as a small child. Her painting career began early, winning local competitions while she was still at school.
Classically trained at Art School, Freya Forrester has experimented with many mediums and subjects. Her latest collections are based on the expression of her early memories of Norway and her interpretation of an ideal world.
Artists Profile: - Jane got her first camera at the age of eight, and has been taking photographs ever since, and is particularly interested in black and white photography.
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