Archive for October, 2011

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We are happy to announce that our 3D panoramic oil paintings galleries are now also available on Facebook. You find our 3D oilpainting application if you click this link. We hope you like it.
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We are proud to announce that we have added a German and French language version of our oilpainting shop which you find in the Oil Paintings Art Shop pull down menu. We also now serving 26 European countries within the Amazon fullfilment network. Delivery can be made to the following countries: Germany France Spain...
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The oldest known extant oil paintings date from 650 anno domini, found in 2008 in caves in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley.  using walnut and poppy seed oils. Early oil painting works were panel paintings on wood. Canvas became more popular at the end of th 15th century. Before the invention of photography, people commonly hired painters and...
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We successfully launched our first Kickstarter project in the US. Its all about Gustav Klimt, the famous Austrian symbolist painter. The main idea about the project is combining Gustav Klimt season greetings together with an interactive 3D walk-through museum. Every card includes an access code to the 150th Gustav Klimt anniversary online museum where...
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Our new collection of oil paintings is now online in our 3D oil paintings gallery. Mona Lisa is guiding you through the oil painting galleries and tells you facts and tips about art oil paintings, their history and information about the process and techniques of canvas paintings. Click here to enter our 3D oil painting...
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It is believed that the modern use of the phrase stems from an article by Fred R. Barnard in the advertising trade journal Printers’ Ink, promoting the use of images in advertisements that appeared on the sides of streetcars. Especially with paintings in your rooms you can express feelings, tell stories or create a...
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Fact-checking the famous Article source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/graphic/2011/oct/08/infomania-alan-partridge
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The Gless family have been in Los Angeles for generations and no one ever left. We have five streets named after us. When my husband, Barney, retired, we moved to Miami, but I still have a house in Los Angeles. I would never give up my roots there. My grandfather was Neil S McCarthy,...
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All wars have casualties, and it’s safe to say that, plotwise, the first world war has taken a terrible toll on Downton Abbey (Sun, 9pm, ITV1). Plots: the place is swimming in them. Plots everywhere. I can’t breathe for them. Oh how I long for sleepy prewar Downton, where footage of a rotund-bottomed labrador...
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