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14 Tips for Displaying Your Original Art Painting
Written by Gayla Myer
Find out more about New Orleans Abstract Artist, Gayla Myer here.
View her abstract paintings here.
- Your art is an extension of who you are because it reveals what you love. Remember that you are trying to personalize your home with this art.
- Position artwork at “eye level” so that it is viewed with ease and more readily captures the passerby’s attention.
- Cover two thirds of the space above furniture with one or more pieces of art to achieve proper proportion.
- If you want to place a painting above a sofa, it should be placed about 6-9 inches above it.
- You might want to try displaying your original on an easel in a corner, bookcase or desk.
- Paintings help absorb noise and remove the empty sound.
- Artwork helps create the ambience of a room. You can change the look and feel of a room by hanging pictures in particular ways and places.
- You can lengthen a room by adding paintings with horizontal lines. This creates an illusion of a longer room.
- You can enlarge a narrow room by hanging a large colorful painting on one side and adding a mirror to the adjacent wall.
- You can heighten a room by adding a painting with strong vertical lines.
- If a room in your house feels kind of “blah”, you’d be surprised at how much of an impact displaying a vibrant piece of abstract art can make. It almost seems to add “personality” to the room!
- Deciding where to hang the paintings will depend on the type of look that you want to create. For instance, if you want to create a modern gallery style, give each painting lots of space around it and even add picture lighting or track lighting to direct more attention to the painting and give the room more of an intimate glow. By placing lighting on the art, it will also bring out highlights of the painting that you may not have noticed before, as well as bring out the inner glow of some fine art.
- Artwork created with ink, pencil, charcoal, watercolors or pastels should be framed with glass or Plexiglas. You should always use a mat board between the art and the frame. Acrylic paintings are more durable and do not need to be framed. In fact, you should not cover oil or acrylic paintings with glass, as they need to “breathe.”
- Never hang original paintings in direct sunlight or near heating vents or under fluorescent lighting. All of these can damage artwork over time.
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