“The launch of the FramedArt-To-Go.com website is exhilarating,” says David Boos, President of Cornerstone Consulting, Inc. “The website represents our on-going commitment to enabling our clients to employ efficient, streamlined and integrated information technology products and services. Providing FramedArt-To-Go.com with an integrated accounting, inventory and e-commerce software system is extremely rewarding. In this difficult economic period, many can no longer afford to waste time and resources by using inefficient, non-integrated software applications in the conduct of their businesses.” He added, “We are resellers and implementation specialists of an integrated accounting, e-commerce and inventory management software solution called Comgine (http://www.Comgine.com ). We’ve recommended this streamlined solution to ensure that our clients maintain: accurate sales forecasting, appropriate inventory levels, a lean business operation, availability of company resources, customer loyalty and increased revenues.”

Comgine reduces transaction costs, streamlines the online ordering processes and generates additional profits from web store sales. When items are purchased through an integrated e-commerce website, as opposed to a non-integrated website, pertinent information is processed through the accounting and inventory management software without any duplication of data entry. An integrated system is efficient: the order comes in from the website; the system fulfills the order from stock and orders replacement inventory from vendor; a payable is created; the picking/packing ticket is created; the product is shipped; the web payment is applied to order/ invoice; and, paid invoice and tracking information is automatically emailed to the customer. Mr. Boos stated, “We believe that it is our duty to deliver exceptional business management products and customer service to all clients. The continued success of our business model, which includes our continually growing e-commerce website development division, is a direct reflection of the quality of our skilled employees and technologically savvy clients.”

Capitalizing on over twenty-five years of technology consulting, implementation of ERP systems, custom programming and maintaining extensive business relationships with thousands of clients, Cornerstone Consulting focuses on making streamlined business management software and technology process improvements an enjoyable experience for their clients. Many business leaders embraced the concept of implementing integrated accounting, e-commerce and inventory management software systems to streamline business processes, reduce overhead and improve efficiencies. As a result of those successes, Cornerstone Consulting has become the leading reseller and implementation specialists for Comgine e-commerce software. Numerous industry leading manufacturers, distributors, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical companies leverage Comgine e-commerce software not only to sell goods to online consumers, but also to make their organizations more efficient.

Mr. Boos stated: “Even though we are primarily considered ERP consultants, Sage Software and SAP Business One implementation specialists and custom (SQL, .NET, ColdFusion, Visual FoxPro and more) programming experts, we have become a leading provider of integrated accounting, inventory and e-commerce software applications to small and midsized enterprises. In conjunction with our corporate mission, our goal is to help clients leverage technology to their competitive advantage. To achieve that objective, we hire exceptional programmers, technical writers, graphic designers, e-commerce website developers and project managers. Cornerstone employs only the most talented and technologically advanced people so that our team consistently delivers preeminent business software solutions and services for our clients.  Further, we thrive on distinguishing ourselves from the competition by embracing constructive change. Transforming the technological infrastructure of our core business to meet and exceed the expectations of our clients reinforces our reputation of excellence.”

About FramedArt-To-Go.com: In 2008, FramedArt-To-Go.com was formed to offer to the online community the same fine artwork that has been available to hundreds of thousands of satisfied buyers through numerous retail outlets across the entire United States. FramedArt-To-Go.com is a privately owned company that offers a diverse selection of framed artwork, as well as high quality Giclee, at substantially discounted prices to the online marketplace. The large inventory of art includes abstract, architecture, coastal, cuisine, floral, still life, landscape, nature, sports, leisure and wildlife framed prints. To make the online art shopping experience convenient for consumers, FramedArt-To-Go.com has taken the guesswork out of matting and framing. The quality artwork available at FramedArt-To-Go.com is matted, framed and shipped directly to the homes and offices of online consumers. For further information about the company, please visit the company’s website.

About Cornerstone Consulting, Inc.:Cornerstone Consulting Inc. is a reseller of Comgine’s integrated e-commerce applications and a leading provider of Sage Software and SAP Business One business management software solutions to small and mid-market organizations. Founded in 1983, Cornerstone is a privately-owned company that provides a full suite of information technology for numerous small and mid-sized business clients in North America, Europe, South America, the Caribbean and Canada. Cornerstone provides clients with the ability to make faster business decisions, experience profitable growth and outperform the competition through the use of integrated, unified, streamlined, simple-to-use, scalable and customizable software. Our products and services support accounting, operations, customer relationship management, human resources, and a variety of specific needs of the wholesale distribution, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and manufacturing industries. Cornerstone’s services include: system integration for LAN, WAN, VPN, wireless and Internet networks, Custom Programming, EDI, Barcodes and Scanning, RFID, E-commerce, Website Design and Hosting, Security, Networks, Remote Monitoring, VOIP and Custom Web Application Development. Headquartered in Tampa, FL at 5550 West Executive Drive., Suite 240, Vice President, Eleanor Mullaney can be reached at (813) 321-1300. For further information about our company, please visit the company’s website: http://www.Cornerstone1.com

Floral and botanical artworks range in style from anatomically correct fine art photos of wide open blooms, to wild abstract and surreal art composed of smatterings of color suggestive of buds, leaves and stems.  Media formats also are widely varied.  Art gallery images of flowers and plants range from fine art photographs to hand painted watercolors and oils, and even to dried flowers that are pasted into montages and collages.

