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9 Famous Paintings That Remind Us of Summer: Many enjoy being able to swap out the artwork in their homes to best accommodate the current season. After all, the settings, stories, and colors apart of a painting can give off a particular warmness or coolness that we associate with different types of weather. Since it is now summer, our Cocoweb team found several wonderful works of art that remind us of summertime that you may love for your own home:1. Endless Summer (2011) by Leonid Afr …

8 Expert Tips for Displaying Artwork in Your Home Picking out artwork is a challenge in itself. However, another difficulty arises when deciding how to best represent a piece of work in your home. It’s easy to hang a picture, but ensuring multiple pieces flow together and appropriately complement or contrast with the rest of the room is not an easy task. Since experts are expert for a reason, let’s turn to some for advice on properly displaying artwork, shall we? …

Turning Your Interior Design into an Art-Filled Environment is a No-Brainer Art is essential in providing color, emotion, and purpose in any room. Turn a bland space into an artistic sanctuary by adding the right works in the right places. For some, picking the best pieces can be stressful. Having several options to pick from and not knowing which paintings are best suited for a space are common reasons for the latter concern. However, incorporating art into your home can b …

Museum Lighting is an Art in Itself: 4 Reasons Why Picture Lights are Aesthetically Important Whether walking through a museum or just looking at an art piece hanging on the wall of a home, everyone knows that art tells a story. The colors, the theme, and the subjects presented are all vital parts of the artwork along with the frame that surrounds it. However, many don’t stop to think about the impact a piece of art’s picture light has on the rest of the work. Perhaps …

Even Color Tells a Story: Watercolor Versus Oil Paintings Art is phenomenal in that there are hundreds of medium available to use to make a piece of work: paint, chalk, spray paint, pencil, pen, colored pencil, pastels – you name it. Delving into the topic of paint, even more categories are available. However, knowing the differences between your watercolor and oil painting is especially potent to ensure the work of art can be most appropriately preserved and displayed; it is not …