She says, “To paint the hidden beauty in ordinary things and to bring out the magical side of my subjects is what inspires me. I’ve always been a painter and, am mainly self-taught through having a full life of experiences. There is a powerful force behind everything, and what I aspire to do is to capture those qualities in my art.”

A few keywords for Liz Slick images: dog, flowers, sun, nature, sky, fun, happy, whimsical, orange, yellow, black, clovers, clouds, leaves, plants, figurative, pink, red, animals, princess, castle, children, book, fairytale, magic, celestial, bright, green, blue, purple, costumes, figurative, women.

BY THE SEA COLLECTION
I live by the sea on the southern shore of Cape Cod and experience daily its changes and passions throughout the 4 seasons. Its easy to be inspired by the various objects, colors, weather conditions and light changes that the sea offers daily.

The images shown in this collection reflect that inspiration which Ive tried to capture to show the playfulness and creative spirit living By The Sea offers the imagination.

Much of this work was created with a wide variety of applications in mind such as prints, tiles, aprons, greeting cards, gift bags for a wide variety of decorative uses kids of all ages in the home, office, restaurants and other spaces.

CHILDREN’S COLLECTION
For some reason, Im attracted to the broad area of art for children, probably because of the playfulness, color and freedom that indulges one. Having worked on K-12 reading programs and with four children of my own for inspiration may have helped.

The images in this collections reflect that inspiration and were created initially just for kids to decorate their rooms with prints, murals and wallpaper, and also for the kitchen and bath. I also discovered a myriad of other applications such as art deco and contemporary for tiles, gift bags, trays, t-shirts, aprons, greeting cards, plus decorative uses in schools, day care, stores and other spaces.

CREATURES COLLECTION
Its fun using birds and animals as a creative theme because of their varied and interesting shapes, color patterns and personalities from peaceful, humorous to scary.

The images shown were initially created to meet different needs such as for paintings or illustration, but ultimately tied together as a related series for prints, wall art and contemporary or art deco designs for the bath, kitchen and other spaces both residential and commercial.

Additional apps include tiles, aprons, greeting cards, gift bags for a wide variety of decorative uses and potentially expanded to include additional images in the series

SPORTS COLLECTION
Having been a high school and college athlete, plus a life long tennis player and skier, the attraction of sports to art came easy for me. My first big push came with the tennis boom that followed open tennis by developing graphics to decorate tennis and health clubs with murals or large framed images of players in action. This led into skiing and ultimately running and the other major pro and amateur sports.

Ive always experimented with graphics in the darkroom and especially after the birth of the Mac. These images reflect some of my work originally designed as samples for murals in gyms and health clubs, graphics for marketing materials and to illustrate book and magazine covers.

They have numerous contemporary applications such as t-shirts, posters, calendars, prints, wall art, flags, trays, sports clubs, aprons, cards, gifts bags and anywhere a sports theme is applicable and also be used as a style for developing custom designs.

SQUARES COLLECTION
These images were purposely created to fit a square format. Other images are available or can be created to meet this shape.

They were originally designed to fit a square framing support to decorate spaces with a series of images. They can easily be adapted to other applications for kids, teens and adults of all ages for aprons, wall art, tiles, aprons, greeting cards, gift bags or where colorful and interesting contemporary or art deco
images are needed.

ArtVisions™ fine art licensing “Image Selection 2011″ is the solution for your Art licensing and Design creation requirements. Artworks have been especially selected from our extensive catalog of images for your use on decor products, murals, wallcoverings, calendars, puzzles, giftware, table-top, home-accent, cards, note cards, textiles and prints.

We specialize in art licensing for:

• Note Cards
• Giftware
• Calendars
• Puzzles
• Textiles
• Small Prints
• Table Top/Home Accent

The characters depicted in the collection share the same stylistic features and general mannerisms, but display distinct personalities, portrayed in different settings and poses.

All artwork created in a mixed media (watercolor, color pencil and acrylic on paper). Style of these illustrations is a fusion of naive simplicity and exquisite sophistication. Kitchen theme, and culinary subject matter are sources of inspiration for this set of artwork.

This collection of artwork is available in varioust rendering of backgrounds and can be fit into portrait or landscape layouts – the original design is square.

These wonderful little cooks are appropriate for a variety of products and are illustrated here as a birthday card.

Kid Cooks by Irina V. Ivanova

About Irina V. Ivanova
Born in Ukraine, Irina studied art from the time she was in middle school. By the time Irina started her college education, she already had 10 years of art education. Passionate about fashion, she studied fashion design, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the field of textile/fashion design.

Irina currently works as a visual artist in her studio in Florida, and teaches at the Fashion Design Department of the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale.

ArtVisions™ fine art licensing is proud to be exclusive licensing agent for Irina V. Ivanova. For more information, or to license art, please use the Contact Form on the ArtVisions.com website.

The symbolic art created by Laura Sue appeals to both men and women alike. From her creations of the infamous Birds on a Wire to her new series Birds and Books, Laura Sue emphasizes contemporary intelligent art.

Her iconic art has been featured on major television network shows including HGTV’s ‘Selling New York’ & ABC’s ‘Better With You’, and of course, can be found in public and private collections and exhibits

The high demand for her artwork has inspired her to create unique new techniques that no other can reproduce. Her special techniques result in a style that has gained recognition in both traditional and non-traditional art circles.

Laura Sue’s formal art training was at the University of North Dakota. She continued her education in Europe. Now residing in the Nashville, Tennessee area, she has also lived through out the United States studying under her greatest mentor, The Earth.

