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 […]
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39th Annual Art Competition: Meet the Landscape/Interior Winners
Share: We are pleased to have below the winners for the 39th Annual Art Competition in the Landscape/Interior Category. For the full list of winners overall and in all other categories, please see the links at the end of the post. First Place: Jacqueline Buck Donadeo Spring Snow by Jacqueline […]
How to Create Prints of Your Artwork
As a painter, sometimes the market for your work can be limited. That’s particularly true if you work on a large scale or attach a high price to your art. One way to expand your market is to create prints of your artwork. In fact, art reproductions are the fastest-growing […]
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 […]
Bartek Swiatecki / Pener: Selected Works 15-21
A new book here features six years of selected works from a Polish graffiti writer, muralist, and professor of art and painting at a secondary school in his hometown of Olsztyn, Poland. He reckons that his life is one of ‘Planned Freestyle,’ meaning that having structure imposed upon him is […]
Interview with Rachel Mercer: Contorted Figuration
Rachel Mercer has recently joined Rise Art. Rachel paints to capture the movement and actions of people in their dealings with space and each other, examining physical and emotional connections through dynamic portraits and contorted compositions. Rachel drawing outdoor near a playground. How would you describe your style and the work […]
Recycled Paper | Pre vs. Post Consumer Fibers
We recently shared a behind-the-scenes video of paper being trimmed on our guillotine machine, which raised many great questions about paper-making and processes, including: what happens to the scraps that are trimmed off? While we have many quillers and weavers itching to get their hands on those perfectly trimmed pieces, […]
The Final Four — Portland Museum of Art
The four design teams vying for the commission to double the size of the Portland Museum of Art (PMA), in Portland, Maine, have unveiled their visions as part of a public comment period. Shortlisted design teams led by Adjaye Associates; LEVER Architecture; MVRDV; and Toshiko Mori Architect + Johnston Marklee […]
Ep 120 The AHA Moments we Experience as Artists
In today’s art podcast we are talking about the AHA moments we experience as artists and there is no more useful AHA moment than the good old ‘happy accident!’ And it’s often the happy accidents that help us progress, because it almost always means that we’ve learned something… It’s just […]
All About Cunnawa-bum by Paul Kane
Title of Artwork: “Cunnawa-bum” Artwork by Paul Kane Year Created 1856 Summary of Cunnawa-bum This painting by Kane, titled Cunnawa-bum, is the first in a series of one hundred he completed depicting Native Americans of North America. The young Metis woman of Plains Cree and British origin shown in the […]