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  • Beginner's Guide To Quilting - Some Basic Things To Learn
    By: Carolyn Anderson | - If you are amazed by the gorgeous patterns of quilt and you want to try your hands on it, you can actually learn it pretty easily. With the right tools, a beginner's guide to quilting to and a great design, you can start making your own.

    Quilts are made by attaching and sewing together patches and layers of fabric materials to make a large quilt. You can also add a batting to your quilt to make it more comfortable and warm especially if you are making a quilt for your bed.
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  • How Women's Clothing Has Evolved Through Time
    By: Claire Armstrong | - Women's clothing has evolved through the years. Nowadays, if you take just one single glimpse away from the magazines and fashion shows, you will find that things have already changed. How trends are determined is still unclear, but if you travel back in time to study how women used to dress, you will realise that some designers derive inspiration from fashion in the past. In order to gain a better understanding about how women dress, and how modern designers come up with their ideas, you might ...
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  • Platform Boots Are Sexy And Comfortable
    By: MITH | - If you want to add a little height to your look, while allowing your feet to stay comfortable all day long, you may want to wear a pair of platform boots the next time you go out. Platform boots are great for any woman who loves the look of high heels but the feel of flat boots. If you need to do a lot of walking or standing, you want to make sure that your feet stay comfortable, but that doesn't mean you have to slack on style. You can easily get comfort and fashion in a pair of these boots!

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  • Paintings And Art's Famous Styles
    By: Mary Pierce | - Cubism is a style where the Paintings are not supposed to look real. This style is characterized because the painters use geometric shapes to show what they are trying to paint. Maybe, you don't know but one of the most celebrated painters of the history develops the Cubism, he is the Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso. Marc Chagall and Georges Braque were other popular Cubism's exponents. According to the experts, Cubism was the beginning of the Abstract style.


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  • Top 10 Structured Functional And Altered Water Products Everyone Should Avoid
    By: Dr. David Wheeler, DC | - I have determined that there are ten categories of water products that can be defined as altered. The term altered is in contrast to natural that is associated with M-Water. The eleventh category is high quality clean drinking water. The twelfth category is M-Water and is the only natural water created with technology based on duplicating the forces of nature under ideal circumstances to create what I often refer to as Perfect Living Water.

    Over the past several years my opinions ab ...

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  • Rose Centerpiece Ideas: How To Create Rose Centerpieces
    By: Dee Power | - Modern roses are easy to grow with few requirements. They need eight hours of sun a day, rich soil, and moist but not soggy soil. Roses are available year round at Florists. Grocery store floral departments often offer roses at bargain prices in a wide variety of colors. So what can you do with all those roses? Here are several rose centerpiece ideas.

    Topiary
    A topiary is a plant that is clipped in geometric shapes or other fanciful designs. One of the most common is the l ...

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  • An Architectural Echo: Antique Art Deco Engagement Ring
    By: Douglas M. Parks | - Antique art deco engagements rings take after the architectural design of the period, art deco. Known for its use of geometric shapes and colors, the architecture of the period stood out for its unique flair. In the same way, antique art deco engagement rings show an eclectic style. They emerged from Paris, first introduced at the world's fair, increasing in popularity through the 1920's.

    Colorful Pieces of Art

    Antique art deco engagement rings look like pieces of ar ...

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  • The History Of Abstract Art
    By: Stephanie Shank | - The main form of art leading up to abstract art was impressionism. Impressionist artists blurred the lines between realism and expressionism, but didn't take it too far. Most of the time, the items or persons featured in impressionism were still identifiable, like in Monet's lily pads and Van Gogh's sunflowers. This form of art was closely tied with romanticism.
    In the end of the 19th century, towards the beginning of the 1900s, some artists didn't feel like impressionist artists were mak ...

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  • How Can I Choose Eye Glasses That Fit My Personality?
    By: Cheow Yu Yuan | - It's a well known fact that people recognize you by your face, so the eye glasses that you choose become a part of your identity. Whether you're the kind of person that wants to appear sophisticated or conservative, fun-loving or studious, the right eyewear can help you shape how you will be perceived by others. And if you're the kind of person that wears one set of frames for everything, from reading to driving, then you want it to speak about the kind of person you are!

    When it ...

