The days before summer’s official kickoff are melting away faster than a slushy sitting in the midday sun. Celebrate summer art and hang up a few pieces of seasonal art before it arrives. We have made a list of a few summer art decorating tips to help you get started. They will help you create a sunny space within the home or office that is just too beautiful to ignore.

Do remember that summer is all about color. Choose artwork that brings bursts of color into the room. Summer is full of color from fields of bright yellow sunflowers with there deep green stems to orange red sunsets over the calm beach. These colorful scenes and more are portrayed in art. Not only does summer colored art brighten a room, but it also brings summer vacation memories due to the vibrant colors. Memories of vacation days gone by or those yet to come.

Canvas finishes are a great option for beach artwork. Brushstrokes give plain artwork texture and dimension. This is great for beach scenes because it makes the waves and sand come to life. If you would rather a frame finish, don’t forget to select mats, glazing options and frames that not only compliment the seasonal art but are tough enough to stand up to the sun too. After all, chances are high that you’ll be letting some natural sunlight filter into your home or business during the bright months ahead.

Do remember that summer is also about living easy. So, try to keep those frame and mat selections simple as well. Choose unpretentious patterns or stick with plain frames and single mats. Save the intricate, heavy pieces for the fall and winter.

Don’t skip over summer themes that may not immediately align with traditional, seasonal design schemes. We have found that there is something to be said for hanging summer art that fuels the imagination. Let’s take Panoramic Images’ print, Woman and High Heels on Beach as an example.

To find the ideal slice of summer art and start decorating your home or business’ bare walls, check out our summer art category. 

Is a canvas finish always the best option for art? No. When choosing the finish for art, there are a number of important aesthetic factors to consider, including colors, details, and style.

 Colors

Think about the texture of a canvas. It has fine grooves that seem to disappear at a certain distance, yet are very noticeable up-close. The distance point of this seemingly disappearance is largely related to the amount of colors in a given art work.

When art works have chunks of clearly defined colors, the texture of canvas stops leaving an impression on the eyes at a short distance. In other words, the bolder the colors, the less the canvas texture stands out. Even though some of the most amazing artworks in history were created on canvas, the recreations of these artworks often look much better when printed on high quality art paper.

Renaissance, neoclassical, and romanticism in particular have exorbitant amounts of gradient colors that blend into one another. These blended colors become muted and far less noticeable when the texture of canvas comes into play, which creates a blurred rather than a detailed image.

 Details

 Artworks with bold or simple colors and crisp details work best on canvas. Pop Art, vintage art, and photography are great examples of art that looks amazing on canvas. The bold colors and simple shapes of pop art are not lost in the texture of canvas. Similarly, the crisp details and colors of vintage art also look great on canvas, since the details are not at risk of being blurred or obscured by the texture of canvas.

 Photography also looks great on canvas because the crisp, almost perfect, details of reality are captured through the lens. When photographs are then transferred to canvas, it creates the less than perfect perception of reality that actually occurs with human vision, instead of the view of the objective lens.

Style

The colors and details of art certainly relate to style of art, but there are many artworks that are less defined by genre or artistic movement and more defined by the individual style of the artist.

Word art, for example, may or may not look best on canvas, depending on the colors, as well as the style. Curvy font, subtle shifts in color, and scroll-work would not be well-suited for canvas, while block font, bold colors, and a clean background would be well-suited for canvas.

Keep these elements in mind when choosing the medium to showcase art, and feel free to contact us about any questions you may have!