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If These Walls Could Talk – Preserving Graffiti Art

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If These Walls Could Talk – Preserving Graffiti Art

Everybody has heard somebody use that old adage “If these walls could talk”; this statement is usually taken in referenced to the history and events that take place within the confines of a building with a somewhat lively reputation. Going right back to ancient and pre-historic times people have used pictures, illustrations and of course in the modern day graffiti art to get their feelings and emotions across. For cavemen it has been suggested the drawing pictures was for communication purposes or religion, in ancient Egyptian times they used hieroglyphs including letters, numbers and images to create what is now seen as a record of the times. As the years, decades and centuries have passed art has progressed massively in style and purpose. In the current era perhaps we should be looking at graffiti art as an important sign of the times and as a historical record of the era as with previous art styles.

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If you think about buildings such as prisons, police stations and other buildings with lots of history and many different characters inhabiting their walls you will find hundreds, if not thousands of individual illustrations. These drawings, words and slogans could be determined as graffiti art. In a thousand years any drawings like this could be seen as historical records and artefacts of how people felt at the time being incarcerated and expressing their feelings through art. If graffiti art is not preserved then a big part of history will disappear as if it never existed. One person’s drawings are seen as somebody else’s nonsense however there is always a reason and logic behind anybody deciding to create any form of art. As a creator and retailer of graffiti art, WhoArtNow understand the importance of individual feelings being channelled through art, we can only hope it is preserved and used for future inspiration.

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Create Your Own Bespoke Wall Art

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Create Your Own Bespoke Wall Art

The art that you choose to showcase in your property and on your walls will give people an impression of the type of person you are. This could potentially send out the wrong messages and not be a true reflection of your personality and tastes if you choose any old canvas prints. As a company who love to create bespoke wall art from people’s individual tastes and flair, WhoArtNow would encourage anybody not to just go for the norm and to put some real thought into the wall art you choose to feature in your homes or commercial property. When people buy a car, food, clothing and home furnishings the choices are usually heavily influenced by individual choice, preference and desire for a certain style of object to make your own. The same rules should be applied to the art you choose to hang on your walls. floral canvas art print wall sample

If you are a creative person and like to draw or put images together on a computer you could find that there is no need for you to ever choose someone else’s work of art again. The feeling of satisfaction from first having an idea for wall art and turning it into reality is great. You may choose to showcase family, a moment from your life you enjoyed, someone you have admire or anything at all that you desire. It really doesn’t matter what you choose to create as long as it screams of you and your personality. It can sometimes be hard to think of just one image or multiple images to create into wall art, WhoArtNow can offer a full service solution from consultation through to the finished masterpiece to make sure that you are reflected through your own piece of bespoke wall art.

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Use Canvas Art to Brighten Up Dark Winter Days

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Use Canvas Art to Brighten Up Dark Winter Days

Compared to the last two winter seasons, the current winter period has not quite hit the icy depths of previous years despite many predictions in November and early december of prolonged snow. One feature of the winter that remains no matter what the weather is dark mornings and the sun going down far too early in the evening or even afternoon. fluro art prints warm up a winter morning

For many people there is nothing worse than waking up in the morning, getting out of bed and drawing the curtains to find a sea ofblackness in your view. In the summer you get the complete opposite, bright sunshine, birds singing and a general feeling of get up and go to start the day. If you have a house that is swamped with dark walls or very little light getting in during the hours of d

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aylight in winter you really do need a solution to inspire an increase in motivation, colourful canvas art could just be the answer that you are looking for. When picking canvas art to inspire motivation you need to go for bright colours such as orange, yellow and light blue tones. These lighter colours will help bring back the memories of summer as they are colours that are closely associated with warmth days. Choosing dark tones such as black or a deep red could really leave you feeling even less motivated as they are two colours that are associated with despair, danger and even death! Obviously dark tones used in the right way can really add a touch of elegance to a property but when you are trying to pick yourself up from the dark and cold winter they are the last colours you want to be choosing. Do not get yourself down in this darker season, give yourself an energy boost and spark some inner feelings of enthusiasm in the morning. To view our range of orange canvas prints please visit http://www.whoartnow.co.uk/art/category/60/orange. Orange over any other colour is probably a good place to start to envoke all the emotions and energy you will need for the day ahead!

