Art Collecting and Art Display

Whether is your favourite oil painting, acrylic or watercolor, a painting will give your rooms the finishing touch, and will add character to your space. Art display can instantly warm up any room, and show up your personality.

Tips on Art Collecting:

• Buy art that you love, and enjoy looking at it. Don't think of it solely as an investment. After all, you will be the one looking at it the most!
• Develop your "eye" for it, by going to museums, art galleries, or by reading art magazines. Lots of galleries are available "on-line".
• Collect original art for its richness and added depth, rather than prints.
• Aquire pieces painted by unknown or emerging artists - often you can find them at a reasonable price.

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Tips on Art Display:

• If you have large walls, you might want to display one very large piece of art, or a few large ones. Avoid displaying one small picture,it will look lost on the wall.
  
  
  By hanging them behind a couch, or above a sideboard, you will create a focal point for the room.
• If you have four or more pictures, the same size, hang them on a pattern, using the technique called grouping. Leave the same space between them. Try groups of four, five, or six.
  
  
• If you have four very small paintings, use oversized mats and frame them. The effect will be dramatic!
  
  
• If you have a long hallway, you can hang art in a gallery style. Everybody can walk, and admire each piece!
• If you have wallpaper, hang art that complements the wall. Pay more attention if the wallpaper has a pattern in it! Try a mat or a frame in one of the colors from the pattern.
  
  
• If you want make your ceiling appear higher, stack your paintings one on top of the other. Don't forget that the first painting should hang quite low.

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