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		<title>The Niche Market of Celebrity Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people who collect celebrity art are interested in starting small businesses concern in accordance with a specific niche. The niche market of celebrity art is a great way to preserve history and keep track of your favorite celebrity. This market includes the work of various actors, musicians, singers and athletes, who have taken time [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many people who collect celebrity art are interested in starting small businesses concern in accordance with a specific niche. The niche market of celebrity art is a great way to preserve history and keep track of your favorite celebrity. This market includes the work of various actors, musicians, singers and athletes, who have taken time to create celebrity art photographs, paintings and drawings. Celebrity artists such as John Lennon, Jerry Garcia and Paul McCartney as well as many different artists have created tons of outstanding works.</p>
<p>When collecting these works of art it is very important that you check to see if this celebrity art is authentic. You can also find the works of celebrity in some of the largest celebrity art collections in the world. Many of these art collections have the works of people such as James Dean and Frank Sinatra, who even though they are busy entertaining the world still find enough time to create works of art that show just how creative some celebrities are.</p>
<p>Many celebrities have made a ton of money in the niche market of art sales making as much as $50,000 on a painting or a piece of sculpture. Others have found their niche doing work in various genres of contemporary and mainstream celebrity art genre. In some cases, art in this niche can be found at auctions, by people who take celebrity famous art seriously. These celebrity auctions as well as galleries in places like Las Vegas, Hawaii, New York, and Beverly Hills where celebrities live. In addition, some celebrities in a stance of goodwill may also send autographed photographs for free when they sell a piece of their artwork.</p>
<p>Buying celebrity art online can be done through one of the many art stores that have an online gallery or through auction sites. Artists such as Peter Falk or Marilyn Manson have art being sold at online auction. Some charity auctions are also places where celebrity art can be found. In this niche many collectors are looking for high quality, autographed celebrity art to sell to their clientele or to keep in their private collections. The celebrity art that collectors have is usually authenticated and signed by the celebrity, they ensure the quality and the originality of these pieces. You can buy these products to create your celebrity collection and be able to share them with the world by showing them in a gallery or selling them online.</p>
<p>Another thing you can do in this niche is to organize a celebrity charity auction using these pieces of art so that you can raise money for children or for people needed surgical procedures done. With the money earned by this money, people will get the help that they need and many times the celebrity themselves in an effort to help will come to the gathering in order to lend support to the validity of your art and to help raise the funds. If you are into celebrity art, you can find many different ways to use them to make money and many ways to collect them for your own collection.</p>
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		<title>Design Tattoos &#8211; The Beauty of Body Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred Peters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once reserved for bikers and promiscuous women, tattoos are now found on millions of people &#8211; regular folks like you and me. Getting a tattoo is almost becoming commonplace, and it has opened a whole new field of employment, as well. If you are the artistic type, you may want to consider the possibility of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Once reserved for bikers and promiscuous women, tattoos are now found on millions of people &#8211; regular folks like you and me. Getting a tattoo is almost becoming commonplace, and it has opened a whole new field of employment, as well. If you are the artistic type, you may want to consider the possibility of learning how to design tattoos. Many people consider their tattoo a work of art, and many tattoo artists are reaping the financial and emotional rewards of having living canvasses. In recent studies, people who design tattoos report a very high satisfaction rate with their chosen profession, and a good tattoo designer is worth his weight in gold to any tattoo parlor.</p>
<p>How do you learn to design tattoos? You should start with paper and pencil as early as you possibly can. When you are in school, take art classes and practice drawing as much as possible. If you have a love of art and a talent for creating beauty on paper, you may be just the person someone needs to design tattoos. If you have already gone through school and have a flair for art, you too can learn to design tattoos. Contact a local community college for classes in art or even in tattoo art specifically. They are becoming increasingly more common. Check out some books and websites devoted to the art of tattoo design. Go to a local tattooist and ask about the possibility of submitting some of your work or learning under his tutelage. You never know, maybe you were meant to have your art walking around every day. Maybe you were meant to design tattoos.</p>
