Month: April 2022

Top 3 Useful iPad Apps For Painters : 1. Art Set As its name suggests, this app is all about giving your iPad its very own art set. With this app you get a great range of art supplies, including paints, pastels, pens and pencils, as well as a variety of different paper types and colours to work on. You can even import your own photos and have them as a backdrop to work on. One of the great things about this app is the attention to detail: all of the paints and other supplies look and act very realistically. The graphics are of such a high quality that it's like having a genuine art set in front of you. You'll find this app easy to use - it's designed to be accessible to people of all skill levels, whether beginner or expert. This is a paid app with two versions: the basic one, which is ...

It's Only Paint and Canvas : What is the true" market value" of a painting? How does a potential collector know that a fair price is being offered? After all, the price can be negotiated... It's not like a car, a stereo system, or a suit jacket that contains technical components and can be shopped between stores. It's only paint and canvas, right? Lines, colors, shapes, usually on a flat rectangular surface: that's how we most often define "a painting." As an objet d'art it has perceived value, both inside and out of the marketplace. Often paintings contain little or no moving parts. Precious metals may be employed, but not usually-it's simply canvas by-the-yard and pigment. The materials of which a painting is made today are not much different than they were thousands of years ago, w...

The Perfect Subject : Is there such a thing-the "perfect" subject to paint-- on any given day? Like song-choice for a musician, the subject an artist chooses to paint carries his/her personality, abilities and message to the viewers who will see it. Possibilities abound: perhaps a 300-foot tumbling waterfall, the sun poised on a dramatic orange horizon, or that striking profile of a most beautiful model. What really makes for a "perfect" subject? Let's see what some other artists say on that "subject:" "The subject itself is no account; what matters is the way it is presented." (Raoul Dufy) "Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting." (Rene Huyghe) "There has to be that magical 'urge' and excitement to paint the subject, or ...

Is That Art Print Humble? : Why on earth would the butterfly, once a caterpillar, want to become a 'worm'? The false disdain that many artists show today by not making their works available for prints is rooted in the shaky hierarchy established between the original and the print. Some have a tendency to believe that their original will lose its value, whereas it is the other way round. In my years as an art lover, critic and now curator, Van Gogh, Monet, Modigliani and Matisse (Oh Matisse!) would not be sitting around me had it not been for that one clever thing called a 'print'. Soon, the Bindu, at which I have looked reverently in many a place remembering SH Raza's soft voiced commentary, will reach my desk in perfect digital print one fine day for Rs 50, 000 and stay even long after...