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How to Create Your Own Pop Art Canvas Prints

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How to Create Your Own Pop Art Canvas Prints

How to Create Pop Art

Pop art is a style of art that has captured the imagination of art lovers since the 1950s era and has gone from strength to strength in lots of different formats and designs ever since. From early pioneers of pop art such as Andy Warhol, Eduardo Paolozzi and Jasper Johns through to modern renowed creators of pop art styles such as Aya Takano, it seems this very bold, unique art sector has unlimited acclaim generation to generation. Many people have tried and failed to create their own pop art style, perhaps looking to over complicate things a little too much or not having the required inspiration for this style of art, whatever the reason there are some foundations and mechanics behind pop art that will help you learn how to create your own pop art. Pop art is very much about raw attitude and a willingness to take the ordinary things from daily life and culture whilst blending it with with completely unrelated materials.

abstract pop art print pop art motorbike giclee art print Taking inspiration from popular culture such as news, comic book heroes and celebrities to name a few and mixing them with a blend of vibrant colours or other unrelated images will give you an idea of how to create a basic pop art piece. Andy Warhol was famous for taking advertising and popular icons of the day and either mixing them with colour and objects at times or creating multiple images of the same face with different finishes applied to each image, examples of this are his work with Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe respectively where he showcased these two famous faces of the day individually across multiple images with the only differences being the blend of colours or tone and pattern in each section. Whatever the inspiration you choose the golden rule when learning how to create pop art is to choose the image of inspiration and perhaps start by making a piece with four to six portraits of the same image all with different colour, texture, tone and pattern. Once you have chosen the image you must then outline the image to get the shape and highlight the different dark and light areas of the image, making a bold or strong outline will help you define your varied tones, patterns and colours later on. The next step of the process is to trace the outlined image and transfering it to your chosen canvas, you might want to start with paper or artists canvas, although it is recommended using paper whilst you learn your skills to save money. After transferring the image and outlines to your chosen canvas, it is time to fill in the basic tones of the image, shading dark areas to emphasise the original basic tones of the image and outline borders.

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This step is essential as it will help to choose which colours, tones and patterns to use on your individual portraits. At this early stage as a pop artist we would recommend sticking with four portraits, this way you can complete each section with a different set of presentation, one for colour, one for tone, one four pattern and one for texture. Progressing this way will also help you to see how comfortable you are with different styles as you may find colour or one of the others finishes is your strong point. Once complete you will have the foundation or either a potential masterpiece or a complete mess, however this basic guide on how to create pop art will help to highlight improvement areas and where you are going wrong.

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Religious Art Helps to Unite Many Faiths

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Religious Art Helps to Unite Many Faiths

Religion is a feature in all walks of life across the entire planet, there are many different forms of religion and that in itself has been the subject of many debates, wars and conflicts over thousands of years, which, at times has driven a gulf between different cultures and faiths.

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Most religions are very symbolic and can be instantly recognised no matter what your own cultural background may be. Each religion tends to have their own views and traditions relating to the beginning of life or their own historic events that are often symbolised through art.

As mentioned the difference in various beliefs has been a major issue for thousands of years leading to persecution and countless deaths due to religious wars. However in modern society as cultures have evolved, learning and understanding other religions has become a very acceptable part of every day life and most people individually will completely accept other religions with understanding and also want to learn about other cultures and their history.

Religious art and symbolism has really helped to unite many faiths together, this is evident in people's homes, in the workplace and at retail outlets throughout the world. Think about it, you can visit almost any garden centre in the UK and find garden statues of Buddha who is a massive symbol of the Buddhism; a religion not traditionally associated with a country with a foundation of belief towards Christianity.

Many living room and dining room interiors are influenced by symbols, statues and associated with Buddha as people simply like the style and imagery of Central Asian, particularly Indian culture. A Buddha statue is synonymous with the teachings of Siddharta Gautama also known as Buddha, who was a teacher thousands of years ago in the Middle Asia and Indian continent. Buddhism is largely associated with Karma and Rebirth whereas more western religions believe in a spiritual life after death.

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Such beliefs of being reborn as another being depending on the way a person lived their last life goes completely against religions such as Hinduism and Christianity that firmly believe in a spiritual continuation of life in the afterlife of a person dying physically. When you consider the huge gulf between such religion's beliefs it just goes to show how influencial religious art can be in people accepting other cultures for other purposes other than to follow them

As the centuries have moved on the issue of interfaith cooperation is one that has bonded and brought together many religions in a way that would not have been imaginable even a few centuries ago when people only accepted their own beliefs and religion. The bringing together of many faiths is more present in western society than anywhere else in the world and there is even a World Intefaith Harmoney Week that brings all different types of religions together.

It seems as the years go by that people will continue to accept other faiths and embrace them through religious art, symbols and culture; with this in mind it would not be a surprise to see Christians featuring religious art with Muslim influence, or a Muslim featuring religious art with a Christian influence such as Jesus on the cross.

In summary, art, particularly religious art really has had a huge effect on uniting faiths and hopefully this trend will continue for centuries to come. To view our own range of religious art please visit http://www.whoartnow.co.uk/art/category/42/abstract-art/religious.