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There’s no time like the beginning of a new year to redecorate your home and breathe new life into your walls. Each year that rolls around offers the opportunity for a fresh new start—and the perfect occasion to take your home décor to the next level. If you’re looking for an easy way to raise the bar, consider upgrading your wall art to canvas.

The online art gallery at ArtSelect.com offers an excellent selection of Art on Canvas titles in a wide range of art styles and subjects.

Sophisticated and Striking Nothing sets a quiet tone of sophistication in a room like a piece of fine art on canvas. Rich with texture and color, canvas reproductions beautifully convey the artist’s original intention to a degree unmatched by any lithograph. And while a well-framed lithograph certainly lends an air of style to any room, a canvas piece takes the original work to a whole new dimension.

“When you decorate your home with canvas it instantly adds sophistication and chic to your walls,” says Stacy Dalton, Senior Designer at ArtSelect.com “The texture brings out the subtleties of the piece, making the colors richer and giving the art more substance and depth. It’s a quick and easy way to update your décor; by choosing a progressive color or a hot trend like photography on canvas, you can instantly update your look.”

No matter your taste in art or home décor, the world of art on canvas is rich with decorating possibilities.

Choose from Abstract Art , Landscapes, Floral Art, Museum Masters, and more.

If you’re considering adding canvas art to your home décor but you can’t decide which pieces would look best, keep in mind that just about anything looks great on canvas.

“Some prints really take to canvas,” says Dalton, “For example, pieces where the artist’s original work is really painterly and incorporates a lot of visible brushstrokes look incredible on canvas. ‘Flowering,’ an abstract art piece by Nancy Ortenstone, is a terrific example.”

Flowering, Nancy Ortenstone

“We’ve also discovered, though, that a wide range of fine art prints work incredibly well on canvas—even photography!”

Ullswater, Glenridding, Cumbria, Mel Allen

The bottom line? Canvas complements a wide range of fine art and photography titles; let personal taste and creativity be your guides. What images naturally appeal to you? What pieces can you easily envision hanging on your walls? Browse the Canvas Collection at ArtSelect.com for inspiration, or shop our entire online art gallery by Art Genre, Decorating Style, Subject, or Color for a great selection of prints, many of which are available on canvas.

Enjoy your explorations in the world of art on canvas!

Stay tuned for our next blog, where you’ll learn about the different types of canvas reproductions (canvas transfers and giclée), plus designer tips on framing and museum-style canvas wraps.

In our last blog, we talked about how easy it is to upgrade your home décor by bringing art on canvas into your home. This time, we’ll talk about the different kinds of canvas reproductions, so you can be a discerning art buyer.

There are two great ways to bring the textured look and feel of original canvas paintings into your home – Canvas Transfers and Giclée Canvas. Although the processes are quite different for each, the result is the same: a beautiful work of art with a vividness and depth that cannot be achieved on paper.

Canvas Transfers

In creating a canvas transfer, the original image is lifted from a paper print, transferred and permanently mounted onto artist-grade canvas. This process elegantly seals and preserves the images in acrylic, which gives them the deep and lustrous texture characteristic of genuine oil paintings.

Canvas Transfers are available in a wide range of subjects, from Abstracts to Animals, Cuisine-themed art, Florals, Figures, Landscapes, Sea & Shore, World Culture, and more at ArtSelect.com

Giclée (Printed on) Canvas

Giclée, a French word pronounced “Jhee-Clay,” literally means “to spray”. To produce a giclée work, the images are digitally captured and printed directly onto artist-grade canvas using highly sophisticated inkjet printers and archival-quality ink. These fade-resistant, collector-quality works of art are guaranteed to retain their color and detail for over 100 years.

Giclée printers use six ink colors, compared to four in traditional lithography, and spray tiny pixels of archival ink for rich, long-lasting color and detail. The colors mix on the surface to create true colors, rather than the dots that the eye has to blend together in a lithograph, resulting in a finished artwork much more like the original painting.

For decorating inspiration, visit our new giclée canvas collection. You’ll find custom-frameable fine art and photography, and more.

The Museum, Claude Monet

For authentic canvas transfers and giclée, visit the online gallery at ArtSelect.com. We offer a wide range of the highest-quality art on canvas available in genres ranging from Abstract Art to Impressionism. You’ll find works by all your favorites, including Monet, Van Gogh, Renoir, Klimt, O’Keeffe, Kandinsky, Degas, and many more.

With today’s sophisticated reproduction technologies, anyone can relish the rich, textured presentation of an original work of art in his or her own home—but without the costly expense. Dress your walls with our exquisite art-on-canvas titles by historic and contemporary artists, and see the difference.