In This Issue:
• From the Editors
• Becoming a Collector—
   The Right Way
• FAR Artist of the Month
• Special Offers
• FAR Website Revamp
• Charles Sherman
• NEW! Piece of the Month

FAR Artist of the Month

Sylvie Levesque,
French Canadian artist from Cupertino, CA.
Read the article here.
And visit her online gallery.

Special Offers
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From the Editors
We made it to the second newsletter of the Fine Art Registry™!
Many doubted it could be done but here we are. We received some great suggestions after the first newsletter and would like to hear from YOU (please).
The Editors



Becoming a Collector — The Right Way
It was a peculiar circumstance that brought this unlikely group of people together at the house of Sam Palmer in Southern California. It could have been an inheritance of a large collection of old masters or a purchase of some great modern works of art as a way of investing a bunch of loose cash. It could even have been the sudden and mysterious appearance of a number of paintings and antiques in an abandoned attic in an old house. But it was none of those things. Sam had had some interesting art around the house but would not have considered herself a collector. Then a friend had dumped a number of paintings, sculptures and carvings on her and she had agreed to look after them with an option to buy them if she wanted to.

"I was storing items for a friend of mine who said I could purchase them if I wanted," explains Sam. "The amounts kept changing as to what this person wanted for these items that I had in storage. I found myself with artwork and I had absolutely no understanding of its value. I didn’t know if they were fakes or real." This is a fairly typical situation in the world of art where fakes and forgeries abound and where the value of a piece of art can be compared to the proverbial length of a piece of string and can depend a lot on who’s measuring it and what they stand to gain from the result....
Read the full article here: Becoming a Collector—The Right Way



FAR Website Revamp
You may have noticed that when you visit the FAR website these days you need to wear a hard hat ‘cos of all the construction and renovation going on. Well you ain’t seen nothing yet! Not checked out the FAR website recently? You should: FineArtRegistry.com. And while you're there, why not register any art you've been meaning to register and haven't got around to?

Charles Sherman
Sculptor, art consultant, appraiser, FAR member.
"If I could make one statement about art, it's that the essence of art is that it's a verb, not a noun," says Charles Sherman. "It's a process. And when you fully understand that it's a process, you let the art take its own course. Even the clay has a life of its own and knows where it wants to go and I try to facilitate that." Read the full article.



Piece of the Month
Young artist, new to FAR, Marco Nunes' painting "Lost A Friend to The Sea... James" was chosen as a fitting piece for the era we are living in today: war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Secondly, since it is the month of July it is very fitting. This piece is a constant reminder of our service men and women overseas and elsewhere. You can find the painting here: http://www.fineartregistry.com/portfolio/marco (FAR ID #3838)

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