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		<title>Finding Celebrity Art in Galleries</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred Peters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of different forms of celebrity art that you could find throughout the world. There are forms of art about celebrities that everyone may recognize, painting the person in a new light for us to contemplate. They may take the iconic images of these celebrities and use that to make a statement [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are a number of different forms of celebrity art that you could find throughout the world. There are forms of art about celebrities that everyone may recognize, painting the person in a new light for us to contemplate. They may take the iconic images of these celebrities and use that to make a statement about the world, pop culture, or the celebrity themselves. By the same token, there are pieces of celebrity art which were actually made by celebrities. Many different types of celebrities like to branch out and explore more terrain than the one that they are known for and these pieces, like their other forms of work, can also be quite good. At the same time, artists themselves can actually hold a status of celebrity, making everything that they do a form of celebrity art.</p>
<p>Galleries are one of the most common places to display these pieces of art. Often, shows will be put on in a gallery which can either display the entire collection of one artist or take some pieces from many different artists and show them all. When one of these shows are exhibited where many different artists participate, they will generally follow a certain theme in all of the work that they present. This theme could follow a certain celebrity, such as commemorating the glamor of the 1950s movie stars.</p>
<p>One feature of galleries, which cannot be found in a museum, is that most pieces featured are in fact for sale. This allows anyone to find a piece that they particularly fall in love with and to purchase it. This can be a great investment, having a work either about or by a certain celebrity who your collection of other pieces of memorabilia just happens to be about. Indeed, these pieces are usually even autographed by the artist, giving you a great piece of autographed art to add into your collection. Not only can you potentially find a piece to fill your collection, but you may be making an investment for the future. No one knows how valuable that particular piece of art may be in 20 years.</p>
<p>Galleries will not always feature only new art, though. Sometimes the owners of a piece can put some art on display for the world. These can be pieces by famous celebrity artists that are part of a private collection that the owner still decides to display for the world. Many times, there pieces will have a price tag on them as well, allowing one to find a rare piece to add to the collection. If you are looking for some interesting, compelling pieces of celebrity autographed art, one additional place to take your search would be through many different art galleries.</p>
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		<title>Know More About Digital Art Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are interested in pursuing a course in digital art from a digital arts engineering college, you need to know more about what digital art school is all about. Digital art school is generally the place where you will be trained in the use of computer to create art in digital form. It is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are interested in pursuing a course in digital art from a digital arts engineering college, you need to know more about what digital art school is all about. Digital art school is generally the place where you will be trained in the use of computer to create art in digital form. It is more of contemporary art using the methods of digital media and mass production. The use of digital technology on art has also brought new art forms such as digital installation art, net art, and virtual reality.</p>
<p>Digital installation art is the use of three-dimensional works to transform perception of a particular space. Installation artworks have been constructed in galleries and museums and in other places. This style incorporates a wide range of materials like new media (sound, video, performance, virtual reality) and internet. Many of the installations are designed to exist only on the space created.</p>
<p>Net art is the use of the internet as the platform in which to create art. The artists who apply this are called net artists. This form of art is most often participatory, interactive and multimedia based. However, it does not refer to art that has been uploaded to be viewable on the internet. It purely relies on the internet for it to exist. Virtual reality is a simulation technology that allows interaction between the user and the computer-simulated environment whether real or imaginary. The visual experiences are displayed on computer screen or on stereoscopic displays. It also includes the Additional information such as sound through speakers, etc.</p>
