I always felt that I lacked the vision to pluck some hidden treasure from a thrift store, Craigslist, or flea market and turn it into something amazing. Well, recently an opportunity arose that challenged me to do just that.
Could Vincent van Gogh's acidic sense of color and preference for bright, clashing hues, long the province of the Fauves, be a result of colorblindnes...
The Botswana-born painter Meleko Mokgosi, whose large-scale, multi-panel compositions grapple with conditions in postcolonial Africa through jarringly...
My goal was to shift the visual language back further in time, keeping the element of spontaneity, but enhancing the plastic quality of the paint, thus creating the potential for a more thorough, or deeper, execution.
A one-off painting might come from any old idea; many of their origins would be dull to describe. But a series of paintings, as in the case of the Blue Leahs, often has an interesting genesis.
BISMARCK, N.D. -- Jim Deitz believes he's creating a Grand Forks landmark, but the downtown apartment house he's painting one polka dot at a time is m...
Manila is one of the five most polluted cities in the world, and a paint company recently decided to try a unique approach to combatting airborne toxi...
Robert Davidovitz creates mesmerizing paintings without ever touching a brush. Instead the multidisciplinary Canadian artist combines painting, sculpt...
Watch pristine, white objects gush orange paint. We guarantee that after viewing a couple of them they will start to look extremely bizarre, mystical,...
The mistakes make the rhyme of creative bent. The drawer's inaccuracies take the visage away from just image and turns into a signpost for your heart; that turns the image away from the original source and into Art.
The Hohle Fels cave in southern Germany has yielded yet another startling archeological discovery -- the oldest evidence of human painting ever found ...
WASHINGTON -- If you've noticed something different at the Woodward & Lothrop building at 11th and G streets NW downtown, you're right: The historic p...
You've always had two options when it came to message boards: Either go for one that looked straight out of an office, or straight out of a kindergart...
Imagine driving into Annapolis along Rowe Boulevard or sailing into the city's harbor, glancing up toward the tiered State House dome, and seeing that...
If you've noticed your favorite Van Goghs getting darker, it's not because you've caught the troubled Dutch painter's depression. Some of the master P...
Whether you're gutting the whole thing or just want at small refresh, redoing your place is the perfect opportunity to incorporate some green elements...
The myth about Alzheimer's is that it is a veritable death sentence. But as the filmmakers demonstrate, the creative arts can reunite even a late stage Alzheimer's sufferer with parts of his/her former self.