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Improve your home with a framed canvas print

Posted by kristin on Oct 7, 2009 in Framed canvas print

Have you ever considered how much better your home would look with a great big picture of your family in it? Thanks to modern technology, getting this done is as easy as pie! You don’t need to pay some street artist an exhorbitant amount of money and spend days sitting in poses in order to leave such a keepsake for future generations. Instead, you can put a digital photo on canvas for much less time and money.

The first thing you will want to do is get a very good picture of your family. A digital camera is most convenient for this. Make sure that when you take the picture that you set the resolution on its highest level. Take as many shots as you can convince your family to sit through in order to maximize the possibility that one is good enough for posterity. Then you can put this digital photo on canvas through one of many services that are now available.

Of course, it might be that you have pictures of your ancestors that you want to turn into wall art, but it is almost as easy to put black and white photos on canvas as it is to put digital photos on canvas. If you have a scanner, make sure you set it to at least 300 dots-per-inch when you scan the photo. Or you can take the picture to one of the many stores that will scan your black and white photograph for you, and they will certainly be able to calibrate the scanner properly. Once the picture has been digitized by the scanner, you can treat it the same way you would treat a picture taken with a digital camera.

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How Artists Enlarge Photos On Canvas

Posted by kristin on Oct 7, 2009 in Enlarge photos on canvas

Painting is one of the hobbies of the tattoo artist, Martin Del Camino, whose works are usually collages of different cultures. The Argentinean artist who also owns the Ichiban Tattoo Studio, 1912 Mass says that he tries to combine eating and painting, and has a flair for the Japanese art of tattooing Eastern images on the body which he reproduces as black and white photos on canvas or enlarge photos on canvas. Many other artist colleagues from different nations are also expected to exhibit their work at the ‘number one’ Ichiban ‘Untitled Art Show’. Tonks, a photographer, specializes on representing meaningful digital photos on canvas such that they have a hidden meaning.

Del Camino, who has been in this field since 1992, took up a college course on graphic design with acrylic and watercolor painting, but was gradually attracted towards tattooing. He used Japanese brushes or needles instead of markers.

With tattooing becoming more and more popular in the US, and people wanting more and more areas of their body covered with art, tattoo artists are gaining equal respect and are treated similar to professional painters and sculptors do. People are quickly learning how to differentiate between real tattoo artist and the fake imitators out there.

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