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Hello and welcome to The Art SHOPTALK!  In case you don’t know us, we are a 5500-square foot state-of-the-art fine art and framing gallery.  While we are physically located in Greensboro, North Carolina, we have shipped art and framing to as far away places as Australia, Spain and Russia.  Thanks to the Internet, our customer base is ...
Section: Content | Category: Community | Date: Tuesday, 01 November 2011 | Hits: 1100
... a very early age. Encouraged by his parents and his uncle, Pino, he trained at some of the finest schools in Italy.  Pino moved to the US in 1979 and Vidan followed in 1988.  He followed in his uncle’s footsteps and took work as a cover illustrator for romance magazines.  For 15 years, his artwork appeared on book covers for such publishers ...
Section: Content | Category: Artists | Date: Friday, 09 March 2012 | Hits: 9307
Any plans for Valentine’s Day? Hope your celebration is better than this woman’s - she & her husband go to the card store every Valentine’s Day, pick out cards, read them to each other and then put them back on the shelf. (Yes, cards are pricey, but come on!) And I hope your spouse is more romantic than this woman’s - her husband (now ...
Section: Content | Category: Community | Date: Tuesday, 05 February 2013 | Hits: 411
Galleries around the world, The Art Shop included, are seeing an increased demand for embellished limited-edition canvases.  What is embellishing and why is it so popular?   The word "embellish" as defined by Webster is "to make beautiful by ornamentation, to adorn or to add fanciful details to."  When we’re ...
Section: Content | Category: Artists | Date: Friday, 02 March 2012 | Hits: 2504
... "I’ve always joked that History of Western Art ruined me for commercial art. It combined my passions for history and for art and helped me decide I wanted to be around fine art, at least in some small way."  He took a part-time job at a frame shop while attending GTCC.  He had never thought to make framing a career, but his ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Friday, 12 October 2012 | Hits: 633
  One of our favorite sayings is "If it isn’t moving, we can frame it."  (We were tested once while framing huge spider.  IT MOVED! The framer had extensive therapy and is doing fine now. Thank you.) When you work with clients on framing projects, you often have a window into their lives and it can be a rather intimate experience.  ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2012 | Hits: 828
Webster’s defines "challenge" as "a stimulating task or problem." And that is what our Production Director Chris Taylor loves.  Whenever we have a framing question or tough framing problem to solve, the answer is usually, "Let’s ask Chris." Chris joined The Art Shop in 2000.  Having studied engineering ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Friday, 20 July 2012 | Hits: 691
 
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