Our homes reveal a lot about us. That is why wall art is one of the things you should incorporate in order to bring about the best effect. These wall arts are beautiful, easy to install and can go on for years if you maintain them right. There are a number of stylish and elegant options you can go for. CanvasDezign provides you one of the best choices you can have in the field of wall art. You can even consider wall stickers when you are looking for a simple and elegant way to decorate your walls. CanvasDezign has one of the best collections of wall stickers you can get. These wall stickers create a wonderful effect that can be used to make your walls come alive. You can use these wall stickers in the living room, the nursery or even the bathroom. The best thing about it is that you do not need to be an expert when you are putting up these wall arts. The only things you need are a piece of cloth and a smooth surface to stick the wall sticker on. Putting up these wall stickers would help you create an effect that is both stunning and long lasting.

The wall stickers from CanvasDezign are available in convenient packs of 100*70cm sheets. These wall stickers also come with their special instruction sets so that you face no difficulties in setting them up. Take a look at our online catalogue and you will realize why we are the most popular choice when it comes to wall stickers. You can set them up very easily and remove them easily as well. This is very convenient when you want to add another wall sticker for a change. You can even get a different look altogether if you take these wall stickers to a different area of the house.

Alternatively, you can also use canvas prints as an aesthetic wall art. You can choose between two options when you are doing this. You can either opt for your photos to be printed on canvas. Alternatively, you can also choose a design from our online collection of abstract, geometric and floral prints and have them transformed into wonderful wall art pieces. There are a number of choices you can go for when it comes to wall art. You can go for any style- whether it is conservative or bright.

You can order for these beautiful wall arts pieces online. Just upload your photo so that we can offer you a preview of what your picture will look like when it is transformed into a wall art. Once you have agreed to the specifications, we will have your personal wall art framed, mounted and set to be hung up on your walls. We can do this online, so there is no need for you to visit the stores on a daily basis.

So, next time you are thinking about getting a wall art, come to canvasdezign.co.uk you will be fascinated by the elegance and style we can add to your walls.

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You glance across a crowded room and suddenly, there it is, your dream come true.  You could be in a gallery, at an art in the park, at your local library exhibition, or at a Studio Tour & Art Sale.  It is just exquisite.  You have to have it.  You have looked at so many original paintings over so many years and none of them has struck you the way this particular one does.  You go up to it and it becomes even more desirable.  What is it that this painting has, that all the rest do not?  What is the hook that the artist has managed to build into the art work?

Interestingly enough it is often not even the subject matter that weaves a spell on the viewer, although of course, if waterfalls with birch on a rocky terrain captures your imagination or spark a poignant memory, you will examine the piece more closely.  However, it is oftentimes the secret scaffolding that the artist works with that wins the viewer over.  In fact, as might be said in Newfoundland, “it makes me no never mind” whether it is an abstract, figurative, landscape or floral work.

So what then you ask?  It is a case of dominance – there is a dominant color or color theme and this color theme is repeated around the painting to lead the eye around the picture plane and not let it escape.  And, often it is not a multitude of colors, but perhaps a more subtle grouping of colors, harmonious colors, analogous colors, hues next to each other on the color wheel or for a major impact, complementary colors which are the colors on the opposite sides of the color wheel. Thinking in terms of holidays makes it easy:  Easter is yellow and purple, Christmas is red and green and half of Halloween is orange, then add blue.

Perhaps the artist has researched the colors of the season by visiting model homes or looking at the newest expensive paint chips at a ritzy paint store and found exactly the right ones that you have used in your new renovation, addition, or furniture choice.  Certainly the colors of a season are no accident and the home industries work closely together so that they too present clients with “the perfect color choices that work so well together”.

The composition of a painting is of paramount importance.  There needs to be a dominant value, a light, dark or mid tone.  There needs to a dominant shape within the work that is a largest, a medium and a small shape.  Furthermore, there are negative and positive spaces to put into the mix and the edges of shapes can be hard, soft and have interesting incidents along the lines surrounding the shapes.

The direction of the work counts:  there needs to be a dominant direction, whether vertical, horizontal or diagonal.  Not only does a painting need to have dominant features, but it also needs to have just a bit of conflict, such as the diagonal lines in a predominantly horizontal art work.

This leads the artist to devise secret passageways to a carefully built in focal point.  If the viewer follows a diagonal secret path up into the distance and there is nothing there, obviously the viewer is disappointed.  A focal point or focal area is certainly one element that captures the viewer and causes that viewer to fall in love with a painting.  Focal points can be placed in one of four quadrants, but not really recommended right in the center of a painting. They are sometimes living things, sometimes the point of greatest contrast, the biggest, the brightest colour, the destination in a painting that all secret passageways lead to.

And what is the most fascinating element is that the price point is most frequently the last piece of the puzzle.  If the love is great enough the art work will go home with that viewer no matter what it takes to get it.  Many artists have payment plans to help collectors acquire their original art and all the serious client has to do is ask.

It, however, remains a mystery how the creative process works for the artist of your favourite painting and the completed art work has conjured up the magical combination of all the elements and principles of art to produce an exceptional original painting that strikes you, the viewer, with a desire to have that piece. So, love at first sight is certainly valid in the selection of a painting.  After all, we know what we like, we just may not know why.

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