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  • The Latest And Greatest In Bathrooms
    By: Joshua Drews | - As a sanctuary in the home: for the tired mum who wants to relax; calming an overactive toddler; or, if you're lucky, for a romantic escape. Our design ideas and products show you what's steaming up the bathroom. Gone are the days when the bathroom was simply somewhere to wash. Bathroom design now aims to achieve a spa-like sanctuary in the home. This season, the serious geometric and stark-white look of recent years is making way for organic shapes, modular options and the introduction of print ...
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  • Moccasins Are A Tribal Tradition
    By: Jack Landry | - Moccasins, originally made and worn by Native American Indians, have become a growing fashion trend and widespread phenomenon throughout the fashion industry today. There are many different styles and designs found on these modern day moccasins, and many can be traced back through history to their Native American roots.

    In the earliest days of "production" Native American women, or squaws would handcraft these shoes for their husbands and for themselves. The design of the shoe, a ...

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  • Invest In Sure Fire Fabulous Designs With These Timeless Diane Von Furstenberg Dresses
    By: MITH | -
    Diane von Furstenberg is known internationally for her ability to create beautiful designs that are timeless in appeal. Pricey? Yes. But trendy? No. These timeless Diane von Furstenberg dresses will stay in your closet for years. A worthwhile purchase because they will hug your figure in the most flattering way, and stay in style for decades.

    For a fun wrap dress that is reminiscent of Carrie Bradshaw in 'Sex and the City' pick up the Mini Silk dress with the allover print of ...

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  • What's Next With Online Print?
    By: Tony Goold | - It's mad its new and it is one of the fastest moving areas no the internet. print has never stood still and that continues on the internet. since the dawn of the internet people have looked at ways of profiting form it. so it is the website owners that should dictate the way forward.

    What is required by the non print literate is the provision of a simple to use tool that can be used to convert the complex native tools such as In-Design, QuarkXPress and MS Publisher in to an easier f ...

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  • Your Mind Power And Precognition
    By: Irwin Myers | - Your mind power is a basic term to consider for any of the various psychic talents available to you, such as precognition. Also known as future sight, precognition is the sudden acquisition of future information that is obtained through means that are currently scientifically unexplainable. This phenomenon is frequently categorized as a form of extra-sensory perception, or ESP, like clairvoyance. Despite being generally unaccepted by the scientific community, there is a lot of information on pre ...
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  • Art Deco Diamond Rings - Art Deco Diamond Designs
    By: Paul Easton | - As a reaction to Art Nouveau, the movement of the Art Deco pushed the envelope toward a more decorative era by the 1930s. Featuring a simpler yet bolder approach, this time gave birth to diamond rings in high profile styles.

    Art Deco jewelry especially the diamond rings flourished during the 1920's up to the Second World War. The peak of this golden age was very visible during the jazz age and most of the roaring parts of the twenties.

    The movement moved toward the new ...

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  • Affordable Furniture For All Your Decorating Needs
    By: Mary Pierce | - Talking about the furniture's business is talking about a prosperous business. The most common material to create furnishings is the popular wood; however, the metal and plastic also are alternatives to manufacture the same products. Designers of the entire world are dedicating to create new tendencies and Affordable furniture because there are some products really expensive. Finding your taste could be a complicated task due to the variety of products, for example, you can find chairs of divers ...
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  • Advantages Of Buying Handmade Jewellery
    By: Rebecca Leeson | - Whether you are looking for a unique and lovely gift for someone who is important to you, or whether you just want to find a piece of jewellery that matches your style and personality, why not look into commissioning a piece of handmade jewellery? When most people think of jewellery, they often end up choosing mass produced jewellery that is so common in the high street shops. Often, mass produced jewellery not only has quality issues, but you're also likely to find that everyone else is wearing ...
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  • Do Not Take Swimming Pool Construction For Granted
    By: Jeff Halper | - So, if you want to put in a pool or remodel an old one-where to start? Most people think of swimming pool companies, a natural assumption. Swimming pool companies are the people with the skill and expertise to actually build the pool. The construction begins with grading and excavating the site. This phase is followed by installing rebar, or reinforced steel, and the electrical and plumbing work. At this point, the pool is ready for the initial inspection. Once approved, the next step is to spra ...
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  • Black Tie Affair
    By: MITH | -
    Do you have a black tie event to go to but are not sure about what to wear for your actual tie? Fear not! There are a lot of different options that you can choose from when it comes to wearing a tie for such an upscale black tie event. You do not have to only wear a black bow tie! You have other options from solid black ties to printed ones, so choose one you feel most comfortable in.

    Bow Ties

    If you are going for the classy, refined look then you may want to sti ...

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  • Lawn Landscape Design Is More Than Simple Yard Care
    By: Jeff Halper | - It is more about craftsmanship than mowing. The lawn is worked into a unifying fabric of shapes and design that connect the many elements of residential landscape design. Both organic and inorganic forms must be included in this fabric.

