The web has many great art sites as well. One of the best art sites is artseek.com which has information on Impressionist art and even more data relating to art resources. It is a great place for artists to get exposure. And if your looking for prints or posters by famous artists they have a great online art gallery. There is also a wide range of art galleries. You can check out a great collection of wildlife art, view photorealistic works such as Washington paintings, Oregon paintings and southern California paintings by Cliff Wassmann. If you like art with a fairly tale feeling see the soft paintings by Frances Jerome. A harder edge artist, Carol Heiman-Greene works in acrylics on hard board. Lucy Wang is renowned for her Chinese brush paintings and silk paintings. Another fine artists is Lee Munsell who works on the creation theme in his works.
Rabbit pictures are one of Jeromes specialties that are printed on canvas look like works by French impressionism.
Farther south there are antarctica photos on the antartica pictures site and info Antarctica travel as well. Be sure to browse the Penguins collections and the iceberg pictures. The penguin photos are the best though.
If your looking for New York pictures, especially Times Square photos and World trade center picture, the prints at this site are outstanding. The now famous image of firefighters raising the World Trade Center flag is now available in print form. The stories this image has generated just keep expandiing. First there was the controversy over a sculpture based on the image in which the races of the fire fighters raising the flag were changed, now a couple has come foth claiming ownership of the flag and asking for compensation. Poster of the World Trade Center memorial lights
American realism featuring painters known as American realists. Many of these Philadelphia artists were academy of the fine arts painters. Stonehenge theory information can be found her but if your looking for Stonehenge images try this photographers site.
Cliff Wassmann's seascape paintings include works of Dana point know for Dana point tourism and Dana point travel but if your looking for Dana point photos or images of Dana point harbor then the visitor center site can show you the way. The Headlands Reserve aims to destroy the Dana Point Headlands but if you want to see what is at state look at these Dana Point pictures. Other works of note art the Italy stock photos and the photos from Greek Island travel There are some great pictures of the Parthenon and Acropolis in Athens images.
For Art News artseek has many art resouces. Now with regard to art directories, artseek has links to many famous artists listed below are great sources for prints and posters from:
Art Festival News, the best art festival in California art festival is the Art-A-Fair, Laguna Beach art festival
Finally one the the best places to view tall ships images is at the Tallships Festival web site. Many of these photos were processed at the Orange County location of Aperture Photo Lab in Dana Point. Aperture is a member of the Dana Point Chamber of commerce and Dana Point Visitor Center
Just releases pictures of the world trade center memorial lights are up as well as other twin towers photos and pictures
Food for thought is a re hand craft gift gallery featuring food oriented gifts ane Kitchen Acessories. Glass gifts, fruit plates, glass designs, fine art glass
Duree design features the glass art of Andra Martin who makes functional glass art such as fruit plates, pizza platters, sushi accessories
More gift ideas incuding holiday jewelry can be found hand crafted by Bonnie Beaux
Whale watching in Dana Point is best done through the Ocean Institute. In addition to their fine cruises they have suberb ocean education programs about ocean related exhibits as well as public tall ship cruises. Cruise to Catalina snorkling, Take classes about the ocean, oceanography research for children.