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Rembrandt Season

Rembrandt Season

On this Winter Solstice, temperatures have been somewhat typical here in Michigan. December always seems to be a bit of a roller-coaster ride of weather here as winter starts to assert its dominance. Not quite the winter wonderland yet, but trees have certainly...

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Wall art spike during the pandemic

Wall art spike during the pandemic

One of my regular keyword research tools is well-known Google Trends. It helps in relative comparisons of one phrase vs. another. While it doesn't give you the actual search volume of a term, it will give you a comparison on a scale over time. It can tell you, for...

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Martian River

Martian River

A question I often struggle with when working with abstracts is when it comes to the name. Do I label it with what it is, or what I imagined it is? Words accompanying any art can be quite suggestive. And while part of me wants the viewer to interpret what such...

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Does Provenance matter?

Does Provenance matter?

A few years into selling prints, I began to ask myself this very question when it comes to my photographs.   Provenance being basically a historical record of the origins of the image, and if printed, the media and process used to produce the print.   If the...

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Styles come, styles go

My wife Lisa recently treated me for my birthday (Go Capricorns!) to the exhibit that is just closing this weekend at the Detroit Institute of Arts: Monet to Dali.   It is somewhat hard to describe the feeling of seeing the actual brushstrokes of some of these masters...

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