نوفمبر 2020

When you look at this shape, what do you see?  An animal or a person in a costume, or just an abstract shape?  If you flip the shape over, a...

John Wesley Jarvis  (1781-1839) was an American portrait painter who streamlined his process so that he could produce six portraits a week. ...

Theatrical backdrops were painted at a large scale to provide the atmosphere and setting behind the actors and props on the stage. Some were...

One way to capture light is to surround it with darkness.  The photographs of Fan Ho, who explored Hong Kong in the 1950s, often use this pr...

To gather the reference for "Birthday Pageant," I hired a costume maker to sew the dresses, arranged silk flowers in basket bouque...

Snowstorm in the Churchyard, Karlsruhe,  19.7 x 39.1 cm (7.7 x 15.3 in)  Anton von Werner (German 1843-1915) conveys  the feeling of a windy...

I've always been interested in stepping outside contemporary preoccupations to look for historical antecedents or parallels. In 18th cen...

When Joe Bowler (1928-2016) was just starting out as an illustrator he got a job as an apprentice for the legendary Cooper Studios in New Yo...

Starting with a yellow underpainting puts "fire in the belly" of a gray painting. The yellow layer is made up of a thin layer of c...

Concept artist and illustrator Simon Stålenhag directed this mysterious music video called "Geronimo," sung by Nadia Nair. ( Link ...

In  this 10 minute podcast,  cognitive psychologist Dr. James Dunn talks about "super recognizers." These individuals have an extr...

On Mars, the colors of the sunset are reversed from what we're used to seeing on Earth.  Sunset at Gusev Crater: The Sun sinks below the...

Linda says: "As a watercolorist ready to try some new media, I am still confused about the difference in the effects of gouache and cas...