<p>This art field includes digital photography, computer graphics, and computer assisted painting. All these are very interesting field to pursue in a digital art school. You can enroll to the digital arts engineering college for all this and much more. Digital arts engineering college prepares the student to an exciting career as a digital artist.</p>
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		<title>How To Find Quality, Oil Paintings Wholesaler</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are an art fan, you must buy Oil paintings wholesaler. The main objective to acquire paintings is decorating and then collection. Be a painter is a hard decision, but if you consider paint as a career, your choice won’t be difficult. It’s time to discover some secrets to get professional results in your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are an art fan, you must buy Oil paintings wholesaler. The main objective to acquire paintings is decorating and then collection. Be a painter is a hard decision, but if you consider paint as a career, your choice won’t be difficult.</p>
<p>It’s time to discover some secrets to get professional results in your paintings as Oil paintings wholesaler. Avoid using ivory black for sketching because it dries much slower than other oil paints. Avoid using linseed oil as a medium in blues and whites because it has a clear tendency to yellow, which is most notable with light colors. Don’t dry your oil paintings in the dark. This might cause a yellow thin film of oil to rise to the surface.</p>
<p>Paint is an art that had evolved with the years. More techniques, good materials, extreme information can be easy your can make easier your entry to this fascinating world. Now, let’s talk about Anders Zorn, another prominent painter.</p>
<p>Anders Leonard Zorn (February 1860 &#8211; August 1920) was a Swedish painter, sculptor and printmaker in etching. Zorn owes its notoriety especially to his portraits, both of Parisian high society, as the Swedish royal family or several presidents of the United States of America. Also notable are his famous nudes made in Sweden and his artworks, which showed a great ability, principally the engravings executed with a technique that shows his great handling of the drawing.</p>
<p>These artworks are part of his famous collection: Castles in the Air (1885), The Port of Hamburg (1891), After the Bath (1895), Midsummer Dance (1897), Freja (1901), A Musical Family (1905), Girls from Dalarna Having a Bath (1906), Self-portrait in red (1915), Home Tunes (1920).</p>
<p>You can find excellent reproductions of these works in Oil paintings wholesaler.</p>
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		<title>What Is A Great Landscape Painting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A landscape painting should make you feel like you are in a deep space. When viewing it you should feel as though you were right inside the painting. It should be both spellbinding and beautiful. To attain this, there are some tricks to it. The first trick is to use clarity. An example of this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A landscape painting should make you feel like you are in a deep space. When viewing it you should feel as though you were right inside the painting. It should be both spellbinding and beautiful. To attain this, there are some tricks to it. The first trick is to use clarity. An example of this is to show a thick fog over some hills in the distance, and have the fog fade as you get to the hills towards the front. A second trick is to use a winding path, such as a trail, a creek, or a river. This makes people feel as though they are deep within the painting. A third trick is to use size to your advantage. A tree up close should be large, while a tree far away should be small. This enhances the viewer&#8217;s feel of the distance and expanse of the landscape.</p>
<p>One thing you have to remember about a landscape painting is that it doesn&#8217;t have to show exactly everything you see. If you don&#8217;t want to paint every tree you see, then don&#8217;t. If you want to put a bird in the sky, then put a bird in the sky. If you don&#8217;t like the color of some flowers, then feel free to change the color to one you approve of. If you don&#8217;t like to include the people you see in the landscape, then take them out. If you want to change the color of the sky from a grey evening to a dark evening, then change away. Use your imagination and do as you will. It is all up to you. Your goal with the landscape painting is to dramatically capture the feel of the landscape, not to show everything in it. If a landscape painting was supposed to be an exact duplicate it would be called a photograph, not a painting.</p>
<p>A great landscape painting will enhance your artist capabilities. It can also help you make some extra pocket change being how popular these paintings are. Anyone would want a beautiful landscape painting to compliment there home or office. With all of these tips and tricks in mind, you should be on your way to creating a masterful landscape painting. Perhaps one day you can be a world renowned landscape artist!</p>
