Artist Community of MyBestCanvas

One of many online galleries is MyBestCanvas.com - Art forum & artists community offering oil paintings signed by painters from USA & Europe. Just looking at the collections would be a relaxing escape in the middle of your routine activities at the office. And maybe you will find a piece of work of art there that goes with the ambiance of your living room.
I found this simple yet beautiful painting on the site, titling "Old is Gold" (2006,Mixed Media on Canvas , 50x25cm), painted by Sarika Soman, a female artist who was born in the vibrant and colorful country of India. Her works have been exhibited in U.S, Germany and India.
If you are an artist, maybe you'll be interested in joining the artist community of MyBestCanvas.

Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice (Book)

Book Description
An atelier program between the covers of a book
* Serious techniques for the serious art student
* Study the work of the Old Masters and today’s top realist artists
* In the tradition of Watson-Guptill’s classic Drawing Lessons from the Old Masters

Ateliers have produced the greatest artists of all time--and now that educational model is experiencing a renaissance. These studios, a return to classical art training, are based on the nineteenth-century model of teaching artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period of years. Students begin by copying masterworks, then gradually progress to painting as their skills develop. Classical Drawing Atelier is an atelier in a book--and the master is Juliette Aristides, a classically trained artist. On every page, Aristides uses the works of works of Old Masters and today’s most respected realist artists to demonstrate and teach the principles of realist drawing and painting, taking students step by step through the learning curve yet allowing them to work at their own pace. Unique and inspiring, Classical Drawing Atelier is a serious art course for serious art students.

About the Author
Juliette Aristides, whose beautiful art is featured throughout this book, is the founder and director of the Classical Atelier at the Seattle Academy of Fine Arts. She studied with realist master Jacob Collins and at the National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

See more info or buy this book.

Product Details
* Hardcover: 144 pages
* Author: Juliette Aristides
* Publisher: Watson-Guptill (October 13, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0823006573
* ISBN-13: 978-0823006571
* Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 9.1 x 0.8 inches

Beauty of Mirror Art

A kind of art to be considered for room decoration is Mirror Art. Like what these people do. They create wonderful pictures by hand from pieces of broken mirror. The unique fact about this art is, that every work cannot be duplicated simply due to the fact that every piece of mirror is broken and not cut. Sometimes the outcome of each image is pre-conceived or comes together by chance. The concept of beauty here is achieved by letting the pieces fall where they may.
The surface of the mirror pieces reflect lights and everything else in the surroundings. In other words, one mirror work of art can achieve different forms in different surroundings with different lightings.

images belongs to http://www.breakingpanes.com/