Still life photos are akin to fine art. The style dates back centuries. Right back to the days when paintings of fruit bowls and flowers in vases were a thing. The same style is an entire genre in modern photography, just not with bowls of fruit. Things can be far more interesting.
Online art sites market to the masses. It is hard to stand out. To get your art into the eyes of customers ready to part with their cash to own the art that you made, your photography needs to vouch for your talent.
When you aren’t there to pitch the art, the digital copy needs to do the talking for you.
You can do a lot with very little. Sometimes, with just the things already laying around your house. Like the children’s toys, coloured pens, a laptop, a phone, and some paper to make stencils.
Read on below to discover some neat photography and framing tips for using parts of photo frames to make your own creative art that will be like no other.
Spring is no time to be lazing around indoors binging on TV. The outdoors is alive bursting with colourful blooms, scents filling the air, wildlife adjusting to the brighter mornings, and the weather warming up, even if only slightly.
Your smartphone is your on-the-go computer. Regardless of the operating system (Windows, Android, or iOS), it will have a camera. The quality of photos taken is not as good as those taken with a DSLR, but with a little know-how, photos can be taken that are of a much similar quality.
The walls in any room are a blank canvas awaiting design. How you decorate them is a preference. It can be photos, paintings, sculptures, or shelves to display multiple ornamental items.
Art is and will continue to be, subjective. What one person views as evocative, imaginative, dramatic, or creative, another person could see the same thing and call it blatant vandalism.
Digital art is accessible and affordable. You can buy art online, have it delivered as a media file to your inbox, and print it out to frame in a matter of minutes.
There is no shortage of places to a buy a picture frame. Making a quality purchase that holds its value is another matter. Moreover, when you have items of sentimental or monetary value that needs framing for preservation, you absolutely need to be certain that the frame is up to the job intended.
Historically, the tradition for Mother’s Day gifts has long been a bouquet of flowers. The symbol started way back in the 1900s when children would pick wild flowers on their way to church. Over the years, traditions have faded, the traditional fruit cake (simnel cake) has fallen out of favour being replaced with more modern practices of breakfast in bed, or special Mother’s Day meals and recipes.