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		<title>Techniques To Try On Your Next Watercolor Painting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Washing” is a technique commonly used with watercolors. You start by wetting the area of the paper that will be covered with the wash. Then mix up enough pigment to fill the area and apply the pigment starting at the top and overlapping on any horizontal bands. The wash is then left to dry. Don’t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Washing” is a technique commonly used with watercolors. You start by wetting the area of the paper that will be covered with the wash. Then mix up enough pigment to fill the area and apply the pigment starting at the top and overlapping on any horizontal bands. The wash is then left to dry. Don’t work it as it will even itself out as it dries. The technique called “dropping in color” is a process where an additional color is added to a wet area of the painting which is then allowed to naturally bleed without any interference by the artist. The results are unpredictable with interesting color gradations.</p>
<p>“Glazing” is a technique similar to a wash, but instead of application to a wet surface a thin layer of pigment is applied to a dry surface over washes that already exist. It is used to adjust tone and color on a wash, and it is applied in layers until the desired affect is reached. Just be sure that each layer is dry before applying the next layer. Auroline, cobalt blue and permanent rose are good transparent pigments to glaze with.</p>
<p>The “wet in wet” is a technique where you fill your brush with a very wet pigment that is then applied to a wet paper. It can be applied on top of existing washes that have dried. Just dampen these areas with a large brush. This technique provides soft subtle marks that are great for background areas. The “dry brush” is opposite to the “wet in wet” technique. The brush is filled with pigment with the use of minimal water and then it is dragged across the dry paper, producing a very crisp mark with a hard edge. It is an excellent technique for front work and points of interest.</p>
<p>“Lifting off” is an interesting technique where the pigment is dissolved and lifted off after it has dried. Just wet the area you want to lift and then use a tissue to blot the pigment off. Reds, yellows, and blues can be more difficult to lift. Watercolor painting is an interesting form of artistic expression and it’s a common choice for beginning artists. </p>
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		<title>Advantages of Oil Paints and Painting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Stewards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Painting artists have been using oil paints for hundreds of years. Actually, they have been seen from as early as 13th century in England, where they used oil paints for simple decoration. In the early years, however, many artists preferred to use paints called tempera instead on using oil paints as they were able to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Painting artists have been using oil paints for hundreds of years. Actually, they have been seen from as early as 13th century in England, where they used oil paints for simple decoration. In the early years, however, many artists preferred to use paints called tempera instead on using oil paints as they were able to dry faster than oil paint. In the 15th century, Flemish artists came up with the idea of mixing oil paint and tempera. Nevertheless, it was not until the 17th century that pure oil paints became a more usual art medium.</p>
<p>Oil painting dries slowly than any other forms of paint because they are made of small particles of pigments that are balanced in a drying oil. While some of the artists might find this slow drying quality troublesome, most artists believe oil paints to be a required type of art media that must be taught to every art student. This is partly because of the many oil painting reproduction, which have been developed using oil paints.</p>
<p>There are several advantages of using oil paints, aside from its robust quality. Oil paints could as well be left open for a long duration. In fact, oil paints could regularly be left opened to air for up to several weeks without drying. This characteristic makes it possible for an artist to work on a painting over different sessions with no fear of the painting drying up too early. Of course, this attribute could be seemed at as a disadvantage by some artists, because it takes few weeks for the project to be completed and the slow drying process could make it difficult to move on to the next stage of the project.</p>
<p>Oil paints are as well outstanding for blending with surrounding paint. When blended on canvas, oil paints are able of creating artistic brush strokes and other blends, which are not possible with other forms of paint. For some artists, though, this advantage to oil paints could be viewed as a disadvantage, as it is possible to by chance blend colors while painting that were not meant to be blended.</p>
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		<title>Knowledge About Figurative Oil Paintings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now oil painting is essentially a medium that uses a pigment processed through the drying medium of oil. More generally it uses canvas as a surface. In fact canvas and oil are the most celebrated surface and medium in the world. Oil paintings thrive on using canvas made from linen or cotton and the modern [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now oil painting is essentially a medium that uses a pigment processed through the drying medium of oil. More generally it uses canvas as a surface. In fact canvas and oil are the most celebrated surface and medium in the world. Oil paintings thrive on using canvas made from linen or cotton and the modern painters unlike painters from the past use the texture of the canvas to contrast the oil paint.</p>
