Starting a new hobby can be a bit daunting, don’t you think? There’s everything to buy and no previous knowledge about what to get. You go into a store and the range is huge.

“I’m just beginning with acrylic paints and I only want to buy a paint brush!”

Well, when you’re beginning with acrylic paints there are a few things you need to know before you get as far as the store.

The key thing with acrylic paint is that it dries very quickly which can a blessing when you are ready to tidy away. Or a curse if you don’t know how quickly it dries and it ruins your brush!

Learn everything you need to know about acrylic painting here.

Below are some general tips on how to get a sense of the value of your artwork. If you are attempting to get an accurate value of an artwork for insurance, auction or selling purposes I recommend that you hire a professional appraiser as they are the ones that will certify their appraisal.

There are hundreds of techniques appraisers use but for this article I will stick to some general and very affective ones to determine the value of your artwork.

Originality- Original artwork is often copied by making a print (giclee, lithography) or copy (manufactured). A print for example (depending on the number of prints) is always lower in price then the original artwork itself.

Learn hoe to appraise your own artwork here.

Everyone wants to save money. Don’t you? Well, painting your own, color matched art can be a lot easier than you might think!

Usually the picture that you want for your room will have an outrageous price. Or maybe you just can’t find anything that matches your new color scheme?

There is a simple way to paint your own pictures and save a fortune. Not only will you save money but you can exactly match your décor as well. Use this easy method and you can make your own unique pictures.

Learn all about painting your own artwork here.

Before the advent of photography, portrait paintings and sketches were the only way images of loved ones could be preserved for posterity. Perhaps the most famous oil painting portrait in the world is the Mona Lisa, painted by Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci in the early 1500s. Oil painting portraits became increasingly popular in European countries over the next few centuries, with masters such as Rembrandt in Holland and Gainsborough in Britain completing some of their most famous and exquisite portraits. In the 18th and 19th centuries, American artists completed important works of art. Some of these works are now housed in the National Portrait Museum in Washington, D.C.

Learn all about Oil Painting here.

Somebody once said that it’s easier to live your life if you are living in the present moment instead of living in the past or the future. Wouldn’t it make our lives even easier if we use the present moment to create our desires right now? Instead of seeing that what we want is coming in the future, we can choose see that what we want is right here right now. This is a key step in the creation process.

Sitting in the present moment and seeing what we want is the easy part. The hard parts are figuring out what we want to create and seeing that we have access to it right now. It takes great focus and determination to do this, but anybody can be successful at it.

The creation process can contain many steps or it can contain just a few. The important part is to figure what works for YOU. Each person is individual and has a different belief system, and the belief system plays a big part in creating what we want.

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