29 days ago | Painting the Day Away

40 x 40 cm oil on canvas, to be framed All items purchased in France on a trip last year. I tried a different brand of oil paint than my usual one and found it so different...
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Altered Christmas Ornaments with Paper Clay

30 days ago | Friends in Art

These 2 little clear plastic ornaments were really fun to decorate. I've had them on my worktable for a couple of weeks, but just found time last weekend to give them a new and...
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Floathub Project Takes Aim at Sweden's Housing Crisis

1 month ago | Arch Daily

Floathub. Image Courtesy of Daniela Lamartine Architect Daniela Lamartine has designed a floating community to address Sweden's national housing crisis. Called Floathub , the...
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Venison Grind

1 month ago | Analog Artist Digital World

Over the Christmas holidays, Pam Schwartz and I went to her parents house in Iowa. Deer hunting season started September 15, 2018 and ends January 27, 2019. A local TV news...
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Getting started. or not

1 month ago | Dorothy Lorenze

Beginning the New Year with all kinds of good intentions is a time-honored tradition. But you know what, the timing is ridiculous! Most of us actually begin January a bit...
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Somewhere Out There. Beyond Words

1 month ago | Journaling With Paint

I had almost decided to forego posting this New Year's message. Given the extreme discomfort that Deb and I have both felt during this entire Christmas season most of you would...
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Terraces of the Lake / Morph Studio

1 month ago | Arch Daily

© Héctor Santos-Díez Architects: Morph Studio Location: C / María de las Mercedes de Borbón 162-174 Valdebebas, Madrid, Spain Architect In Charge: César Frías Enciso, Miguel...
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A Different View

2 monthes ago | Sometimes a Painting

Once Upon the South is a 12x9 oil painted from life by Shirley Fachilla.If you're a regular reader of this blog, you may know that I belong to The Chestnuts , plein air...
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A $6 IKEA Desk Pad Can Help Remove Stuck Lens Filters

2 monthes ago | Peta Pixel

How hard is it to remove a stuck filter on a camera lens? If it happens with a slim profile filter, you are left with less of a surface to grip. I tried the rubber band method...
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Critic's Pick: ‘If Beale Street Could Talk' Review: Trusting Love in a World Ruled by Hate

2 monthes ago | NY Times

The couple in this adaptation of James Baldwin's novel are loving while black, an existential truth that is turned into a nightmare.
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Emma Elliott presents new marble sculptures at on form 18

Emma Elliott is one of forty sculptors selected for on form 18, a biennial exhibition of sculpture in stone at Asthall Manor in the Cotswolds. She joins world renowned and... Read more ...

Birds, Contemporary Colorful Landscape Painting, Mixed Media, Trees, Fine...

I love exaggerating the colors of the objects I paint but in this painting I tried to calm them down. I wanted to express the feeling of rest after going through a “storm”. The... Read more ...

Murray Centre, Downe House School / Design Engine Architects

Courtesy of Design Engine Architects Architects: Design Engine Architects Location: Downe House Hermitage Rd Col, Hermitage Rd, Cold Ash, Thatcham RG18 9JJ, United... Read more ...

OMA / Shohei Shigematsu to Reimagine Sotheby's New York Headquarters

Flower Still Life, Small Oil Painting, Daily Painting, 6x8

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Centennial house / IGASO architects & planners

Light Vault / Chamberlain Architects

RoamCouch in Honolulu, Hawaii

Japanese street artist Ryo Ogawa, better know as RoamCouch, recently flew to Hawaii to participate in POW! WOW! HAWAII 2019. After one month of preparing a hand-cut stencil, he... Read more ...

Samsung Galaxy Fold has the First True Folding Screen and 6 Cameras

Samsung today kicked off a new mobile category with its pioneering Galaxy Fold. The device features a 7.3-inch folding screen and 6 cameras. It's a smartphone and tablet... Read more ...

Land of Dreams, New Contemporary Landscape Painting by Sheri Jones

Land of Dreams8x10 oil on board This is the third in my series of playing with color. I had fun coming up with this color combination and working with the texture created by... Read more ...

Abstract Music Art Painting, Oil Painting, “Bach Invention” by Texas Artist...

FRESH OFF THE EASEL.. 18"x24" x1.5" Palette Knife Oil Painting on Gallery Wrapped Canvas/Available Read more ...