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One of the questions we get asked very often is, "How do you select the art you hang in your gallery?" Other artists who would like us to hang theirs most often ask this. Generally speaking, to hang on our walls or to be featured on our website, the artist needs to be a known entity people are searching for over the Internet.  ...
Section: Content | Category: Community | Date: Monday, 23 January 2012 | Hits: 1170
... 1912 and 1948, amateur artists could win gold, silver or bronze in any of five different categories:  architecture, painting, sculpture, literature and music.  Entries had to have some sort of sporting theme and were judged by an international jury. Never heard of this?  Neither had I.  It’s probably because few artists of note ...
Section: Content | Category: Artists | Date: Friday, 03 August 2012 | Hits: 864
We’re just cleaning up from our Garmash/Danish show and now we’re getting ready for our Fifth Annual Holiday Open House (Thursday, December 6 from 7-9pm).  Yikes! It’s a quick turnaround! Before the show, we filled our walls with gorgeous Garmashes and Danishes for their show while the rest of our artists cooled their heels ...
Section: Content | Category: Community | Date: Friday, 30 November 2012 | Hits: 574
... have been a permanent reminder of that beautiful stage of our lives and theirs.  If I only knew then what I know now. At The Art Shop, we’ve had the great pleasure of commissioning portraits for several clients with various amazing artists.  The end results are beyond your typical portrait with the subject in front of a fuzzy background.  ...
Section: Content | Category: Artists | Date: Thursday, 07 June 2012 | Hits: 1403
... in future posts.    Our gallery and website are filled with the world’s most collected artists – originals, limited-edition canvases, sculpture and fine art glass.  Our creative designers and framers have won numerous regional, national and international framing competitions sponsored by the PPFA (Professional Picture Framers Association). ...
Section: Content | Category: Community | Date: Tuesday, 01 November 2011 | Hits: 1100
Lenny & I pride ourselves on being a family business.  We are the 2nd generation of Dolins to own & operate The Art Shop having purchased it from Lenny’s father, Stan, in 1989.    Stan had owned & operated the store since 1964. That’s why it’s especially exciting for us to carry a 2nd generation artist – Vidan, nephew ...
Section: Content | Category: Artists | Date: Friday, 09 March 2012 | Hits: 9307
... The Art Shop on the internet while searching for Royo’s work, one of my favorite contemporary artists at the time.  After visiting the gallery in 2004, I was introduced to Pino’s work.  It was from this visit I became a fan of Pino’s work and this became one of the reasons I wanted to work at The Art Shop.  In 2005, I moved to North Carolina ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Monday, 23 April 2012 | Hits: 1306
... about the Polish sausage from The Mighty Igor.)  In addition to handling all the finances, Lenny handles the bulk of our Internet marketing.  The Art Shop sells art and framing all over the world through our web site and Lenny corresponds with many of the people who send inquiries about our artists. With his knowledge of the business and ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Monday, 14 May 2012 | Hits: 926
... of one of them from UNCG’s Weatherspoon Gallery and suggested she do a little research before painting over them.  An internet search told her the artist, Bolotowsky, was one of the premier abstract artists of the 20th century. She contacted Weatherspoon who confirmed the painting was loaned to the museum by Burlington Industries, Inc. and displayed ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Friday, 28 September 2012 | Hits: 560
... talking about art on canvas, embellishing refers to painting over areas of the image to enhance color and/or to add brush strokes to the finished work.  Embellishing techniques are as unique as the artists themselves – some use oil paints while others use clear gesso, some have a great deal of texture while others apply a thin layer of paint. In ...
Section: Content | Category: Artists | Date: Friday, 02 March 2012 | Hits: 2504
 
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