I have been selling on ebay for just over one year and during this period I have witnessed an alarming number of fake Irish painting being offered for sale. An art forger will go to great lenghts to dupe you...
Things to beware of: HAND FINISHED CANVAS PRINTS. Beware when buying a canvas painting. Make sure that you are actually getting an original and not a hand finished print. These items are often sold as...
Please be aware that almost all of these "vintage" pictures are modern fakes. Forget the aged frames, the old-looking (often partly-torn) labels on the back of such pictures - they're also fake. Another clue...
Caring for your artwork. At Modern Fine Arts the techniques used in creating and framing your artwork is largely the same as those used by artists for many hundreds of years. These techniques have generally...
Buying art on eBay is an exciting venture. Firstly the number of works currently available on the market place,by so many different types of artists easily surpasses anything that is available from your high...
Hand Painted Silk - What is it? A peice of silk fabric (material) that has been painted by hand, using dyes. Which ever type of dye has been used to paint the silk, needs to be fixed or cured, to allow...
As my favourite artist is Govinder Nazran, it really bugs me when peeps sell cards and prints as limited editions when they are not! It is easy to be caught out, especially if buying art for someone as a...
If you are thinking about buying contemporary art through eBay then have a quick read of this... it may save you from making some of the mistakes I made when I started out. Buying from a self representing...
Is the picture you see the picture you buy? I am sick of trying to buy copies of paintings from usually chinese sites where the seller photographs the original old master and we end...
There are loads of fantastic bargains awaiting the canny buyer on the ebay website. There are also lots of copies and inferior paintings with forged signatures. In order to beome successful in the art world...