Wassily Kandinsky is the artist responsible for painting the first strictly abstract works. Born in Moscow on December 16, 1866, Mr. Kandinsky grew up in Odessa before enrolling in the University of Moscow. He chose to study economics and law and was very successful in these fields. He was even offered a professorship at the [...]

With the current trend in DNA art printing, anyone can furnish his home with or give away gifts of unique abstract canvas art. DNA portraits refer to a digital image of your genetic code, enhanced and printed on museum-grade canvas for display. They come in various styles, designs, and colors and may be framed in [...]

Chances are you’ll be asking your self, what precisely is British investment artwork? The easy answer is British investment artwork is a piece of art work, created by a British artist, and acquired for the sole purpose of making a profit on its sale after a certain interval of time. What qualifies a piece of [...]

Franz Marc is perhaps one of the greatly celebrated artists of the twentieth century. This man who became so large in the art industry was born in Munich in Germany only a week to Valentines Day of 1880.It is said that at birth Marc was so ugly that during his baptism his father looked at [...]

American painter Winslow Homer was born in Boston, Massachusetts on February 24, 1836. He is considered one of the most influential artists in 19th century America. Mostly self-taught, Winslow Homer is most recognized for his realistic renderings in oils and watercolor. His subjects were largely nautical scenes and landscapes depicting country and rural life. He [...]

All it takes to be an artist is to start doing art. That sounds simple, but actually producing art is difficult. The hardest part is making yourself go to the canvas or paper and begin working. I’ve given ideas on how to create the time, and ways to deal with anxiety, but sometimes the anxiety [...]

American modern artist Georgia Totto O’Keefe was born on November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin to dairy farmer parents. She decided she was going to be an artist when she was only ten years old. She was a prominent figure in the art community way before women could acquire art training in schools in [...]

When I set out to learn how to draw portraits I took a very unusual approach. Instead of buying myself a sketchbook and a few pencils I bought and read, one-by-one, every good book I could find about how to draw portraits and I made endless notes, illustrated with endless sketches. I love being an [...]

Pet portraits and pet paintings are something we see everywhere in this day and age. However it is not a new idea that we have beautiful drawings of our dearest pets done so we can cherish them forever. The first known examples date back to over 17000 years ago when a number of ‘pet portraits’ [...]

To be a good landscape artist, you have to be a student of nature. If you study the effect sunlight has on the trees, dirt, flowers, rivers, streams, oceans, snow, and everything else in sight, then you know the colors are in constant change with the time of day and the atmospheric conditions. If you [...]