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Some of northern Europe's greatest artists used oil and brush to set the mood that many associate with the Little Ice Age: snowy and dank. In a recent study by NHans Neuberger covering 12,000 paintings produced between 1400 and 1667, he found that blue skies, which predominated up to 1550, gave way to low clouds in more than half of the post-1550 paintings.

Akiane Kramarik's paintings have sold for up to $1 million. She has been a guest of the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, and Good Morning America. Her two bestselling books are "Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry" and "My Dream Is Bigger Than I - Memories of Tomorrow". Although she has quite an impressive resume under her belt, you might be surprised to learn she's still a child.

The creation, imagery and vandalism of Leonardo da Vinci's great painting, the Mona Lisa.

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Paintings and drawings that are perfect looking copies can appear mechanical and lifeless. In the search for perfection be careful that you aren't missing the key ingredient all artists should search for

Many of us have at some time or the other satiated our artistic desires by coloring using the paint with numbers concept.

Contrary to still life paintings and portraits, landscape paintings never fail to excite people.

Art is a very personal thing. One person likes landscapes, others like portraits, others have different styles- Impressionism, Realism, Pointillism and they are all meaningful in their own ways to different people - or even the same person depending upon where they are in the timeline of their life.

The cliff, however, was a key part of the piece. and the space between the flower and the cliff just connected the two, but left enough space to distinguish them as well. The fact that the flower and cliff were both drawn on the left, made you think that the space to the right of the cliff could be almost bottomless, giving the painting both a beautiful and strong tone.