But, three main categories of floral art are most popular with artists and art buyers. They include fine art photographs, traditional oil paintings, and classic watercolors.

Fine art photos typically are photographed at high resolution in extreme close-ups.  Artists use special, macro lenses to magnify and capture the tiny details of a flower’s anatomy and hold it in sharp focus.  Capturing a drop of moisture on a petal, a spec of pollen on the stamen, or a flower’s delicate filaments in exactly the right light is what creates a magnificent artwork prized by the artist and by the art buyer.

When professionally enlarged for use as wall art these photographs can be striking, and are especially popular with interior designers, collectors, and of course, flower gardeners.  Limited editions of these artworks signed and numbered by the artist heighten the value and the excitement in owning them.

But, floral artworks that are printed on stretched, wrapped canvas are quickly becoming the most popular format of home decorators.  This format combines the look of a traditional oil painting with the impact of a fine art photo, and is especially effective for showcasing floral art.  The method called Giclee processing preserves the color and detail so important to the artist and the art collector.

Study in Blue by fine art photographer Kevyn Moss is a triptych on canvas.  The digitally enhanced photograph depicts different personalities of the same flower type with a variety of fascinating shapes and textures. The subject of the photograph is a blue waterlily of the family Nymphaea.  The three separate artworks measure 14″ x 37″ when hung as shown.  As an example, a floral artwork on canvas like Study in Blue will sell for around $250.  Fine art prints on paper typically sell for under $50.While fine art prints effectively capture nature’s intricate details, traditional oil paintings are a close second in showcasing the color and texture of florals and botannicals.  Hand applied brush strokes that create lifelike, colorful copies of complicated blooms continue to challenge artists and to please art buyers.

Much study goes into learning how to paint a flower.  Each bloom is unique, made up of a number of different complex parts, soft, rounded shapes and subtle shades of color.  The learning process prompts many artists to paint series of the same type of bloom in the same position and light over and over again.  Each painting in a series becomes more accurate and more striking as the artist perfects his technique.Praise by fine artist Stephen Hackley is a beautiful bright gerber daisy, painted with a view of a flower we don’t normally see.  The oil on canvas is an oversized 60″ x 48″ of the bloom which in the words of the artist “has her petals outstretched, acknowledging life and singing out to whoever will hear.”

On a different level in intensity than oil paintings like Praise, watercolors can be the most abstract of popular types of floral art.  Watercolor artists typically paint in an impressionist style where details are less important than the impression or the idea of the artwork.

Watercolor paint and the process lends itself to blurred lines and muted colors, and is especially apropriate for painting natural subjects.  Its delicate transparancy is well suited to images of equally delicate, transparant petals and leaves.  But, when combined with pen and ink a watercolor can show as much or more detail as an oil painting.  Illustrators who use watercolor to enhance pen and ink drawings of botannicals create highly prized, collectible artworks by integrating impressionism with technical drawing.

Grace is a 16.5″ x 22.5″ fine art watercolor by artist Patrice Dobyn.  The painting won third place in a juried competition for its color and composition.  The artist’s works sell in the range of $300 to $400 for an original watercolor like Grace, which is hand painted on acid free paper.With lovely artworks like Grace and a passion to recreate the color and shapes of natural flowers it’s clear that floral art will continue to be most popular with artists and with art buyers.  The varied shapes, vibrant colors and uniqueness of each bloom offer a wonderful challenge to artists.  And, for art buyers, owning or collecting floral art creates a year round bouquet that never fades or wilts.  A floral art gallery is always in bloom and never, ever needs watering.

About DiscoveredArtists.comwww.DiscoveredArtists.com is a marketplace for buying and selling original and limited edition artworks.  Independent artists sell directly to the general public.  Prices are set by the artists and artwork is shipped from the artist’s studio.   All major credit cards are accepted.  Artwork may be purchased online and is backed by a satisfaction guarantee of a full refund plus return shipping expense.

People can choose from a varied range of templates available for the canvas prints. A wonderful range of canvas arts can be exploited if you have the passion for arts. The internet is the best place to find maximum information regarding the canvas pictures and canvas prints from photos. All you have to do is to pick up the image and then find a suitable frame. The companies can actually deliver it at your door steps and the best thing is that the frames can also be re-colored. There is wide spectrum of choices when it comes to the colors and designs. You can be the happiest person in the world if you could transform all your old memories to the sweet reckoning thoughts.

