If you’ve ever want to see what an art collection worth $1.5 billion looks like, you can review images on the Christies website of the collection of the late Paul Allen – the co-founder of Microsoft. It’s a truly amazing collection and well worth drooling over. I’ve seen a number […]
Month: April 2024
The Top 5 Benefits of Daily Painting — Caryl Fine Art
I am a huge believer in building time into each and every day to paint. I advocate this consistent practice for both beginner and expert painters alike! The beautiful thing about art and painting is that there is always room for growth and exploration, and the best way to do […]
Nocturne Notes – John Lasater
Nocturne Notes John Lasater Old Piazza 16 x 20″ Oil In our fascination with how the eye sees and then translates the world around us to our brains, we have found it particularly interesting to […]
The Stage as a “Living Concept” in Turkey’s Performance Art
ISTANBUL and ESKİŞEHİR, Turkey — In a windowless room in a museum in western Turkey, performance artist Ata Doğruel is living in complete darkness: a continuous blackout for 40 days and 40 nights, interrupted only when a candle-bearing visitor enters his chamber. In an audience note posted outside the entrance, […]
Joseph Farquharson RA – my daily art display
Self Portrait (1882) We are approaching a time when we have to expect very cold weather and for some of us the oncoming of snow. So as we are at the beginning of the Christmas month I thought I would treat you to some snowy scenes by one of the […]
Small but Mighty: Nano-Cellulose Applications in Photograph Conservation | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker
By Marissa Maynard The Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) superb photography collection encompasses the history of the medium and offers a tremendous range, from cased photographs to salted paper prints to colored digital prints. For most photographic processes, the image layer is composed of silver particles in an emulsion. Some […]
Artists Nana del Riego And Demián “Chango” Mohar Collaborate On The Iconoclassic Series
Cuban photographer Nana del Riego and Mexican artist Demián “Chango” Mohar have teamed up to create the Iconoclassic Series. A new series of works focuses on the artist’s shared subject matters of mass consumption, cultural appropriation, and aesthetic appropriation, which are crucial to both artists and their practice. Del Riego and Monhar‘s new series […]
Samsung Tab S6 Lite 2022 vs iPad 10 (2022) for drawing
This is my artist and graphic designer comparison of the Samsung Tab S6 Lite (2022) and iPad 10 (2022). If you’re interested in the full review for these two tablets, just see the reviews that I’ve already written with the links provided earlier. Here are the differences between the two […]
Artist Review: Samsung Tab S6 Lite (2022)
Review unit on loan from Samsung Singapore This is my artist review of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (2022). Samsung released the Galaxy Tab S6 in Aug 2019, the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite in May 2020 and now the updated Galaxy Tab S6 Lite in May 2022. Official retail […]
The Ultimate Geek Bucket List: 50 Things to Do Before You Die
Part to-do list, part flight of fancy, but 100% geek-approved, here are 50 things any true geek should do, see, or experience in their lifetime. OK, so you are a self-proclaimed geek and want to make the most of your life before you shuffle off this mortal coil and onto […]