“There is a story,” Bianca Nemelc told us about the bodies in her paintings in an interview a few years back. “It usually starts with the pose, and I add the rest of the environment. And a lot of times what I’m playing around with is, how does she interact? […]
Painting Appraisal
A Massive Illuminated Eye of 100,000 Lights Twinkles Above a Madrid Plaza — Colossal
Art Design #Brut Deluxe #eyes #installation #light #public art #video December 12, 2022 Grace Ebert All photos by ImagenSubliminal / Miguel de Guzman + Rocio Romero,, courtesy of Brut Deluxe, shared with permission Now on view in Madrid’s Plaza de Canalejas is a gleaming eye that peers both downward at those […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Color Mixing with Liquid Watercolor
This post is long overdue! I know I have promised to video my color mixing with liquid watercolor for quite some time. The truth is, mixing this medium is not as easy as mixing tempera paints. It is far from an exact science. Part of that reason is that liquid watercolors […]
How Sustainable Art Can Make a Difference in Your Life
I didn’t realize that denim jeans were so damaging to the environment until I saw Libby Newell’s sustainable art on the walls of a gallery. The cotton plant consumes a lot of water, and then the process of dying the jeans — including any specialty washes— is reliant on […]