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olarte.ollieOne of the most recent and increasingly popular calligraphy trends today is the use of colors like charcoal gray, dove gray, slate gray and other variations of gray when it comes to the text. One could say that gray is the new black in calligraphy. Colors like pink and chartreuse are also quite in vogue when it comes to calligraphy. Clients today are opting for more modern lettering styles instead of the common old world calligraphy lettering.
When it comes to wedding invitation calligraphy, there are still many traditional brides, but a new era of brides that want to go modern and bold is on the rise. Wedding invitations in calligraphy that are written all in lower case or in different modern styles are quite popular.
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p0ps HarlowScribblar offers a collaborative flash application, which allows users to set up individual rooms and invite participants to draw together. Scribblar concentrates primarily on drawing tools and is an interesting website.
Flockdraw is a free real time application with a social element to it. Users can vote for drawings that they like.
Netsketch has taken the collaborative drawing concept to smartphones and has developed the first application which allows one to draw on the iPhone or iPad with other people.
The Imagination Cubed drawing application supports for image backgrounds, patterns and stamps. It is very simple to use.
The Scriblink Java drawing application provides an image uploader, VoIP and file sending capabilities. This drawing tool also has a good selection of mathematical symbols which gives it an edge in the teaching environment.
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tom.snapsAlfons Mucha is one of the most famous Czech artists, but Prague has much more to offer in terms of its rich tradition of both public sculpture and wall art. The rising prominence of the visual arts in Prague dates from the baroque period up to the present day.
Contemporary Czech artists are still sketching and painting modern day masterpieces, so there is always something new and fascinating to see in the Veletrzni Palace and the Futura Gallery. Looking back to the earliest inspirational art of the Czech Republic, you will find the luminously realistic, 14th century paintings of Magister Theodoricus, whose work still hangs in the Chapel of the Holy Cross at Karlstejn Castle and in the Chapel of St Wenceslas in St Vitus Cathedral. These early works influenced art throughout Central Europe.