Picking out a paint color you’ll want to live with for years is perhaps one of the hardest design decisions to make. When we analyze a tiny paint chip, it’s hard for us to imagine how the color will look once brushed across an entire wall. And forget about envisioning how the hue might change…
Land Artist ‘Paints With Pebbles’ to Make Masterpiece Portraits and Lifelike Faces in Jungles of Thailand
Inspired by esoteric Tibetan sand mandalas and their corporeal impermanence, one UK-born artist uses natural landscapes as his canvas, and paints with pebbles of various colors, shapes, and tones to portray earthwork likenesses of Michelangelo’s David and Mark Zuckerberg. A challenging juxtaposition to be sure. But beautiful. And extraordinary. That artist, 45-year-old Justin Bateman, now…
New Zealand Artist Carves Into Layers of Acrylic Paint to Create Breathtakingly Intricate Animal Artworks
January 10, 2022
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A New Zealand artist has found a nonconventional way to use traditional woodcut printmaking tools to create splendidly colorful carved paintings, featuring animal and nature motifs. Following designs drawn lightly in chalk atop painted wooden panels, the artist, Hannah Jensen, 37, from Christchurch, New Zealand, plunges her engraving tool into the still slightly soft acrylic…
Minimize Paint Blistering With Proper Techniques
Dear James: My house has wood siding, which I painted last year. Most of it looks good, but it blistered in some spots and is getting worse. What is the best way to repair it? —Dwight R. Dear Dwight: Blistering can look very bad and generally will get much worse and more widespread over time….
What’s the Point of Painting Directly From Life?
In William R. Davis’s landscape painting, “Late Day Colors,” the last light of the late sun illuminates the sky and sends a shimmer of light onto a lake: It’s the sun’s final hurrah before disappearing behind a distant forest. In another painting, “Bouquet,” by Daniel Caro, a glorious bunch of sunflowers and yellow roses cheerfully…
‘Incredibly Rare’ Elizabethan Wall Paintings From 16th Century Found in Pub in England
November 18, 2021
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A Weatherspoons pub surviving from Elizabethan times has yielded a set of remarkable wall paintings from around 1580—when the establishment was bought by Queen Elizabeth I’s Chief Adviser William Cecil, also known as the Earl of Salisbury. The series of six panels, showing significant wear, portray lavishly dressed figures donning the most fashionable couture of…
Holding on to Eternal Virtues: ‘Farewell’
Change is a fact of life. Sometimes we hurt ourselves by trying to keep things the same forever. We hurt ourselves when we cannot let go of and accept the inevitability of change. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t some things that don’t change; some things are eternal. In 1913, the English painter Arthur Hacker…
Reflecting on Johannes Vermeer, an Exceptional Dutch Master
Since 1742, visitors have delighted in seeing Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window” at the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden, Germany. But the scene is not the same as it was when the painting first left Vermeer’s studio around 1659. In 1742, the elector of Saxony and king of Poland,…
Can’t Paint Your Home? Try These 5 Paint-Free Alternatives Instead
Renting an apartment or house is a cost-effective option for anyone who’s making their first foray into the real estate world or moving somewhere new (No home remodeling costs! No cost of selling a house to worry about!) but living in a temporary space can cramp anyone’s interior design game. Although you pay a monthly…
Painting Bought at a Flea Market Turns Out to Be Stolen Work of Renowned French Artist
An antique shop owner from England has discovered that a customer’s painting purchased at a flea market was once stolen from a museum and is a rare collection of French artist Eugene Boudin, whose work has sold for 1.5 million pounds (approx. US$2.1 million). Old Bank Antiques’s boss Jon White said that the lady whom…
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