Week 2 of my acrylic painting class for kids age 9-14. Let me start by saying I research A LOT!!! My premise for this painting class is: If I don’t have fun painting the same project as an …

Mary Blair’s two nieces Jeanne Chamberlain and Maggie Richardson have created a new website celebrating the life and work of their aunt. They very kindly allowed me to use information from t…

Quelle est l'Histoire du Sanctuaire de Notre-Dame de Lourdes ? Nous avons décidé de vous partager cet article sur l'Histoire et l'origine du Sanctuaire.

Exploring life and art through the lens of my faith. Art journaling transforms our words and thoughts into images.

The name of Mary Anning has been virtually erased from the history of science, despite the fact that this industrious woman made a fundamentally important

When summer is back... Let's take advantage of the sun and do a little bit of sun printing! It's fun and easy! Quand les beaux jours reviennent ...Profitons de l'été pour faire de l'impression au soleil! C'est amusant et facile! Take a plastic covered cardboard or a wood plank. Tape several pieces of different fabrics on its surface. (White or light colors work better). Prenez un carton ou une planche recouverts de plastique. Collez-y, au moyen de ruban adhésif, plusieurs morceaux de tissus. (Le blanc ou les couleurs claires conviennent mieux). Gather some fresh or dried plants, as well as some small objects. Rassemblez des plantes fraîches ou sèches, de même que de petits objets. Spray the fabrics with clear water. Sprayez les tissus avec de l'eau claire. Quickly paint the fabrics with textile paint, keeping the whole very wet. Peignez rapidement les tissus avec de la peinture textile, en gardant le tout bien humide. Place plants or objets right away. Don't wait! Leave the fabric in direct sun for one or two hours. Placez les plantes tout de suite, n'attendez pas! Laissez les tissus au soleil pour une ou deux heures. I did some trials and I think plain fabrics work better. I'm no textile paint specialist, so I took whatever I had as far as textile paints at home, and they all worked well. I know that there are some special paints for sun printing on the market, but never tried them. I've made a few textile cards with my sun prints, J'ai fait des essais et je trouve que les tissus unis conviennent mieux. Je ne suis pas une spécialiste des peintures textiles, j'ai donc pris les peintures textiles que j'ai trouvé dans mes placards. Elles ont toutes bien marché. Je sais qu'il existe des peintures exprès pour l'impression au soleil dans le commerce mais je ne les ai jamais essayées. J'ai fait des cartes textiles avec mes impressions soleil. More on sun printing / Impression au soleil, encore: http://maryandpatch.blogspot.ch/2015/09/sun-printing-impression-au-soleil.html

Tenues à l'écart des conditions propices à la création artistique, peu de femmes ont réussi à accéder au statut d'écrivain. Celles qui sont parvenues à s'imposer ont du reste été reléguées, bien souvent, au second plan. Retour sur l'une de ces artistes déclassées : Mary Shelley.

Images of the Virgin, pale, limp, crying with her eyes rolled back in her head do not appeal to me. I like great art and not shoddy paintings or modern images which border on the obscene. So, I hav…

Remote learning. The novelty has well and truly worn off. Turning up to a computer screen in the morning is not what I signed up for when I became a teacher. But I guess, what many of us are going through at the moment isn't exactly what we signed up for! And so it's been

I’m so lucky to have a 10-year-old child because she asks me the best questions and demands answers. This weeks question was – How do you paint waves? And thus started my lesson plan…

Joachim Patinir, Bouvignes? 1475/80 - Antwerpen 1515/24 Maria mit schlafendem Kind in einer Landschaft - Mary with the sleeping child in a landscape – Detail (ca. 1520) Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt Joachim Patinir, der aus der Gegend um Dinant stammte, erhielt seine Ausbildung vermutlich in der Werkstatt von Gerard David in Brügge und wurde später Mitglied der Antwerpener Lukasgilde. Wie viele Maler des 16. Jahrhunderts spezialisierte sich auch Patinir auf ein gestimmtes Genre und wurde der erste echte Landschaftsmaler in den Niederlanden. Albrecht Dürer bezeichnete ihn als "der gut landschaft maler" und dies war die erste Erwähnung des Wortes "Landschaft" im Deutschen. Für das gesamte Gemälde siehe / For the complete painting see: www.flickr.com/photos/hen-magonza/29428169780/in/photolis...

Watercolor artist Mary Elle demonstrates her process for painting the sandstone cliffs of Petra, Jordan.

With just two ingredients, this fun bubble painting activity will have your children spellbound! Who doesn't love to blow bubbles!

A series of art-historic line drawings for your coloring page fun. You are free to save and print these for personal, educational and non-commercial purposes.

Afte the Blessed Virgin, St. Philomena, the Wonderworker was St. John Vianney's favorite saint. This is my favorite image of her.

​Have you ever seen a beautiful piece of watercolor art and thought “I want to paint like that”? Many budding artists hold back because they just don’t know how to start painting in watercolors. I think that’s too bad. Because I believe the joy of creating with watercolors is within anybody’s reach. Some people simply

The French academic painter Hugues Merle gained acclaim during his lifetime for his idealised depictions of family life and of historical and religious subjects. He was often associated with his friend and rival, William-Adolphe Bouguereau; in fact, their shared dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, urged Bouguereau to add to his pictorial repertoire Merle's interpretation of familial love, which had defined his most successful Salon entries during the 1840s through the 1960s. Whether imaging modern-day Madonnas with children, Susanna at her bath, or, as here, Mary Magdelene, Merle favoured emotion-filled, often seductive, facial expressions and languid bodies to connote drama and pathos. Indeed, his Mary Magdelene emerges as the enraptured captive of Christ's love. [Heritage Auctions - Oil on canvas, 45.1 x 59.7 cm]

For some reason these won't stay turned

Order Mary Poppins in Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital Download.

Today we’re sharing our process and the huge impact painting our tile floors in the jack and jill bathroom at the Touch Gold Project made! We partnered with Rust-Oleum and it was beyond easy!