<p>Figurative oil paintings are a more modern representation of the art form. It uses figures as an expression of human emotions. The contours are given a wide range through the use of oil. In fact, figurative oil paintings are many layered. The under layering is done through turpentine oil. Figurative oil paintings use the innate expression of human form to come with the right kind of emotional mix.</p>
<p>Canvas used for such paintings are coated with primer. This is because cotton tends to stretch a lot in natural forms thus stretching the contours of the figure. Nude and semi-nude portraits rely heavily on proportion. In the event of undue stretching, the figures get distorted. Most of the original figurative oil paintings are supplied mounted on a non-reflective glass. Artworks can be framed or unframed depending upon the needs established by a painter’s work.</p>
<p>Figurative oil paintings have been a rage. The work of oil on canvas through bold strokes from a hog’s bristle and soft strokes from miniver usually helps in putting acute symmetry in place. This helps a painting attain just the right kind of spirit. Figurative oil painting is a niche genre that has been established relatively late on the scene. At the same time, experimentations were being done even in the renaissance period.</p>
<p>In those times, oil medium was prepared by boiling a mixture of linseed and resin. This resulted in creating the right kind of varnish. The figurative oil paintings made through this were passed through many layers. The oil paintings do not dry very quickly and hence the creators of figurative oil paintings need to be very perseverant. A shade applied over existing shade can mar the effect completely unless it dries out.</p>
<p>Figurative oil paintings can be subtly erotic and tastefully sensual. Anatomical precision is sought more than anything else while making these kinds of paintings. A connoisseur can very quickly find the loopholes for such paintings if there are any.</p>
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		<title>Perfect Nude Portrait Paintings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portrait paintings reflect the emotions of a person. Every portrait reflects the personality of a person. The eyes of the person in the portrait, tells a story by itself. In fact, a portrait can be called perfect only when the artist is able to capture the emotions, in the eyes of the person, perfectly into [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.stefano-campitelli-portrait-and-nude-painting.com">Portrait paintings</a> reflect the emotions of a person. Every portrait reflects the personality of a person. The eyes of the person in the portrait, tells a story by itself. In fact, a portrait can be called perfect only when the artist is able to capture the emotions, in the eyes of the person, perfectly into the portrait. It is not an easy task and every artist puts in a lot of effort to make their portraits look beautiful as well as real.</p>
<p>An expert artist can very successfully reflect the personality of a person through his portrait. He captures everything perfectly into the portrait right from the muscle tone and skull structure to the perfect smile. To make the portrait paintings perfect, an artist first studies his/her subject very closely. He/she very deeply studies the character and personality of the person whose portrait is being made. He/she studies the emotions reflected by the eyes and smile of the subject. The artists very carefully study the structure of the features too.</p>
<p>After close study of the subject, the artists start working on the portrait paintings. They put in all their efforts to fill life into the portrait and make it look real. They try to reflect the different emotions, like happiness, anger, excitement etc., present in the subject, through the portrait. All the qualities which are required to make a portrait look beautiful are present in Leonardo Da Vinci&#8217;s &#8216;Mona Lisa&#8217;. That&#8217;s the reason why it is considered as one of the most beautiful portrait paintings painted till date.</p>
<p>http://www.stefano-campitelli-portrait-and-nude-painting.com/ is a website of Stefano Campitelli, an Italian artist from Rome shows his female and male <a href="http://www.stefano-campitelli-portrait-and-nude-painting.com">nude drawings and paintings</a>, male nude etching prints, lifelike oil portraits, nude male soft-ground etchings and aquatint prints. He also teaches his art techniques. He has been painting and drawing for more than 15 years. Also etching is one of his great passions. In this virtual art gallery you will also find nude drawings, etching prints and aquatints. </p>
<p>Do you need information about art techniques? Here you will find some tips especially about oil painting, drawing and etching. Generally, figure painting is mainly focused on the female figure, but here male nude painting has an important place. Naturally other subjects as flowers and landscapes are represented as well.</p>
<p>If you find the way he express myself different, don&#8217;t worry, he am just an Italian &#8220;tourist&#8221;. If you have any questions or you are searching for some tips about art techniques, feel free to contact him.</p>
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