Dave Von Bieker
Creative Sparks for the New Year
It’s a Brand New Year, What Will You Create and How Will You Share It? With memories of fireworks and friends fresh in our minds, it is the season for reflecting backward and planning forward. For authors and artists, this is a great time to consider what you’d like to create this coming year, and ... Continue reading Creative Sparks for the New Year
Rachel Cadrin: January Featured Artist
Happy New Years everyone! We are pleased to share Rachel’s work with you as our first Featured Artist of 2012. At PageMaster, we’ve had a long history with Rachel Cadrin who is currently working out of Calgary. Here bright and bold abstracts translate beautifully across many mediums, from art cards to large-scale giclee prints and ... Continue reading Rachel Cadrin: January Featured Artist
Merry Christmas from PageMaster
It’s easy to tell that it’s Christmas at the PageMaster office these days. If the nativity and garland on the front counter didn’t give it away, you’d soon hear the eclectic stream of Christmas music flowing from our Creative room. And if perhaps you didn’t hear that, you’d discover baking laid out, far too tempting, ... Continue reading Merry Christmas from PageMaster
How to Have A Website and Keep All of Your Hair
I’ve worked with websites a lot over the years, so it is amazing I still have a full head of hair. Back when I was doing marketing for a college, I was faced with a decision I’m sure many authors and artists face every day; pay someone big bucks to build and maintain our website, ... Continue reading How to Have A Website and Keep All of Your Hair
Catherine Marchand: December 2011 Featured Artist
Catherine Marchand has created a wide range of fine art reproduction products with PageMaster. Her work is now available in stretched canvas (‘gallery wrapped’) reproductions, high quality giclee and laser prints as well as art cards. You can currently view Catherine’s work at The Daffodil Gallery, located at 10412 124th Street. Catherine has been able ... Continue reading Catherine Marchand: December 2011 Featured Artist
Rhonda McDougall Art Cards and Prints
Rhonda McDougall has been discovering beauty in the world around her for a long time. She has been capturing that beauty in photographs, and until now, those photographs have not gone far from home. But that is all about to change. “Finding the PageMaster ad in Edmonton Senior newspaper opened a door for me”, writes ... Continue reading Rhonda McDougall Art Cards and Prints
Inspiration: Google Art Project
Brace yourself, I’m about to give you a new weapon in the war against the blank page. For perhaps all of human history artists have stared at that horrifying, often immobilizing blank page. That pending project, or lack of pending project, that glares mockingly at you as if to say, ‘You have no ideas. Your ... Continue reading Inspiration: Google Art Project
Lori Anne Youngman: November 2011 Featured Artist
Each month at PageMaster.ca we feature an artist from our ‘family’. These are artists we have had the pleasure of working with on projects, be it fine art reproductions, art cards or even a website. This month’s featured artist is special, because we have worked on all of these projects together, and not only is ... Continue reading Lori Anne Youngman: November 2011 Featured Artist
Laugh For Life Gala Programs
PageMaster continues to work with Laugh For Life Gala to create a program for their fundraising event. Not only were the programs printed here, Doug from our creative team designed the program in Adobe InDesign. The Gala takes place tomorrow evening at the Winspeare Centre. More info can be found at lifeforlife.ca. You can download ... Continue reading Laugh For Life Gala Programs
Sizing Up Your Images for Print
You’ve shot that masterpiece image of the Canadian rockies, and it is breathtaking. It’s so breathtaking, you’d love to see it printed on a canvas and hung on your living room wall. Or, perhaps you’d love to print some cards of your images to sell, promote your photography or give to friends and family. But ... Continue reading Sizing Up Your Images for Print