The canvas prints from photos can also be good gifts during special occasions and holiday seasons. They are available at affordable rates and the consumers must make their ground research to the maximum extent before selecting the company for the services. More than the canvas pictures, people would have heard about the Giclee prints. It speaks volume about the superior quality offered through the canvas prints. Photography professionals love to have the canvas prints from their photos. The best of results can be obtained at cheaper prices which can keep reminding about the past memories even for decades.

There are plenty of benefits available by the use of giclee prints. The entire process is very simple and the image should be given as the input. It will be digitally scanned and the possible editing works will be made. They have excellent in terms of accuracy and they are carried out with the 8 to 12 ink-jet printers. With the advancement of technology, it is easy to make mass print outs with a single scanned image. The digital quality can be exactly translated from the computer monitor to the images even when they are enlarged. These prints usually will be done on demand. Minimum effort and cost is what required reproducing the golden moments. Personal preferences can be given while reproducing the digital images and it can support mass productions.

But, did you know that the same is true for first impressions of your home?  When that very important someone visits you for the first time what’s their first impression?  Of course, clean and neat is quite important to most people, so we want the place to be picked up.  But, what about your sense of style?  Does your home show that you have one?

There’s an easy way to make sure that it does.

Even if you only have a few pieces of furniture, and you’ve done your very best to create a nice home, you can impress visitors quite easily by showing that you have an appreciation for art.  That’s because when you decorate with carefully chosen, tasteful paintings or sculpture, you’re really adding a sense of your own personal style to your home, and more important, to your sense of style as an individual.

By hanging a simple painting that you love, or placing a piece of art glass that you think is absolutely delightful on your bedside table, you’re letting visitors know that you have a definite sense of style and appreciation for the finer things in life.  And, it’s a real win-win because you can enjoy seeing a lovely piece of art in your home every day, that at the same time, so beautifully compliments who you are.

Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it?  But how do you find a very special piece of art that you absolutely love, and more importantly can afford?  You certainly can go to Pottery Barn or Crate and Barrel and buy popular wall hangings.  But to really differentiate yourself and create a unique style for your home, you should avoid decorating with manufactured art that anyone can buy.  It can be very expensive and it’s never, ever unique.

So, why not consider buying an original oil painting or a limited edition, signed and numbered print for your home?  Do you think that original art is too expensive or too much trouble to shop for and buy?

Well, the good news is that original art has never been more available or more affordable!  That’s because more and more artists are now selling their work directly to the general public on the internet.

Before the development of high speed internet access, and before e-commerce was widely accepted by the general public, artists sold their work through third party art galleries and by renting booths at art shows.  Neither method was very effective because both channels were costly and reached a very limited audience.

But now, thousands of art buyers have direct access to artists and to their work in virtual art galleries where buyers can easily and quickly browse through thousands and thousands of unique paintings, fine art photos and art objects.  It’s a trend that’s creating a whole new way to decorate homes and offices as people discover the beauty and value of buying original art directly from independent artists.

An exceptional website that features original art for home decorating and for collecting is http://discoveredartists.com/.  This website is a virtual, original art marketplace where artists can display their work, keep it in their studio and then ship directly to the buyer when they make a sale.  The site offers artists a place to display their work at a very low cost, and offers buyers a fast, efficient search engine, and secure shopping cart where you can purchase art using a major credit card.

DiscoveredArtists.com also offers buyers a satisfaction guarantee:  If you don’t love it, you can return it which is so important for buying anything online.  And, prices are surprisingly affordable.

Because it’s a low cost way for artists to market their work they can sell their work online at very reasonable prices.  An example of a great value is American artist Sharon Cummings’ Black Magic series.  The artist paints modern abstracts and sells originals, prints and giclees from her online art gallery on DiscoveredArtists.com.  Cummings’ Black Magic paintings are priced at $125 for an 11″ x 14″ original that is matted and ready to place in a standard, 16″ x 20″ frame.  Cummings is well established as one of the best selling artists online.  She paints in her studio in Florida full time to meet demand for her work.  The artist also accepts commissions.  Her original acrylic paintings are strikingly attractive, beautifully painted, and very much in demand by interior designers and collectors.  You can view her artwork at http://www.discoveredartists.com/gallery/SharonCummings .

