A common and important question for emerging artists and illustrators: how to price your work. This article explains the key factors to consider when calculating the price of an original oil painting.
Boats and ships are powerful symbols that have long attracted artists, poets, filmmakers, and other creatives as a means of expressing ideas, emotions, and narratives. This imagery also deeply engages the viewer—for whom art is ultimately created. I am no exception. I am drawn to works by painters and photographers exploring this theme, and over time I have created my own sketches, studies, and reinterpretations inspired by boats and ships in art.
Mandala — translated from Sanskrit as “circle.” When we apply this translation, the meaning of these drawings becomes broader and deeper. There is a certain perception attached to the word “mandala”: those who have heard of these images often associate them with Buddhism, Hinduism, or religion in general. And this is true — no one disputes that. The mandala is inseparably connected with the past and with history. But here, we are speaking about the present.
