Artists are the assets to our society they help cultivate our culture yet most of the artists struggle to make it as professional artist or even as part time artist and many of them get sucked into other professions after being disappointed from the never ending rejections. There are many reasons due to which artists find themselves unable to adapt their art as profession and one of the major reasons is lack of proper marketing or even lack of marketing at all. To market art is as important as the quality of art itself, some artist are sub consciously afraid of making their art a business because they feel that the nature of business is somewhat contradictory to the nature of art while many others simply cannot stand any more rejections. Have you ever wondered why your art never get appreciated as much as of those artists who have become so famous and make big fortune with the help of their art despite the fact that your artistic conception possess superior value than theirs. This is common among artists community, some of them get lot of attention for no apparent reasons while others who deserve it, never get discovered. When it comes to this problem many artists seek help of professionals who know how to introduce creative talent in the market. Luckily there are some online services that can help you spread the word out.

One such innovative service is Help-2-Succeed.com, Help 2 Succeed is a service from artist for artist, so the professionals at Help 2 Succeed being artists themselves are well aware of common problems that an artist might face in his or her career. Help 2 succeed is using most innovative tools and methods to help you succeed in your career. Their well formulated step-by-step instructions and “validate the rightness” method to flourish the abilities of artists can enable you to progress in your career as an artist. The solutions presented at Help 2 Succeed are not only based on personal experience of the professionals but also on the concrete results of a 6 year survey carried by Help 2 Succeed. Help-2-Succeed.com can definitely help you preserve and flourish your career as an artist.

Fantasy world is a part of every persons imagination but the creative imagination world is quite inspirational during childhood. The heroic figures from the bedtimes stories and fairy tales remains heroic forever and always clings to our sub-conscious no matter what. Fairy tales leave a great impression on children’s thinking, it teaches them valuable morals and lessons. Bed time stories and fairy tales are entertaining and provide opportunity for parent to strengthen the bond with their children. However, entertainment is not the only purpose that these stories serve, fairy tales and bedtime stories shape our lives and character to a greater extent than we might think they do. Not only these stories provide children with a rich experience of imagination and provoke their creativity but these stories also play an extensive role as motivational tools. Children read and listen to these stories and these stories make their imagination run wild, they imagine the places and characters of the stories and idealize the qualities of the heroic characters in these stories, which very often shape up their moral values later through their adult life.

Contemporary fairy tales and children’s books are different and many fairy tales that have been published in recent years lack the ability to capture reader’s interest. It is also hard to find a recent fairy tale that can provide a rich entertaining reading experience because a massive amount of modern fairy tales lack the quality that is required to engage the reader in imaginative experience. However, time to time, some fine piece of work get noticed due to its stand out quality. Once such latest fairy tale is Ti Ana and The Giant by ILIA. Ti Ana and The Giant is a book with several inspiring messages yet highly entertaining and creatively interest provoking. Co-author of Cat Chat Book ILIA is a multi talented artist who enhanced her skills by learning from mentors in several facets of arts. She has been a guest on the Hollywood Television Show “Journey to the Cosmos”. Her writing represents the enormous talent she poses for parable and her gift for allegory.

Here’s what people are saying about Ti Ana and The Giant…
“Awesome. I loved it.” C.B.
“Great fairy tale, allegory, really.” M.B.
“Thank you–beautiful concept and writing.” R.S.T.
“Very Cool!” D.G.
“Thanks for the story. It’s cute!” G.M.
“Thanks for the story, I enjoyed it and passed it on to the kids who enjoyed it, too.” T.J.
“It is a very interesting tale which held my interest waiting for the next development.” L.C.

Since time man has had desired precious and strikingly beautiful stones. Larimar stone is one such magnificent work of nature. Found only in the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean this semi-precious gem has invited many visitors and tourists since its discovery. Now there is a large market for Larimar jewelry all around the world and it is available in the form of pendants, bracelets and necklaces.

Incidentally, this bright and delicate gem is the result of violent processes at extremely high temperatures. Larimar stone is found only in the volcanoes of Dominican Republic and geologists suggest that as the molten lava got pushed to the edge of the chimneys of the volcano, exposure to outer atmosphere caused crystallization. Over a period of thousand years the crystallized rocks started to unwrap due to erosion and as these reached the beaches of Bahoruco River the polishing invigorated. After undergoing this gradual natural process of refinement, this strikingly beautiful stone has evolved as we see it today.

Although, this stone was known and used by the primitive natives of these Caribbean islands much earlier but its discovery in the modern era was made by a Spanish trader Miguel Mendez in 1974. The local fisherman and traders used to find and trade beautiful Larimar stones on the beaches of the Bahoruco River and assumed that its source was the sea. But in 1974 Miguel took some local guides and tried to trace the origin of Larimar stones as he dismissed this theory. They tracked the river upstream for a few days but were unsuccessful until one day while returning from a fruitless errand; they took another track that led to the original location of the larimar stone. Since then, this location in the Dominic Republic has been found as the only source of larimar gems in the world.

Miguel Mendez named the stone after his daughter ‘Larissa’, while ‘Mar’, Spanish word for ‘sea’ was added due to its spectacular color resembling with the sea. After the discovery of the larimar deposit, the samples of the larimar gem were sent to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, where after careful analysis it was concluded that the samples belonged to the pectolite family. Although various forms of pectolite stones have been found in various corners of the globe, yet a pectolite with this brilliant blue color, mainly because of copper, is only specific to the mountain ranges of Dominic Republic.

Gemstones are broadly categorized by experts either as precious stones or semi-precious stones. There are only a few stones that have been classified as precious stones and have immense demand in the gems market. But semi-precious stones like Larimar gem also attract great demand mainly because of their beauty and relatively affordable price. Larimar gemstone due to its color resemblance with the sea, is believed to give its wearer mysterious ability to communicate and transmit messages. It is also firmly believed that the use of Larimar stone enables people to overcome their inner barriers and overcome self-imposed restrictions.

Larimar gemstones are mainly available in different shades and mixtures of blue and green. Due to Larimar gemstone’s breathtaking beauty and its metaphysical features this magnificent work of nature has inelastic demand throughout the world and it is being sold by jewelers in different forms and shapes that appeal to the buyers.

R.Hernandez is a gemstone expert and he has written several articles about larimar stone. To learn more about the dominican larimar visit his website: TheLarimarStore.com.