Having owned five Thomas Kinkade Signature Galleries for ten years I can tell you that Ebay is loaded up with fake Kinkade Paintings. It can be confusing for the novice to discern an authentic painting from an...
you're engaged, how exciting! OK, you've got the perfect man and a gorgeous ring on your finger. Now what?Here is a handy checklist of ideas for budgeting, planning, and organizing gleaned from our years...
How to Plan a Theme Wedding Choose a Theme Wedding that relates to your relationship and that you think will be romantic and fun! If you are happy about your theme and enthusiastic, so will be your guests! The...
Before you pay an incredibly low price for what looks like a stunning piece of Deruta pottery, STOP and read this short guide. You'll learn how to spot genuine hand made Italian pottery. Don't waste your money...
Charleston, SC, Author Edwin DuBose Heyward (1885-1940) , best known as the author of the novel PORGY (1925), which he and his wife Dorothy transformed into a stage play, which in turn he and George ...
My friends and family often ask me why so many artists paint (as they say) "naked people". Some think that the nude is only an excuse for pornography, while others just think that it's out-dated in the art...
Candles have a long and interesting history in religious worship, magic and folklore. They light the way to the sacred; they dispel the forces of darkness; they are associated with ghosts and the dead; they...
My painting technique, and my philosophy, can be described in one word – light. The Old Renaissance Masters, like Da Vinci and Rembrandt, recognized that light is the reflection of nature, of life itself....
I recall when I first became interested in Kabbalah in 1969. There were very few books on the topic available at that time: a couple by Gershom Scholem, a few on Hasidic legend by Martin Buber (some of which...
The famous singing von Trapp family, portrayed in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound Of Music and in the motion picture based on that musical play, were similarly unlike."Doesn't make sense,"you may say?...