مايو 2021

  Anton Dieffenbach, (1831-1914). Window, 1856, Height: 36.5 cm (14.3 in); Width: 25.1 cm (9.8 in), Met Museum

Neurobiologist Susan R. Barry was an adult when she acquired depth perception for the first time. "Barry had been cross-eyed and stereo...

Does it improve a landscape painting to add small figures? Figures can give a sense of scale; they can let viewers project themselves into t...

The Clothesline by J.G. The summer sky coaxes the dripping wetness From the yellow tee, the blue jeans, And the red flannel shirt. The bree...

Gabriel Ritter von Max (1840-1915) painted satirical pictures of monkeys in human roles. He earned the nickname  “Affenmaler,” (monkey pain...

The results of our recent Painting Challenge: Abandoned House were so moving and fascinating that it was hard to choose the finalists. Inst...

In this new YouTube video , I paint a pile of firewood in watercolor and gouache.  As I progress, I describe the mental models of visual per...

Russian landscape painter Vladimir Polenov attended the social events arranged by  Alexey Bogolyubov  (1824–1896), whose house in Paris fel...

Bird songs take on a whole new dimension when you see them visualized in a spectrogram. Time moves from left to right; higher pitches are hi...

Henry Stacey Marks (1829-1898), Science is Measurement, 1879 Henry Stacey Marks's 1879 painting Science is Measurement was his diploma ...

Cecil Calvert Beall  - Catherine La Rose  C. Calvert Beall (American, 1892 -1967) was an American illustrator who created images for the pop...

 In this quick ink drawing, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) captures a moment in silhouette.  John Singer Sargent, Four Figures,  14 x 10&q...

This little feature on the making of "Three Little Pigs" features Walt Disney in a brainstorm session with animators Ward Kimball ...

  Erulo Eroli is an Italian painter whose preferred themes were religious subjects, historical reconstructions, and landscapes. Erulo Eroli,...

During World War II, leaders in Britain needed to recruit more women to work in the ordnance factories. Dame Laura Knight,  Ruby Loftus Scre...

There's just a week left for the "Paint an Abandoned House" challenge. Here are the main points: Charles Burchfield (1893-1967...

Frank Short, Ebb Tide, Putney Bridge , mezzotint , 1885 Frank Short (1857 - 1945) was a British printmaker and translator engraver. He wor...

Can you draw with colored pencils on the surface of dry casein paint? Well, sort of. Usually casein dries with a surface that doesn't ta...

In many different unrelated animals, a dark facial stripe runs from the snout to the eye.  Directly above the eyestripe is a bright white li...

Irish Bridge, 2002, 8 x 10, oil on panel The setting sun illuminates a bridge with parallel bands of light and cast shadows that you have t...