Artist Brushes - Different Varieties and Styles

Brushes are very important for every artists. They are like weapons for all the artists. Artists can bring out the their thoughts only by their brushes. Painting beautiful pictures displays the sheer talent of the artist and this is done with the help of it. As different painters use different kinds of paints and brushes, there is no standard that can be considered as the best. Over a million varieties of it can be found these days.
Knowing Artist Brushes- Types and Varieties
It can be either synthetic or natural hair brushes. It is quite expensive compared to the synthetic hair brushes. The differentiating factor between natural and synthetic brushes is their fibre. While it is made of the hair from animals like horse, pigs and so forth, the synthetic hair brushes are made of nylon.
Natural hair brushes: It made of natural hair is available in different varieties and styles.

How to Sell Art Directly to Collectors and Other Buyers?

All artists at various times in their careers have opportunities to sell their art directly to collectors or other interested parties-- either privately from their studios or publicly at open studios, art walks, art fairs and the like. The following tips and pointers, in no particular order, are designed to help any artist maximize the potential for positive outcomes in one-on-one encounters with anyone who's thinking about buying their art...
* Make sure everyone who visits your studio, booth or space feels welcome and comfortable around your art. Be available to answer their questions; give them a feel for how you work and what life in the studio is like. Have your bio, exhibition history, statement and other relevant printed materials available on hand for anyone to read or take with them.

Two Hands, Two Brushes

Camley shared her style of painting with two brushes in the November 2010 issue of The Artist’s Magazine. Recently, she shared this charming picture that demonstrates her unique style as she works on a painting of a fruit laden persimmon tree.

Albert Handell | Using Pastel to Create Dramatic Skies

              The sky is responsible for much of the drama in a landscape. In the August 2011 issue of The Pastel Journal, master pastelist Albert Handell outlines some key considerations for handling composition, color and cloud control in order to make the most of this key landscape component. In this gallery of paintings, Handell describes the approaches he took to each.

My hand picked gallery

These are the few hand picked best paintings from the web. These paintings are considered as the precious jewel of country. The great artists M.F.Hussain did a marvelous job by doing these paintings below.               

Various Types Of Artist Paintings

What makes some things art and other things non-art? Art comes in a variety of styles shapes and forms. Modern art can be nonsensical and surreal and traditional art can feature watercolor scenes and portrait paintings. Here is some information about the different types of artist paintings. Some of these may be familiar and others may be new.

Portrait painting is a very popular and appealing style and it can be fascinating to look back to the past and see how people used to dress and live. It is always interesting to imagine the lives and thoughts they had in these lifelike representations.
Before the use of photography, those that wanted to preserve their memory through a visual representation, such as kings and queens and the nobility, would commission an artist to paint their portrait. Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is now a priceless example of a woman whose portrait is world famous.

Street artist

A street artist is someone who creates and/or sells their art or craft in public for the pleasure of passers-by.
Some people use the term 'street artist' more broadly and also refer to people involved in busking, such as musicians who sing and/or play instruments, acrobats, jugglers, living statues, performers of street theatre, artists who use pastel crayons to copy famous paintings onto pavements, as well as artists who sell their paintings, portraits (e.g. caricatures), prints, and various crafts.
While some street artists may support themselves by selling a physical commodity like a portrait on paper or a painting upon canvas, performers may encourage payment by having pedestrians show their appreciation by giving coins, usually into a hat or a can.

How to Set and Raise Selling Prices for your Art

Q: My goal is to work full-time as an artist selling my paintings. Currently, I work at an unrelated job during the day and paint during the evenings and weekends. Please give me some strategies for increasing my income, particularly methods that I can use to periodically raise my selling prices.
A: The most important point to keep in mind when figuring out how to price and sell your art, no matter what it is-- paintings, photographs, giclees, watercolors, sculpture, whatever-- is that you are one of many, many, many artists out there. No matter what kind of art you make, other artists make it too. Even though in theory you have complete control over how much you charge for your art and when to give yourself a raise, you must always consider the competition. Artists who ignore the big picture either price themselves out of the market to begin with or raise their prices so often or so high without adequate justification that they lose credibility with galleries and people who buy art.
Best procedure is to let the marketplace determine your selling prices and the intervals at which they increase. For starters, figure out how much artists with similar credentials and exhibition experience to yours charge for their work. For example, if you've been painting for three years and have had four shows, see what artists with similar experience and resumes who live and work in your area sell their paintings for. Other variables to consider are the length of time you take to paint a painting, costs of materials, and other incidental expenses like framing and transportation. Using those values as a base point, experiment with offering your work at price levels in that vicinity and see what happens.

Sell your article online

(Note: This article was originally written for collectors, but this version has been written especially
 for artists selling their own art. Artists selling art at online auctions will also find this article helpful--
 You Can't Sell Your Art Until You Learn How to Sell It.)

These days, some millions of works of art are for sale at any given moment at online auctions--
well over two million on eBay alone-- and the competition to sell pretty much all of it is intense
and international. Smart artists are aware of this competition as well as of their online auction odds
 for success and, as a result, have developed various strategies and techniques in order to minimize
competition, maximize the people who see their listings, incite bidding, and bank the bucks when
the time comes to  cash buyers' checks.

"Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal"

Thus go words that Pablo Picasso may have uttered,although
 (1) I cannot find definitive attribution anywhere and (2) a great many other writers, poets,songwriters and visual artists have supposedly said almost the exact same thing. (You can read the last word [pun intended] on that which T.S. Eliot said here,and kudos to Nancy Prager for her detective work.) Anyway.Assuming that Picasso did say this--and seriously, I would love to learn of a verifiable source--I think the words "Good artists borrow, great artists steal" constitute one of the most misunderstood and misused creative phrases of all time.