    The point of lawn landscape design is not to magnify the greenery at the expense of human architecture, but rather to blend green elements with fantastic figures of stone, tile, wood, brick, and gravel. Then, and only then, can we say that the ...

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  • High End Modern Garden Design Creates Movement And Interest
    By: Jeff Halper | - High end modern landscaping adds tremendous value to both residential and commercial locales. What differentiates these landscapes from standard modern and contemporary designs is their very intentional use of geometric shapes, exceptionally high-grade materials, and thoughtful selectivity when it comes to choosing plant species for gardens and ground cover.

    Where we see the modern landscape designer seeking to support architecture from a complimentary point of view, the high-e ...

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  • Softening The View Of The Houston Landscape In Crowded Neighborhoods
    By: Jeff Halper | - By definition, softening the view of the Houston landscape involves obscuring or partly obscuring the view of other structures, buildings, homes, use plant material, bamboo, shrubs, and other kinds of plants that can be hedged. Along the edges of property, this art is known as "pleaching", and it involves training trees such as evergreens to form organic walls or grow together like giant bushes.

    These forms help to lend organic sense to individual properties and create polite s ...

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  • Our Personal Review Of Cheap Contemporary Area Rugs
    By: BrianGarvin | - If you are thinking about carpeting a room or two in your home but are finding that the prospect is economically daunting, why not consider purchasing Cheap Contemporary Area Rugs instead? Large area rugs can give your home the feeling of carpeting without the expense, while at the same time adding interest, warmth, and charm to any room.

    These rugs come in a wide range of colors, designs, styles, and sizes allowing you to use them almost anywhere with perfect ease. Some of the sma ...

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  • Designer Ties For The Stylish Men
    By: MITH | - What better way to look stylish and absolutely refined then by wearing designer ties? If you are looking for a way to make your look really stand out while you are at a fancy event or while you are at work, then you need to start wearing designer ties. Look good at the next event that you attend and make everyone envious with your impeccable style and taste. Who doesn't want to feel like a million bucks, especially when all you need is a simple tie to make that happen!

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  • Contemporary Koi Ponds Lend Presence To Many Environments
    By: Jeff Halper | - Contemporary koi ponds feature very abstract and intentional manmade designs that follow the established rules of geometric order. The beauty of this form lies in the versatility and freedom of creative design that it affords the residential landscape designer. While it is truly a modern design element, its aesthetic is not limited to only modern landscapes.

    It is not so much the style of landscaping that defines the shape and size of the pond, but the architecture of the home ...

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  • Melissa And Doug Blocks Toys Promote Cognitive Development
    By: Kanooga | - Toy blocks are far from old-fashioned. While they have been a traditional toy for many generations, blocks offer so many benefits that they continue to top wish lists for parents and children alike.

    Babies and toddlers often enjoy soft blocks that are easily grasped and land more gently when they tumble. In addition, these stuffed blocks can be mouthed and gnawed without encountering corners and hard edges. However, solid wooden blocks are the most durable and offer years of enterta ...

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  • 4 Decorating Solutions For Your Bathroom's Brown And Turquoise Tile Floor
    By: Aja Klena | - While colors can date a room, they can also make it look very contemporary. One color combination that has gained tremendously popularity is brown and turquoise. While the color palette may sound modern and bold, it can also be muted and organic depending on how you accent the space. So, consider a bathroom with brown and turquoise floor tile and all of the possibilities that it offers.

    There is Brown and then There is Brown
    A wonderfully neutral and organic color, brown c ...

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  • Get Fashion Jewelry Fun Trend.
    By: yaling | -

    It's about getting noticed. It's about making a statement. It's about defying the previous rules of fashion and pushing the envelop in terms of how much is much. Fashion jewelry was popular in 2008, with everything from neon geometric shapes to layer-on-layer of chains. Today, they continue to see everyone from pop icons to movie stars to college kids wearing this fashionable trend.

    From oversized bangles to huge hoop earrings to a mountain of silver chains, we've cert ...

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  • Top Three Places To Look For Wrought Iron Pieces
    By: Andrew Dalton | - Wrought iron home accents are in! Why you ask? Well, their popularity can be mostly attributed to two factors:

    They are beautiful to look at. Despite the hardness of metal, the artisans have found a way to curve them into the most intricate designs one can ever think of. The patterns can range from the dainty flowers, vines and leaves to the more modern geometric shapes and lines.

    Wrought iron accessories can last you a lifetime if given enough care. Th ...

