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Kim Kardashian Makeup, skincare, haircare, and beauty secrets Kim Kardashian beauty secrets. Many women wonder about the secret behind the b...

Clothes Drying, 1883 Helene Schjerfbeck's early paintings were influenced by French realism and impressionism.  Helene Schjerfbeck (Fin...

Find a feather? What bird is it from?  By law you're not supposed to possess feathers from wild birds (in order to protect birds from be...

I'm working on an article about the uses of tracing paper. I'm trying to recall all the varieties of transparent paper and their cha...

14-year-old Graysen Sullivan created a nifty Minecraft map of Waterfall City.

Cody asks: "Did you give your dinosaurs facial expressions?" Answer: Yes, I tried that idea in Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara . I ...

In this new  YouTube video  I paint the view from my breakfast window: snow on the rhododendron, with juncos perched on top. Strap on your h...

 Dinosaur nannies help out busy human parents. From Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time .

View this post on Instagram A post shared by James Gurney (@jamesgurneyart) My article in the new issue of ImagineFX ...

American artist Edward Simmons created the painting "The Carpenter's Son" (Paris 1888, RA 1889) imagines young Jesus as a boy ...

American painter Edward Simmons (1852-1931) was an eyewitness to how Anders Zorn painted in watercolor: "Zorn was one of those artists...

View this post on Instagram I had opinions about sight-size viewers until I built a "Gurney Grid" and tried it out. ...

In this new YouTube video , I paint a 1929 biplane at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome using casein paint.  Art Supplies Richeson casein paint se...

"Melodiya" by Ukranian composer Myroslav Skoryk was the encore of last night's live concert by The Orchestra Now in Hudson, N...

  A guy from the engine room in Tunisia saw me sketching and asked if I would draw his portrait. When I was done he took a picture of the sk...

"Confetti" is a term for small, colorful paint strokes that resolve into suggestive detail in the viewer’s eye. You can find confe...

County Tipperary, Ireland, plein air oil, 8 x 10" (20.3 x 25.4 cm), 1994. On this trip I decide not to rent a car. I just bum rides fr...

A few years before the Hagfish was sunk by rebels, it appeared in the harbor of Poseidos, near the place where Gideon Altaire made his escap...

Blog reader Jeff Jordan asks: "I was wondering if you're using gouache strictly as a sketching medium, or if you've done or are...

 The giant Camarasaurus walks gracefully along, as Ornithomimuses dash by with the speed of ostriches. There will be plenty of time for swim...

Levka Gambo offers Will and Sylvia hot buttered tea and and blankets of woven fur after their arduous climb to the Tentpole of the Sky, a re...

  The Arch of Septimius Severus, sketched on location in watercolor, inspired the Roman-style architecture in Sauropolis, Dinotopia.

Chen ZhongSen carved 5,000 characters on a piece of stone that's only 33 x 70 cm (13.3 x 28 inches).  The characters form two poems: ...

In 1954, painter Graham Sutherland (1903-1980) was specially commissioned by the House of Commons and the House of Lords to paint a portrai...

How many of you remember American Artist Magazine? Before the Internet it was the place to learn about realist painters like Richard Schmid,...