Monday, March 17, 2014

This Week's Featured Collection: The Artist's World


DoverPictura.com's newest clip art collections offer not only a wealth of material for use in your craft and art projects, but one offers a rare glimpse inside the worlds of many legendary artists...truly an inspiration to anyone with a creative spirit!
  
The Artist's World is a gallery of 120 full-color images that features self-portraits as well as depictions of artists at work in their studios. Illustrations range from a 15th-century image by Dürer to paintings by Gorky, Sloan, Hopper, and other 20th-century artists. Contributors include Manet, Gauguin, Ingres, Degas, Rubens, Renoir, Sargent, Rembrandt, and a host of others.
For instant access to this gorgeous collection, download them all for $15.99! You can also purchase individual image sheets for only $0.99 each.

Monday, February 10, 2014

Enter the Get Crafty with Dover II Craft Contest


We're excited to launch our latest crafting contest, with our biggest prizes yet! Our Get Crafty with Dover II Craft Contest is a celebration of all of the amazing things you can do with a little help from DoverPictura and DoverPublications.

To enter, upload your best craft featuring Dover clip art, using a Dover pattern, or inspired by a Dover book to our contest page. You could win $200 worth of Dover books! Second and third prize winners receive $100 worth of Dover books, and all of the winners will see their work in an upcoming Dover catalog!

The Very Victorian Craft Contest runs  through Marh 31, 2014. See Official Rules

Think you've got what it takes to win our craft contest? There are countless collections on DoverPictura that can be mined for inspiration! Good luck!

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Tutorial Tuesday: Vintage Harvest Crate Stamp/Label Patches


This week's tutorial recommendation comes from Lil Blue Boo and shows you just how easy it is to create unique onesies and shirts with a vintage harvest vibe that are perfect for gifting at baby showers. The stitching detailing really adds to the homespun feel of these adorable clothes. Plus, here's a great additional tip:

If you wish to apply a distressed look...lightly scratch off portions of the printout before transferring.
Check out the full tutorial "Vintage Harvest Crate Stamp/Label Patches (A Tutorial)."

Monday, February 3, 2014

This Week's Featured Collection: Vintage Advertising Art & Design



Our latest collections come with perfect timing! You can download Valentine's images for your cards and decorations or chilly scenes of winter that suit the season. Plus, you'll find imaginative illustrations by Heinrich Kley, fresh new borders, and more. Take a look at all of our latest collections.
Speaking of MORE, this week's featured collection is Vintage Advertising Art & Design- and boy do you get a lot when you download it!  You'll find all the essentials for creating striking ads and other graphic messages with an attention-getting retro look and feel. Drawn from typographic sourcebooks as well as sign-painting manuals of the early twentieth century, this collection includes a wealth of borders, frames, images, and typographic elements for re-creating authentic styles of the 1890s-1920s- nearly 700 image files for you to get carried away with!

Why not dive right in? You can instantly download all 693 images for $15.99! Or purchase individual image sheets for only $0.99 each.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Tutorial Tuesday: Embroidered Art Nouveau Quilt


Since Art Nouveau is one of our best-selling categories, we've seen our clip art used in many different and amazing ways. Today, I'd like to share a tutorial from Vicki's Fabric Creations that incorporates a lot of our favorite things here at Dover- Art Nouveau, embroidery, and quilting!

While the images in this tutorial admittedly are not ours, this tutorial should serve as the perfect jumping off point for your own unique and beautiful quilt.

Monday, January 27, 2014

This Week's Featured Collection: Art Nouveau Floral Designs


Offering art work that is alive as nature itself, DoverPictura.com's Art Nouveau images are some of our most popular downloads. And it's easy to see why- just take a look at our bestselling Art Nouveau clip art collections!

But this week, we'd also like to feature one of our lesser known Art Nouveau collections: Art Nouveau Floral Designs. Imagine what you can do with these 101 lovely, vibrantly colored illustrations, originally created by one of the great masters of the Art Nouveau style, delicately interpret an enormous variety of floral designs.

Intricately woven images of fanciful blossoms in blue, gold, salmon, and other rich color combinations are perfect for textiles and wallpapers, and also offer splendid ideas for mosaics and stained glass.

For instant access to this gorgeous collection, download them all for $12.99! You can also purchase individual image sheets for only $0.99 each.

Maybe we'll see this collection on our next list of best-sellers!

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Tutorial Tuesday: Vintage Valentine Basket


Here's an adorable paper basket using a popular image from our Vintage Valentines collection.

Says Shelley of the Paper and Flowers blog:

After I had the basket with the blue angel sitting on my desk for a couple days, I got to thinking that these baskets would make good Teacher's gifts for Valentines Day! To make this basket more in line for Valentine's Day, I used pink, white, and red streamers at the bottom of the basket. I also used pink and white beads on the handle.

Click through to see the full post and link to a tutorial.