The worst insult an artist may experience is to see their painting hanging in someone’s home or in a gallery with a cheap frame that conflicts with the direction the artist intended for the painting. Edgar Degas is said to have taken one of his paintings down from a collector’s wall with the intent of […]
You may know someone who has a painting or photo hanging in their home or office in a frame that’s obviously the wrong size. My grandmother was like that. I remember an aerial picture of my grandparent’s farm that hung in their dining room. The photo fit the frame horizontally but it was a few
Painting is sold! As an artist, one of the things I hate is when someone sees a painting I’m working on and comments about it. I totally understand why they do it; things just don’t look right to them. Even though they’re not artists, they inherently know enough about composition because they have seen