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  • Art Deco Geometric Shapes, Sharp Angles And Patterns
    By: Gen Wright | - When a group of leading Parisian artists organized an exposition dedicated to modern industrial and decorative art in 1925, they sparked the birth of a short-lived but highly influential design movement later known as Art Deco. In the 20s and 30s it came to dominate the entire range of decorative arts, in fields as diverse as architecture, industrial design, and, of course, interior design. We can still see Art Deco buildings in many cities and, thanks to a resurgence in the 80s, in hotels and o ...
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  • Celebrity Jewelry Trends Are Big, Costume& Colorful
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    Thinking new jewelry? Look out for bright colors, big, bold, eye catching, along with geometric shapes. This year's Academy Awards was a great indicator for the latest jewelry trends. As usual, Angelina Jolie was ahead of the fashion pack with her eye catching over sized emerald jewels. In fact, Angelina's green gems covered several criteria for newest jewelry.

    One of the biggest trends we see in jewelry fashion this year is colorful stones. Another feature we see a lo ...

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  • Decorative Commercial Exterior Street Light Poles Made From Concrete
    By: Beth Guide | - Exterior poles must be strong enough to withstand high winds, heavy rains, and seasonal weather changes without losing their flexibility or ability to support lighting fixtures. In areas where factories, chemical plants, and oil refineries produce airborne industrial by-products, exterior light poles require extra layers of exterior and interior treatments of protective powder coating. This makes them impervious to airborne chemicals. Even if your clients are located a few miles away from a f ...
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  • How To Design A Contemporary Front Yard
    By: Jeff Halper | - Contemporary front yard design tends to be more customized to home architecture than other forms of landscaping design. This is because contemporary homes typically emphasize the abstract side of the mind with the use of very basic geometric forms, minimalism, and linear angularity that suggests a stripping down of reality to its most rudimentary components. Front yards surrounding such homes must reflect the patterns and lines of movement evident in home design in order to maintain continuity ...
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  • Contemporary Glassware And Design And Display
    By: Eddie Lamb | - Contemporary design is all about space, light, and geometry. Contemporary furniture is sleek and unembellished with geometric lines. Glass and contemporary glassware play an important part of contemporary design.

    Contemporary Glassware Display

    One technique that keeps contemporary rooms from looking cluttered is to gather similar objects together, making one focal display. This works especially well if some of your glassware pieces are more ornate. A display cas ...

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  • Intelligence Article: Decorating With Topiaries Plus More
    By: Misha Vasser | - Creating topiary plants has to do with cutting and shaping plants into certain designs. Some plants that work well for creating topiary designs are hedges (a more western choice) and bonsai tries (commonly used in the east). There is almost no end to what can be created: people and animals, geometric shapes, and detailed landscapes and mazes are all common choices. Many people who love topiaries but do not have a place to display a 20-foot shrub choose to decorate their houses with much small ...
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  • Glittering Artificial Shrubbery Renovation: Advantageous Advice
    By: Misha Vasser | - History of Topiaries

    The topiary field is an example of horticultural artwork: topiary plants are trimmed and shaped into specialized figures and designs. Hedges and bonsai trees, which are very dense plants, are a perfect canvas for topiary design. There is almost no end to what can be created: people and animals, geometric shapes, and detailed landscapes and mazes are all common choices. Though real topiaries are often enormous in scale, there are many, many designs avail ...

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  • Art Deco Glamorous Geometric Design And Exotic Influences
    By: James Manely | - Costume jewelry had existed on a limited basis for years, but it came to dominate the market during this time. Art Deco jewelry used bright colors, geometric shapes, and drew heavily from ancient Egypt, the Orient, and native tribes, especially from Africa.

    Art deco rhinestone jewelry was very popular with daring bright deco colors and clean geometric shapes. Triangles of onyx stones and crystal rhinestones become a deco bow, and teardrop triangles are filled with emerald green an ...

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  • Uselful Facts About Ultra Modern Furniture
    By: Matthew Cromie | - A close look at the fundamentals on which the ultra modern furniture are built will reveal that they are mainly based on the traditional shapes and patterns with lots of modifications.

    These modifications make the desirable effects thus making it very beneficial, pleasant and widely used. The evolution of the contemporary furniture is estimated to be between the years 1930 and 1960.

    The reason that forced the replacement of the traditional furniture with the innova ...

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  • Tips In Studying Geometry
    By: David H Urmann | - Geometry is a branch of mathematics that deal with the study of shapes, theorems, axioms and postulates. Mastering the subject is a challenge to students.

    According to van Hiele Model of Thinking in Geometry, geometry learning has 5 levels: 0 to 4. The zero (0) level is visual. Objects are reviewed based on appearance. First (1) level deals with the analysis of an objects properties and components. Second (2) level is the informal logical deduction of the interrelation of prop ...

