The artist opens a portal through which a viewer can observe the artist’s perspective of the world. The history of the discipline of mark making offers a multitude of perspectives from which all ...

Another important idea is separation: clearly distinguishing foreground, midground and background through contrast, edges and ...

It can give hours of pleasure, with the possibility of making a masterpiece: so what’s not to love about taking up drawing and painting? As children we drew, and coloured in with wild sweeping ...

Microsoft Paint is no more. It has ceased to be. It is an ex-program. Or rather, it will be, once Microsoft gives it the shove from the Windows 10 Fall Creator’s Update later this year. Sure, it’ll be ...

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We’re losing traditional artistic techniques, one critic laments – but others say this view is outdated In a new paper, What Happened to the Art Schools?, the painter and art critic Jacob Willer ...

The painting and drawing areas at Smith explore contemporary art practices through a wide range of stylistic approaches that emphasize what makes each medium so exciting. We have two dedicated ...