A fun looking store in Red Deer, Alberta, with gifts and house warning items for everyone. A great example of home grown business by hard working owners that looks successful and appreciated in downtown Red Deer. There are a variety of items in several styles and cultures than should appeal to all tastes.

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A picture is worth a thousand words. Ugh, what a cliche. But it's still true. Including images in your blog is a good way to up your post appeal. If you're like me, though, you hate to look for clip art because most free clip art sites are torture to navigate. But for you, dear readers, I have braved clip art hell in an effort to find the b

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My early thoughts about this art world icon were sorely incomplete and inwardly deceptive, this figure had a very silent but exposive personality that caused everyone who met him to misinterpret him. Behind the blonde hair and nu vogue wardrobe lied a rather intriguing and accomplished visual artist - an artist that would chang

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Did you ever know that your Art skills can drive traffic to your blog? Never thought of that, right?

So, what the hell has Art to do with traffic? A lot. Let me explain.

If you’re good at drawing, especially at drawing cartoons or portraits, then it can be a huge bonus for you. You should be at the very least above-average in Art though

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Walter Sickert was born in Munich to a Danish father, Oswald Sickert, a painter and journalistic draftsman, and an English mother. Oswald emigrated with his family to England in 1868 to keep his sons from being conscripted into the German army. In 1875 Walter enrolled at King's College in London. In 1881 he entered the Slade S

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A fun weekend event to plan for is the Anna Maria Island Art Springfest festival. Always a good gathering of art and craft, lots of food and music, and just a great atmosphere of friends and tourists. Since it's the busy season of spring break and warm weather seekers, parking and traffic is an issue, but there's plenty of ro

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A quick and easy way to hang any kind of art: yours or your children’s! You could also hang Christmas lights or other decorations this way. We bought a bunch of assorted picture hooks and poster strips and all we did was peel the sticker off the back, press the hook/strip against the wall for a few seconds to secure it, then hang the picture!

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If you're wondering where to take the kids in Vancouver next weekend, why not head down to the Vancouver Art Gallery for their SuperSunday session?  Local artists, in addition to staff and volunteers will be there to demonstrate various types of art, and the kids can even get involved in creating their own projects.

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What a wonderful world it would be if every comic book cover was an artistic masterpiece. Alas, this is not so. For every stunning Bill Sienkiewicz or Brian Bolland cover, there's a dozen or more mediocre (at best) covers - and yeah, we're lookin' at you DC Countdown! Who is your favorite cover artist, and why? What's the absolutely w

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Photos of my favorite illustrations from children's board books - all beautifully designed with gorgeous colors! Titles include The Snowy Day, Eating the Alphabet, Let's Paint a Rainbow, and Snuggle Up Sleepy Ones. Also from Todos Los Bebes, The Runaway Bunny, Easter Easter Almost Here, and more. Illustrators include Ezra Jack Keats, Eri

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I love trees! They give us fresh air and a great view!
They’re all around us, keeping our surroundings green and the air fresh.
Everyone likes a nice stroll around the park, taking in the view, feeling nature around them.
So let’s celebrate and appreciate trees with these weird little facts!
Trees are beautiful, but they

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What a hilarious idea! Pimping Thanksgiving dinner with an unusual twist: This is from a site called tampon crafts - no seriously, they make all sorts of awesome, weird and funny stuff with tampons. I cannot believe that there’s a whole website dedicated to the art of, well, tampon crafting. But don’t worry, they seem to be fresh tampons and

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How can you use Photoshop to create all the artwork you need for a website? Now you can learn the inside techniques to use Photoshop for designing website and web graphics following this eight lesson tutorial series by a College Instructor, with classroom examples and exercises. Animations? You bet. Mock up a website? Sure... you'll lea

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This is one man's view of his wife's work as a professional artist. It's personal, it's promotional, it's insightful.

Nickola McCoy's art is collected around the world and after many years she finally launches a solo show in her homeland in

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When marketing your products, do you use the phrases OOAK or Unique? Are you overusing those two descriptive phrases to the point of hurting the saleability of that special product you are trying to market? Do you use either of these phrases with your product descriptions? Join the discussion and help others decide if these ter

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books -- that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arrange

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One of the biggest problems that artists face is not having the security of a regular wage and the benefits that go along with regular employment such as a pension. A group of investors and art collectors have taken a major step towards greater financial security for artists by starting the Artist Pension Trust (http://www.aptg

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