Have you ever wondered what it would be like if people in Renaissance paintings smiled a little more? A simple smile can light up a painting. These days, smiling for a selfie takes mere seconds, imagine having to smile and pose for hours in front of a painter to get your portrait taken. Now imagine that we could see what it would be like if the people depicted in the paintings smiled.

Finalist Doug Moran 1994 Portrait Prize. Australia

Andrea Mantegna - Portrait of a man [1470-75] Gesichter der Renaissance faces catalogue no. 156 Berlin Bode Museum Besançon Musée des Beaux Arts

Sofonisba Anguissola Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532 – 16 November 1625) is the third Renaissance artist we are discussing. She is considered a Mannerist painter. Sofonisba was the oldest of s…

“It’s a world that’s not always joyful,” the Brooklyn-based painter says. “There’s strife but also reward, love and tenderness but also evil.”

How to Draw Faces Like a Renaissance Master. This is a lesson by studying artist and sculptor Leonardo da Vinci to learn face proportion.

Discover the key role color temperature plays in painting skin tones that have a realistic 'life' to them. Along with how to start mixing skin tone colors!

Photographer Gregory Masouras, 26, started to attract the attention of many, including design, photography, and fashion professionals, when he began posting strange-yet-effective photo manipulations of paradisiacal landscapes of Athens and Disney princesses on his Instagram. He candidly admits that in 2012, his #AnimationInReality project started just because he wanted to test the camera of his new smartphone by taking pictures of Athens. But one fateful day, he saw a cloud shaped like a Batman logo. While he was doing some photo editing, the idea was born. The plan worked and grew steadily, giving rise to new digital art projects.

Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello ("The Little Barrel") was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance. Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age". His posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting, and The Birth of Venus and Primavera rank now among the most familiar masterpieces of Florentine art.

Discover the key role color temperature plays in painting skin tones that have a realistic 'life' to them. Along with how to start mixing skin tone colors!