Unlike standard artwork, canvas prints are not printed onto paper and as the name obviously implies, they are printed onto canvas. The canvas is then stretched around a hard wooden frame to provide a stunning effect with no visible frame.
Just why is it that big brand named companies are now choosing canvas prints over traditional art?
One of the main reasoning for this transition is that canvas art provides such a stunning effect. A well chosen canvas can add beauty to any room. Thanks to technology, any type of picture can be transferred onto canvas; they can be used to show emotion, events or simply a company’s promotional message or logo. A perfect canvas print has the ability to make people stop and stare, just like fine art but with the advantage of being a lot less expensive.
Here are some creative ideas for canvas art and prints:
1. Make your own artwork – With modern technology such as Photoshop, it is getting increasingly easy to edit your own art and photos by means of a computer. Have you created a virtual masterpiece? Bring it to life in the form of a canvas print for everyone to admire!
2. Enhance your family photos – Using Photoshop you can do a multitude of things to your photos, including but not limited to: resizing, cropping, removing certain items and you can even remove the entire background! It is also possible to add special effects such as the famous pop-art effect or exotic backdrops to your photos.
3. Holiday photos – Did you take a sensational snapshot of some foreign extravagance last time you went on holiday? Would you like to re-live it every time you wake up? Simply upload your photo to your computer, edit it if you need to, and then send it off to be professionally printed. Within a couple of days you could be waking up to a memory of your favourite holiday.
4. Use Stock photos – Not quite the artist yourself but fancy some unique art? Luckily there are artists willing to sell or even give away their art online for you to print onto canvas! Just check there aren’t any copyrights before you print anything.
One thing that hasn’t been mentioned yet is the cost of all this and most people are pleasantly surprised to find out that they can purchase one of these canvases for as little as twenty pounds. In comparison to traditional art, these prices are really inexpensive which means it is no wonder that so many people are choosing canvas prints to decorate their home.
Some recent research has even found that a high quality canvas print will outlast traditional photographs. Normal photographs fade after about twenty years whereas a high quality canvas can maintain its colour for an average of seventy years! Using some of these great ideas can easily turn a room into an art gallery.
It is our belief that everyone should understand the true beauty that is achievable through canvas printing.
By: James Horton
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Creative Ideas for Canvas Art
September 19th, 2009Capture Life in Colours With Canvas Prints
September 16th, 2009Can you imagine, just for a second, how dull we could feel, if our eyes perceived everything in black and white. Colors have great effect on us as well as beautiful, life music and nice smell. It is very important to choose the right color combination to achieve its magical effect. Various experiments have been conducted in this regard and it has been proven that a person can lose the sense of time, experience a burst or loss of energy, as well as lose track of things around him.
Nowadays canvas prints have become very popular to all the ages. They can easily transform an ordinary photo into a real masterpiece, which has a beautiful nature texture visible to the eye. This masterful artistic effect can only be achieved with canvas. You can commemorate dear events, views, places and bright outlines of your past captured onto canvas prints to relive them later in future. Canvassing pictures of old times which is known as vintage style art, can be preserved for ages. Thanks to various software which is used to modify the image the process of canvassing allows us to change and alter the initial photos making them looking really funny and weird and making you smile whenever you see it.
Canvas prints can be used for wall arts as well and any good canvas printer can offer you the following options: 5 Panel Sets, 3 Panel Sets, Acrylic Art, Abstract Prints, Floral Flair Paint, Pop Art Prints and Emotive Scene Prints.
Best gifts
If you really want to give an unusual but interesting gift, canvas print would be a good idea. And no matter where you go, to an anniversary, birthdays, weddings, the right canvas print could be the most extraordinary and remarkable gift for various occasions. Pictures of celebrities can be canvassed into the gifts for their fans, the bride and groom captured together onto canvas, pictures of ancestors looking back at you onto canvas might give their descendants flash back feelings of their family history, people who adore their pets, like dogs, cats, birds can get a canvas print of their pets. And there can be no doubt about that you will realize the true joy of gift-giving.
Thanks to digital technology
Thanks to digital technology and magnificent colour combinations you can obtain canvas prints of any enhancement and they can be in grayscale, the printed pictures would be in black and white, Sepia Effects make the printed picture becomes brownish, giving it an authentic look., Pop arts effect as well as any edge type such as Black Edges, Photo Wrap, White Edges and Grey Edges etc. It is also possible to enlarge your photograph on canvas in any size you want from 12×18” to 48×60”.
Services, services, services and how to deal with them
It is very easy to get a custom canvas art via the internet; you can find a great deal of such companies which offer you their services. Among them you can find cheap canvas printing services as well as those who offer their services at a higher price but higher quality is also guaranteed in such cases. And it is up to you to decide which one is suitable for you. However, you must make sure and verify that the company you are going to deal with is legal and not a soap bubble. You can verify the legality of these companies; just look them up in local chamber of commerce. These companies offer you a “customer sales satisfaction guarantee” and “money back guarantee” in the event of receiving the canvas prints not according to the agreement.
By: Alexander Lamb
