Painting Concepts

Have you ever stopped to think about how an eraser (or rubber) works? Is it entirely down to friction, or is it stickiness? About.com Guide to Chemistry, Anne Marie Helmenstine,…

The things you find when cleaning up photo files…! The Borg’s holding a watercolor brush I bought myself as a treat. It’s a Raphael Aqualine squirrel-hair brush, which has a…

The Portable Antiquities Scheme which logs thousands of archaeological finds in England and Wales has been given the green light for continued funding.

Museums, galleries and heritage news in brief from the 24 Hour Museum for the week ending November 23 2008.

The curator of Glasgow’s popular Police Museum is in negotiations with council chiefs after being told to vacate his current premises within three weeks.

Gracing the front cover of the 2009 Arkansas Artists Engagement Calendar is Bella Vistan Charles Harrington’s acrylic painting of McKissic Creek.

Stefan Karl and Andrew Keenan-Bolger in Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, playing at Boston’s Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre November 26 through December 28, 2008.

This rendering of a pair of canvasbacks by 18-year-old Ashley Matters of Lebanon won best in show in the 2008 Pennsylvania Junior Duck Stamp Program sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

“Perspective displaced the use of the organic quality of colours, which had previously, in and of themselves, produced the tactile effect of recession and advancement.”– Mark Rothko, “Objective Impressionism”, c.1940-1*

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Daler-Rowney is running an open art competition called Make Your Mark with categories for leisure painters, students, under 16s, and under 12s. Entry is free and is done online (submissions…