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  • The History Of Topiary
    By: Alex Stacey | - The beautifully sculpted foliage that you see in the form of mazes, animals or geometric shapes is known as "topiary". The origin of the phrase comes from the Latin "topiarius" (ornamental landscaper). The art form was influenced originally from the Romans, Greeks and Persians.

    Topiary consists of evergreen shrubs, bushes, and trees that are compact so that they may form shapes such as an elephant, clouds, dogs, dinosaurs or even people. These shapes, since they are not loose a ...

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  • Rosenthal Designing Phases
    By: Prabhu | - Rosenthal Studio-Line Dinnerware TAC 02 Weiss Salad / Dessert Plate - TAC is true to Walter Gropius' principles. Built on geometric forms, the simple circle and the seamless globe are the primary inspirations for this modern, streamlined collection. The ancient shape of the Chinese tea bowl had been the source of inspiration for Walter Gropius. Purist design, based on simple geometric shapes, lends TAC a timeless poetry. Decors on slightly translucent porcelain emphasize the features of this ico ...
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  • Finding Meaning In Orchids
    By: Nazima Golamaully | - Orchids are beautiful and delicate. They seem almost to be the anti flower with their geometric shapes the antithesis of the soft, rounded curves of more common flowers. It is this very unusual quality that makes them so exotic and desirable. Orchids have had a long history and have different meanings.

    Whatever meaning you choose to take from these beautiful flowers there can be no gift more unusual, unexpected or beautiful than a carefully made up bouquet of these flowers. The o ...

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  • Above Counter Sinks Make A Unique Style Statement
    By: Illa maden | - Vessel or above counter sinks add a very unique element to a bathroom. Though they are gaining in popularity, these are still very unique and add individual style to a bathroom, and combined with your choice in faucets to compliment an above counter sink, your bath can have a very different look.

    Above counter sink materials

    Above counter sinks are available in a wide array of materials and designs. There are porcelain, glass, marble,granite, hammered copper, stainl ...

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  • The Universal Meaning Of Celtic Knots
    By: Marc Choyt | - In the spring of 2003, I spent three weeks in the city of Chennai, formerly known as Madras, located in Southern India. Each morning, walking before the heat of the day, I was amazed to see intricate knot work patterns drawn out free hand with flour in front of the driveways and gates of homes. These artistic scrolls, I was told by an Indian friend, were offerings to local gods, and were part of a tradition that stretched back into the ancient past.

    I have seen knot patterns in my ...

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  • Why Agnieszka Brzezanska Treats Her Paint More Gingerly Than Lydzba
    By: Saatchi-Gallery | - Two young artists now displaying their work at the Art Gallery seem to have taken these words to heart, and intend to prove their validity. Both Jacek Lydzba and Agnieszka Brzezanska paint subjects that could easily be classified as kitsch: Lydzba paints turn-of-the-century childhood fantasies, while Brzezanska concentrates on horses and sunsets.

    Agnieszka Brzezanska treats her paint more gingerly than Lydzba, but not without strength. She lays down her bright, saturated colors in ...

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  • A Geometric Twist On Graffiti: Eltono
    By: Jason Lancaster | - The word "graffiti" is often associated with vandalism. However, for modern street artist Eltono, graffiti is just another word for art. That's because Eltono's work can be found painted onto buildings and walls, in the same places one would expect to find graffiti. But don't be fooled -- Eltono's work is more than just graffiti -- it's modern art.

    The name Eltono is Spanish for the phrase "the tone", and undoubtedly that name was chosen because the artist enjoys painting a repres ...

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  • Jacob Hashimoto Exhibitions And Paintings At Saatchi-gallery
    By: Saatchi-Gallery | - Jacob Hashimoto was born on 1973 lives in New York City and Verona. Jacob Hashimoto cuts rice paper into small geometric shapes and glues the shapes to delicate wooden frameworks, which he attaches to black fishing line and ties to long wooden pegs at the top and bottom of his rectangular, wall-mounted, waterfall-like hangings. The pegs are evenly spaced from side to side across the top and bottom of the piece.

    The artist ties six roughly overlapping layers of shapes onto each peg ...

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  • Shapes Of Diamond
    By: Ken Charnly | - Available Diamond Shapes:

    If you thought all diamond shapes were the same, you may be surprised at the abundant number of diamond shapes that are available. Most jewelers offer at least nine of the most common gemstone shapes, including:

    Round diamonds
    Emerald diamonds
    Heart diamonds
    Princess diamonds
    Pear diamonds
    Radiant diamonds
    Asscher diamonds
    Marquis diamonds
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