Candy Still Life: Prismacolor Colored Pencils and Denatured Alcohol

1 day ago | The Helpful Art Teacher

My students started out by arranging their candy on a small blank index card. I required them to overlap the pieces of candy at least three times and to create an arrangement...
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Appearance Transfer

4 days ago | Gurney Journey

Computer networks are able to generate photographically realistic images from a simple written description. They can recognize and distinguish the various elements in a photo...
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Alberto Kalach: 'We Have Been Deforesting for Hundreds of Years & We Have Not Given Ourselves the Task of Recovering It'

4 days ago | Arch Daily

Alberto Kalach is a Mexican architect whose career has focused on creating site-specific works that blend into the natural environment. In his most recent exhibition in Mexico...
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John making a funny face portrait. by Kim Blair

6 days ago | Kim Blair Artist

John (14"x11" pastel on 300 lb. gessoed w.c. paper) John is a good sport! I asked him to send me a few selfies to choose from for his portrait... he included a couple of funny...
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Boom at Theater on the Edge

8 days ago | Analog Artist Digital World

In the Boom pre show, video monitors announced the upcoming performance as if we were in line for a theme park attraction like Carousel of Progress at Disney World. Barbara, is...
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Paint Autumn Trees: Quick Video Demo

12 days ago | Kem Studios

'Maine Woods' 9x12 pastel ©Karen Margulis Enjoy this post from the Archives! I was so inspired that I had to get down into my studio to paint. The chores had to wait. Once I am...
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Light Duel: An Animation Made with 300 Light-Painting Photos

13 days ago | Peta Pixel

Light-painting artist Darren Pearson created this short animation titled “Light Duel.” The 14-second film was created using 300 long-exposure photos with light drawings that...
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Laura's portrait by Kim Blair

13 days ago | Kim Blair Artist

Laura(or as I like to call her in this portrait...'Laura of Green Gables') (14"x11" pastel on 300 lb. gessoed w.c. paper) My friend Laura loves animals... dogs in particular...
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Library Video Interviews

14 days ago | Analog Artist Digital World

After Story Corps conducted each interview on the library's top floor, staff would escort people down to the Dorothy Lumley Melrose Center where a video interview was done to...
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How to Start a Landscape Painting from an Abstract

14 days ago | Kem Studios | 2 articles

'A Flash of Red' 8x10 pastel ©Karen Margulis I'm not about to waste a good piece of Uart paper. So when I saw this piece on the pile I had an idea. It was covered with red and...
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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 ...

Swann's way

A Gouache Landscape by Moran

American painter Thomas Moran (1837-1926) used gouache for many of his landscape paintings. Thomas Moran , Summit of the Sierras, 1872-1875 , 360 x 250mm, about 14... Read more ...

Post Story Corps Interviews

A mom and daughter discussed how the library Children's Business Fair was a supportive environment for Super Soaps , an idea that won the $50 prize for the Highest business... Read more ...

Sunday Mailbag: You Forgot Gerard Butler

Q: I love your “Dracula” print, but you forgot to include Gerard Butler, who played him in “Dracula 2000”, and what is Grandpa Munster doing in there? A: I get this or similar... Read more ...

Words of Wisdom for Artists

'Summer Love' 9x12 pastel ©Karen Margulis sold My house is full of the joy and laughter of my children and grandchildren. I had a minute go into the studio to check on my email... Read more ...

Armistice Day

Italian-born British illustrator Fortunino Matania captured the frenzied joy as news of the end of the "Great War" echoed through Europe on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the... Read more ...

Candy Still Life: Prismacolor Colored Pencils and Denatured Alcohol

My students started out by arranging their candy on a small blank index card. I required them to overlap the pieces of candy at least three times and to create an arrangement... Read more ...

The Crack of Heinz

Saturday Leftover Day. Over the last few years I have been slowly sharing an almost complete run of Van Heinz' Dawn O'Day Sundays. Val Heinz is noted to have started with... Read more ...

Blog Award!

My blog has been awarded as one of the top 25 Drawing blogs!! blogs/ Read more ...

Rocktober

October has come and gone and that means that the Inktober event has come and gone till next year, however my ink drawings or Wind Downs will continue. I was only able to get... Read more ...

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