Hanging Display Traditionally oil paintings are framed without glass as they already have the protection of their coat of varnish. However works on paper such as watercolours, drawings, prints,...
A Short Guide to Buying and Selling Antique Frames Antique, old, and vintage picture frames have become collectable and valuable pieces of art in there own right.Examples of 19th Century composition...
Oil paintings, water colours, acrylics, drawings both ancient and modern are all capable of being copied. The best way to recognise them is to learn how they are made. Our 1,300 page book on this subject...
CONTEMPORARY WOODBLOCK PRINTS - THE JAPANESE RENAISSANCE After the difficult times in the first half of the Twentieth Century in Japan there grew a slow renaissance in the art of Woodblock Prints: Many...
Water gilding is a highly skilled and very labor intensive technique. Each stage in the process is time consuming. The quality of finish is unrivalled and to an expert it is instantly recognizable. Used over...