Here's a wonderful sketchnote from Scott Torrance of my buddy Austin Kleon's talk about his book, Steal Like an Artist . I love how Scott was able to boil this sketchnote down to a single page using 10 blocks — that's a cool way to challenge yourself when you sketchnote — set limitations.
As a writer who works with visual artists, I was inspired to address Iris Jaffe’s recent post, "The Anti-artist-statement Statement." “I hate artist statements,” Iris began. “As an artist, they are almost always awkward and painful to write, and as a viewer they are similarly painful and uninformative to read.” No! I disagree!
For many years, the Swedish, female talent (whose works are on display at the Guggenheim in New York at this very moment) was unknown to most of the art world. It wasn’t until the 1980s,…
Swiss artist Andy Denzler depicts a hazy, abstract world in these oil on canvas paintings. The works are a collection of muted scenes, distorted by smears
Explore Kate Castelli's 158 photos on Flickr!
On paper, she is Britain's lost surrealist; an English debutante who cut herself off from her wealthy family, fell in love with Max Ernst and eloped with him to Paris, finding herself in the centre of surrealist movement. Separated from Ernst by war, she later ended up in Mexico, and became one of t
In 2018 before and throughout the pandemic period, I commenced a series of paintings that pays homage to the guitar and accessories used in rock music. During a time when I personally felt constrained due to health problems and then as part of the community because of the stifling effect of pandemic lockdowns and mask-wearing, I turned to the noise of an electric guitar as a vehicle to be heard. I guess the electric guitar became a beacon of communication to me like the pot and pan-clanging percussion sessions in the cities across Italy during their pandemic lockdowns.
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A look at the work of artist Damian Elwes. A stunning series of historically accurate renderings of other artists' studios.
"10 Minute Poetry" is my own weekly poet's game; one in which I write an original piece of poetry, with nothing but a given title, in ten minutes.
* The other day I was doing some Internet search when I found Art Venti, an artist born in 1949 in New York City. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. I am blown away by his dra…
La scultrice Camille Claudel divenne l'allieva e l'amante del grande artista. Un connubio artistico e sentimentale lungo 30 anni...
Have you ever been caught off-guard by a visual tangent in your art? When creating a composition there are so many different things to juggle that it's easy to miss even the obvious flaws - and that’s when tangents sneak in.
With its giant strawberries and nudity, Hieronymus Bosch’s painting has been seen as a celebration and warning about sin – but it’s really about a Renaissance-era curiosity that helped better explain the world
South Korean artist Minjeong An created these astonishingly detailed diagram self-portraits. To see more, take a look at this gallery of Minjeong's
František Kupka, Water, The Bather, 1906-9. O/C 63 x 79 cm, Pompidou. Source: Painting the Universe-Kupka-Pioneer in Abstraction.
Exhibition dates: 20th February – 12th April 2009 Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932) 9.4.89 10.1 x 14.8cm Oil on colour photograph There is something unsettling in …
Steve Cutts is a London-based illustrator and animator who uses powerful images to criticize the sad state of society. Greed, environmental destruction, junk food and TV consumption, smartphone addiction and the exploitation of animals are
Use this art discussion lesson for children, featuring work by Henri Matisse, to get children thinking and talking about art. If you haven’t tried art discussion activities before it’s easy to get started, and you’ll soon discover how they open up conversations and ideas, boosting children’s language, reasoning and confidence. Art discussion lesson for children […]
On the eve of a major exhibition on the printmaker, painter and poet, Fiona Maddocks chooses her 10 favourite works
Read about the troubled life and mosaic-like art of Russia's symbolist painter Mikhail Vrubel.
"Show him it's a woman's world."
Do you love and use anchor charts as much as I do? Then you are going to love these 60+ Must Make Kindergarten Anchor Charts! Why anchor charts in Kindergarten? I use anchor charts almost every day a
Hu JunDi (胡峻涤) impressionist chinese painter. Born in 1962 in Jilin Province, China. He graduated from Sichuan Fine Art Institute in 1984. Hu’s work has been exhibited and collected in China and other Asian countries as well as in Europe and America.
Learn all about the art of visual poetry and how to craft your own!
Are you ready to learn what your powers of focus and perception can reveal about your greatest strengths?
Von 25. Oktober bis 7. November wird Wien wieder zur Filmfestivalstadt - derStandard.at/Kultur verlost Karten für ausgewählte Filme bei der Viennale
18-year-old Harry Hambley is the artist behind Ketnipz comics. The UK-based artist chose a simple fun style to present his ideas. The main character of his webcomics is a unique but still relatable pink bean-shaped persona.
