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 available...
As a collector and researcher of Baxter Prints I have been constantly watching Ebay for many years. As a dealer in Baxter prints, apart from a few sales very early on in 2001, we have always restricted our...
Choosing quality canvas prints from among the plethora of suppliers on eBay can sometimes be difficult and confusing. Printed canvas art, whilst more widely available now, is still a relatively new product....
Many people enjoy collecting hand-coloured, and uncoloured fashion plates and those of the Georgian period, particularly the Regency era, are especially prized. This article aims to give some background...
Fake Movie Posters – A WARNING. Below is a brief general guide to buying vintage posters circa 1950-1980 and whilst faking the older posters is generally unusual, we have now started to notice a specific...
Original Paintings on Canvas are good, but have you looked at the option of Digital Canvas? This is basically where a very high resolution printing is done on Canvas and the resulting printing is an amazing...
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...
20th CENTURY SHIN AND SOSAKA HANGA JAPANESE WOODBLOCKS WHAT WHY The Meiji Era, 1868 to 1912, was a very bad time for Woodblock Print Artists in Japan. The Established Order of Master and Student was...
Chromolithograph postcards are in my opinion one of the most under-rated types of postcard. In good condition they are far superior to modern printed cards. These are mostly pre-WWI and printed in 'Old...
At Visual Art 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 proven themselves to produce art...