July 2020 - Artlita

Art’s Effect on Happiness

Frozen in Time - Original by Becky Black shows color effects on mood and power of color psychology
Think back to all those times you were an artist in your childhood.  When your finger paintings were hung up on the refrigerator in preschool. When you created figurines out of play-dough in elementary school. When you doodled in your notebook while your teacher droned on in middle school. As we grow older, the time we spend enjoying art seems to […]
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What is a Giclée and Why is It Valuable?

Limited Addition Fine Art Painting
Since the beginning of our existence, human life has shifted, progressed, and revolutionized, and the art world has followed suit. It used to be that once an art piece was sold, that was it. The buyer had the one and only version, and that’s all the world would get. With giclée printing, that is no longer the case. You no […]
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Elevating Black Artists

Elevating Black Artists
The Black Lives Matter movement has taken the U.S. by storm in recent weeks, bringing about societal transformations as epic as state name changes to radical shifts in leadership at major corporations. Notably, one important—yet less discussed—aspect in which African American lives have touched the U.S. lies in the arts, but whose heavy influence has gone unrecognized for decades. As […]
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