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 Keep smiling. It's Halloween and we've all managed to hang in there another year.

Get younger hands with massages. Younger hand.    The beauty and softness of the hands are evidence of youth and health. It is possible that...

 In 1996 Turner Interactive produced a CD-Rom game called Dinotopia: Living the Adventure.   This YouTube review  by Simone de Rochefort of ...

A gang of spacebiker aliens are lined up at the bar, sucking the juice out of fermented jakey melons. Their transparent braincases pulsate ...

 Scientists have succeeded in mapping the neurons and connections of a fruit fly brain. "A population of neurons that is responsible fo...

  Sarah Bernhardt by Paul Merton Sarah Bernhardt was a French actress who lived from 1844-1923. Sarah Bernhardt in the Role of Cleopatra by...

Vladimir Makovsky (1846-1920)  Lover of Painting. Portrait of Collector I.V. Tsvetkov, 1907

I want to paint the autumn leaves before they’re gone. In this  new YouTube video , I also share Sonnet #73 from William Shakespeare: That ...

Something disturbed the deep waters of Rondout Creek. View this post on Instagram A post shared by James Gurney (@james...

A growing number of art museums have teamed up with practicing artists to explore the painting methods of historical painters.     Watercol...

In 1980 Tom Kinkade (yes, that Kinkade) and I decided to take a summer off from art school to ride the freight trains across America from ...

By thinking of a tree as an individual organism, we misunderstand it. It's better to think of a tree as a colony of branches. According ...

In Vincent van Gogh's sunflower paintings, some of the red lead pigments have turned white because of the reactions of paint impurities ...

Our eyes work with our brain to make sense of the world.  At any given moment our conscious attention is fixated on one spot, but we're ...

Jules Bastien-Lepage, Portrait of my Grandfather, 1874 In his autobiography, Jules Breton said: "[Jules] Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) w...

Will and Cirrus lead the skybax races around ancient demisaurian monuments near Ebulon in Dinotopia's great desert. The painting is 3 x ...

FACE MASKS TO IMPROVE YOUR SKIN  Five face masks to improve your skin Face masks.  The face mask improves your complexion, reduces stress, a...

Watercolor can convey a lot of information with simple means. Cornelius Varley This looks like a practice sheet to try different ways of cap...

Top 6 tips for healthy hair Healthy hair. 6 tips every girl should know to take care of her hair:     Every girl dreams of having soft and s...

J.M.W. Turner's super-portable watercolor set consisted of a small set of cake colors in a leather pocket pouch. He also had slightly la...

In a new YouTube video  I show how I painted this moody morning scene in gouache by sacrificing detail and emphasizing light effects. My go...

When the Artists Magazine asked "Who's a painter that changed the course of landscape painting?" the first name that popped in...

 Which is more important for face recognition: outline or tonal shapes? Jim Carrey (left) and Kevin Costner. According to vision scientists ...

Tête d'expression  was a traditional art-school exercise involving "a study of the face intended to evoke a particular state of min...