Museum wrapped canvases are also very popular for home decorating because the paintings don’t require framing. Paint spatters on the deep, canvas edges actually add to the interest, although many artists “finish” the edges.  Russian born artist Nelya Shenkylarska’s landscape, Summer, is an 8″ x 10″ original oil on stretched canvas that is a lovely, little painting.  The painting sells for only $45 and is absolutely bursting with color.  Shenkylarska paints with a pallet knife that creates wonderful texture and catches the light beautifully.  She is a classical impressionist painter whose gallery includes figuratives, still lifes, florals and landscapes. Any one of Shenkylarska’s paintings would be a wonderful way to begin a collection of classic oil paintings by female, Russian émigrés (Yes, that’s how great art collections begin!).  View Shenkylarska’s artwork at http://www.discoveredartists.com/gallery/NelyaShenklyarska .

If you decide on a theme for your home décor or for your budding art collection it’s easy to search for particular types of art on DiscoveredArtists.com.  The gallery features three main categories of original and limited artwork that include wall hangings, fine art photographs and art objects.  A fast and efficient search engine lets you browse only for the type of art that interests you and that will work for the wall or area in your home you want to decorate.  You can search for paintings by size, color, price, style, theme, shape and more, and find artwork created by starting and emerging artists as well as by established, well known artists.  Paintings and prints on the website are priced from under $100 to many thousands of dollars, so you’ll find artwork that works for budget decorating as well as for serious art collecting.

But, what’s most important is that when you find that very special painting that you love and absolutely must have, you can be confident that your own, unique sense of style will impress your guests the first time and every time they visit.  So, introduce yourself to decorating with a few, lovely pieces of original art, and fill your home with style.  Your own, personal, very unique style!

About DiscoveredArtists.comDiscoveredArtists.com is a marketplace for buying and selling original and limited edition artworks.  Independent artists sell directly to the general public.  Prices are set by the artists and artwork is shipped from the artist’s studio.   All major credit cards are accepted.  Artwork may be purchased online and is backed by a satisfaction guarantee of a full refund plus return shipping expense.

Finding new and interesting ways to decorate your home is always a challenge. A classy painting by a notorious artist will always complement the style of a room. A beautiful art print can have the same effect on your home, bringing elegance and style into your life. You can choose a poster from a famous artist or one representing a theme you are fond of – either way it will be a magnificent way to renew your surroundings. Riteart.com is where you’ll find the print you’ve been looking for.

Most people have a completely distorted conception about what a print it. The first thing that comes to mind is a cheap low quality poster with very little to offer. These days however, this mistaken conception is starting to change, as more and more people have come to realize that art prints are valuable collectibles, of high quality and beautiful aspect. A high quality print will increase in value over time and can represent a very solid investment. Museums all over the world have begun to feature fine prints within prestigious expositions, acknowledging their unique qualities.

Nowadays, it’s not uncommon for a top quality print to be as valued as an original painting or drawing. Valuable art prints are made in limited numbers and with the highest quality of materials and printmaking devices. In many cases, the printmaking process is overseen by an artist and even finished by hand and signed. The number of the print reveals its position in the limited series in which it was created. An early number in a collection symbolizes a higher value of the print. For instance, the first three prints are high prized collectibles one should pursue. Furthermore, the value of a print increases if the number of copies in which it has been produced is low.

Nowadays the number of people that have become interested in purchasing artwork is rapidly increasing. Original works of art are usually very expensive and hard to come by. High quality prints are also good investments, as their value increases over time. If the print is part of a limited edition collection, chances are that its value will grow considerably. At riteart.com you can purchase high quality posters for your home.

When choosing a frame for your canvas work you’ll want a frame that is fitting, not only for your canvas pictures, but for your walls. The size of the frame will determine whether the wall appears crowded once the piece is hung. The frames size will also need to be appropriate for the print that is wrapped on it. If the frame isn’t large enough or if it is too small some of your image may not be displayed. It is possible to resize most images digitally, but consider the appearance and the effect that resizing may have. Canvas prints from photos also require a solid frame to hold their shape. With canvas pictures the frame actually holds the canvas stretched out. This is an important detail and places a greater demand on the frame’s structural strength. A solid material and construction are necessary.

The choice of canvas and ink used in the printing of your canvas pieces are two distinguishing characteristics that can help you choose a quality printer. Giclee prints are prints that are created with discerning quality standards. It is necessary that the canvas be of a lasting high quality grade and that the inks be of archival quality for the prints to be considered giclee prints. Archival quality inks are quality tested and proven to last for decades. Giclee prints are the quality standard for many museums and galleries worldwide. If your prints are giclee prints they are lasting prints.

The last element that will determine much about your canvas pictures is the way you chose to display them. Canvas prints from photos can be displayed on walls. They are often printed with bleed. Bleed is a technique in which some of the image is printed to wrap around the side of the frame on the canvas of your canvas prints from photos. This allows for a gallery style display of your canvas picture on any wall. Another option is the use of a floor stand. Depending on the style of your stand you may want to design a print without bleed as it may not be viewable when placed on a stand.