WHAT THEY SAY

ArtVisions™ fine art licensing is proud to be exclusive licensing agent for Laura Sue. For more information, or to license art, please use the Contact Form on the ArtVisions.com website.

Available for licensing – Fine artist and fashion design professional Irina V. Ivanova has just released a series of delightful Fairy images.

All images in this unique collection of exquisite paintings are are done in high-fashion style. Irina has agreed to make the series available for licensing exclusively through ArtVisions™ fine art licensing.

At the moment there are twelve paintings, all have been professionally scanned, and high-resolution digital files will be available for the lucky licensee.

Irina’s years of experience as a designer in the fashion industry, first as a leading artist, and later as the art director of a fashion house, gives her a practical appreciation of markets and trends. Her experience and her savvy design sense make her art a sure-fire winner.

We think these marvelous images are a natural for notecards/greetings, stationery and other paper products, fine art prints, and a myriad of other products

ArtVisions™ is proud to be exclusive licensing agent for Irina V. Ivanova. For more information, or to license art, please use the Contact Form on the ArtVisions.com website.

BELLEVUE, WA USA
ArtVisions™ New Dynamic Art Website Quickly Delivers Art.

Fine art licensing agency ArtVisions launches completely revamped web site. According to ArtVisions President, Neil Miller, the new design, “…makes it easy to view a lot of art very quickly”. Visitors can select a category (style/subject matter) from our Eclectic Mix of interesting art for viewing and quickly see thumbnail images for the category.

This is the sixth major web site overhaul since 1994, each taking into account visitor comments and incorporating improved usability features.

Miller notes that, concurrent with the update “we have also updated the mix of artists in our representation pool (we don’t keep artists in a ‘stable’)”. Additionally, ArtVisions is displaying several new images ready for licensing.

About ArtVisions
ArtVisions focuses on cheerful, colorful art targeted toward the “popular” art, decor, calendar, table-top, greetings, puzzle and wall mural markets.

dpi is NOT THE SAME as ppi

Quite frequently, “dots per inch” (dpi) and “pixels per inch” (ppi) are [incorrectly] used interchangeably by people who do not understand the difference between viewing on a monitor (“ppi”) and producing a print on paper or some other substrate (“dpi”).

In essence, you can “touch” dots, but you can only “see” pixels (for example, when rendered electronically on a monitor).

PIXELS

LCD monitors display pictures in millions of pixels, arranged in rows and columns. A pixel on a monitor is a single point in a graphic image. The pixels are placed close together so that they appear connected.

One full pixel actually is a combination of one red, one green, and one blue sub-pixel (“RGB” = Red, Green Blue). Programs such as Photoshop describe images in terms of pixel dimensions.

DOTS

DPI (Dots per Inch) has nothing to do with your image file. DPI refers to how many drops of ink per square inch are used on paper to print an image. BUT, the sizes available for creating a HIGH QUALITY print are completely dependent on the size of the digital file that you create. Known as output resolution, optimum results for printing process require anywhere from 200 PPI to 300 PPI.

Print Quality and Pixel Dimensions

PPI does not affect the print size of an image; it affects the print QUALITY at a particular size. A 240~360 ppi scan = High quality 1200~2880+ dpi print. For example, a 300ppi scan @ 4″ would produce a high quality 4″ print – but the same high resolution file would produce a low quality 16″ print.

We need to assure that our licensee clients are able to create high quality products from our art. That is why we require professionally made high-resolution files at the dimensions of the original artwork.

Contact

For more information about ArtVisions™ fine art licensing, or to license art, please use the Contact Form on the ArtVisions.com website.

About Lee Peterson

Lee says it best in his own words: “Although I have been taking photographs most of my life my goal has never altered. My vision of life is a dream and I can use photography to reveal those dreams. My photographic translations can last for years and never seem to be finished. They seem to evolve as I progress…

He continues, “My photography can be categorized into many styles; street photography and abstract concepts, travel, nature, commercial and advertising, also highly technical styles where custom lenses or set-ups are required. I love the diversity because I am always learning from new adventures. I like to climb the mountain of creativity. I learned from my father that some mistakes are worth repeating and not to be afraid of trying. It is the process of learning and progress that inspires me the most…

I see the world in visual metaphors and moods and through the use of photography record the happiness, sadness, abstraction and concreteness of the world we live on as it hurls in orbit around a star in space.

Peace on Earth or the Earth in little pieces.”

Lee Peterson

Canadian artist, Gigi Hoeller is a prolific painter, her varied body of work includes intricate abstracts, multicolored landscapes and eye-catching “macro florals”.

She says, “The paintings I create are meant to evoke the silence and pure potential within our mind, body and soul.”The purpose of her creations are to link, “…the physical with the spiritual, forming a common boundary between solids (the physical) and the spaces that cannot be seen (the spiritual).”

Gigi has completed numerous seminars and specialized studies at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design as well as the Studio Art Program at Capilano College.

ArtVisions™ fine art licensing is proud to be exclusive licensing agent for Gigi Hoeller. For more information, or to license art, please use the Contact Form on the ArtVisions.com website.

Nicole Gomez received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and also studied at the Lorenzo de’ Medici School of Art in Florence, Italy. Her work has been seen in galleries around the world, including Richmond, VA, and Gdansk, Poland.

Nicole primarily paints commissioned works but also does illustration, design and gallery work. She currently lives and works in Richmond, VA.

Her clients include prominent national and regional magazines, government agencies and others.

ArtVisions™ fine art licensing is proud to be exclusive licensing agent for Nicole Gomez. For more information, or to license art, please use the Contact Form on the ArtVisions.com website.