We keep our photos in different places. We may not display them nor put them all in wonderful frames but we make sure we keep them in safe places. As much as possible, we want to have them in their best possible conditions when we look back at them in time. Of course, we cannot [...]

Just aim and shoot, right? Anyone that’s interested in photography knows better than to think that taking pictures is just that simple. Sure, pointing your camera at something and taking a picture will certainly record an event, but if you really want photographs that are worth looking at year after year, you may be interested [...]

Sometimes a regular job may become monotonous and we may like to do something outside our job that may give a little extra income and a allow us to follow our interests. You may like to do something for which you may have a passion. It may be arts, photography, music or anything else.
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You should have the right kind of palette to start off with. Your palette should be non-porous to prevent absorption of oil from the paint. Palettes come in a variety of different materials from glass to wood. My personal preference is the BOB ROSS Clear Palette. I have found this palette the easiest to clean [...]

Over the years the popularity of digital photography has significantly increased. This is due to the leaping advancements in quality and the lowering prices of digital cameras.
The quality offered by top end digital cameras has all but matched that offered by large format film. Many argue that what small difference in quality film [...]

The Art Institute’s collection of Modern and contemporary art is one of the most comprehensive of any museum and includes two icons of 20th-century American art: Grant Wood’s American Gothic and Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks. The museum has a longstanding commitment to contemporary art, reflected in the 1913 decision to exhibit the Armory Show, the largest [...]

Fantasy art is different than any other kind of art because it is often composed of things that dont exist. These things come from your imagination and while you canҒt grab a unicorn and ask it to sit still so you can draw it there are some techniques you can use that will improve your [...]

Everyone will love to just watch nature with a pair of binoculars. Even though the people that studied birds loved to watch them they wished that they could take a picture when they had a perfect shot like so many times when they looked through a pair of binoculars and saw a pretty shot.
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Oil paintings definitely do look classy and elegant, but is the work as simple as it looks? Let us find out. The work that goes into bringing out oil paintings is immense. As with other works of art, this also follows a certain set of procedures. And an artist doing such oil paintings needs to [...]

I have been a huge fan of extreme macro photography for quite some time now. While experimenting with a lot of different equipment, and many different theories, I learned a lot about macro photography, and what it takes to assemble a high quality system, while on a budget. There several components to a macro setup [...]