aesthetics, art, color psychology, creative expression, emotional release, interior design, mental health, painting

Soulful Palette: The Spirit-Lifting Impact of Creating Beautiful Paintings

Art can make you feel good, stimulate your senses, and stir many emotions. This article will explore how making art, whether painting, sculpture, music, dance or something else, can change your life.  Art has a significant effect on your health and feelings. Art can help you express yourself, feel better, and go beyond your everyday ...

Viena Abdon

A street painter.

4 Feng Shui Tips for the Bedroom

The bedroom is a highly private and personal place. It ties in closely with one’s “qi” (energy flow). With bad feng shui, once the “qi” is broken, courses of things — such as relationships and even health — will plunge. Avoid these 4 things in the bedroom 1. Ancestral tablet or portrait An ancestral tablet or portrait is normally ...

Emma Lu

Elegant bedroom interior with big comfortable bed with blue bedding, paintings on the wall, and patterned carpet on the floor.

Applying Feng Shui to Bedroom Art

If you are planning to place some artwork in your bedroom, you might want to ensure that you follow feng shui principles so that the paintings harmoniously blend in with the room. There are two important things you should consider — the bagua of your home and the type of imagery depicted in the painting. ...

Emma Lu

A bedroom with art.

Meet Zhang Daqian, One of China’s Greatest Artists

If one had to pick some of the best artists China has produced in the last 500 years, Zhang Daqian would certainly top the list for most people. A traditional Chinese painter in his early years, Zhang is renowned as an expressionist and impressionist painter. He is also thought of as one of the top ...

Raven Montmorency

Song Dynasty Painting: Children at Play in Winter by Su Hanchen

In Chinese paintings, one important genre is figure painting. Nevertheless, images with children as the main subject are relatively rare. It was not until the time of the Six Dynasties (220-589) that children became the main focus in paintings, and scenes of children playing joyfully became popular during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) by such painters ...

Jessica Kneipp