j o h n s a l m o n w a t e r c o l o u r s As a practicing artist who sells his watercolour artwork on eBay, I am often asked questions about watercolour painting so I aim to make this information...
Ebay item descriptions relating to Limited Edition Prints and the shipping often include the words " The print will be shipped rolled in a rigid tube to avoid damage." Rolling a print can cause damage to the...
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...
Choosing the correct place It is not easy to display a lot of fine pictures in a home. Trying to obtain balance whylst keeping them in a good condition Whether they are lithographs, prints or paintings. ...
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...
Main parts of a Dip Pen Nib. A typical Dip Pen Nib has three main parts: The Shank, also known as the base or heel - this is the section that goes into the pen holder: The Tip - which is the point of the nib...
Hello there. I've been collecting bronzes by a company called Heredities for a while now, and thought that if you had seen one of these fine peices, and had considered perhaps starting a collection of your...
So you've seen a painting listed and the description just mentions ever so casually that 'a friend said it looked like Munnings/Turner (or whoever) and, by coincidence, the first few initials of the grubby...
What is the mount for is one of the questions I am often asked by Clients will attempt to explain here, We have all seen pictures with water staining the discolouration that results, most of these pictures...
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...