How To Use Your Least Favourite Colour!

How To Use Your Least Favourite Colour!

Which is the most popular colour? Colour is a strongly motivational phenomenon, and it has a huge influence on our choices and moods. For both men and women, blue is the most popular colour. Orange is the least attractive colour for women, while brown is the most...
The Title Font

The Title Font

Contemporary fashions play a big part in the title font styling. Choosing the title font for your children’s book cover should take into account current publishing trends. Self-publishers have to be especially careful to achieve a professional result. They want...
Designing Children’s Book Covers

Designing Children’s Book Covers

For self-publishers, designing children’s book covers can be a huge challenge. The front cover of a book for young children has to stand up well to intense competition from other books on sale alongside. Somehow, it needs to be individual enough to attract the...
Self-Publishing a Children’s Picture Book

Self-Publishing a Children’s Picture Book

Preparing the Book If you have written a children’s picture book, it is now possible for you to publish it yourself, without having to find a commercial publisher. The weak point here is that your story will not be subjected to any professional scrutiny. It is...
How Photography Has Influenced Art

How Photography Has Influenced Art

Photography has had both positive and negative effects on art. Traditionally, artists were relied on to record how things looked. Patrons commissioned portraits, paintings of their homes and lands, and even their favourite horses and dogs. This can be seen in the work...
Surface Pattern in Interior Design

Surface Pattern in Interior Design

Even the dullest interior can be brightened up with the right surface pattern. A tiny space looks much more interesting if its walls are papered with a good choice of surface design. And the mood of any room is lifted by a pattern with attractive colours and motifs....
A Timeline of Interior Design

A Timeline of Interior Design

Interior Design from Ancient Civilisations People have strived to make the interiors of their homes beautiful and comfortable since the earliest times. The ancient Chinese, Indus (India), and Greeks all had their own distinctive interior design style for decorating...
Red Shades

Red Shades

Red is a warm, rich colour. Although it is associated with danger and revolution, it can also express wealth and opulence. In the RGB colour model, red is a primary colour. Additionally, it can be made from magenta and yellow in the CMYK colour model. For painting,...
The Limited Palette

The Limited Palette

So many varied and beautiful paint colours are available for contemporary artists that it seems counter-intuitive to limit them. But painting with a limited palette can make a work of art more powerful and effective. For example, a picture with a palette of varied...
Striped Designs

Striped Designs

Bold Stripes One of the simplest basic patterns is a row of different coloured stripes. Striped designs are often bold and striking, such as our Goldcrest Gallery fine art print, ‘Fairway’. Even though the green colours chosen for this design are cool and...