Shop the Museum Store to check off all your holiday gift lists! These are just a sampling of all the wonderful ideas we have for the holidays. This year you will find lots of Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are items in addition to our usual selection of creative […]
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Review: Fabriano Black Black Drawing Paper (300gsm)
Nope, there’s no typo. This paper is called the Fabriano Black Black. According to Fabriano: Fabriano Black Black is a range of uncoated cardboards made of ECF cellulose pulp. This paper is characterized by a very deep black colour due to the high quality and lightfast pigments used for its […]
Juxtapoz Magazine – Peter Opheim and Adam Handler are Warriors and Ghosts
GR Gallery is pleased to present Warriors and Ghosts, a primary duo exhibition of Peter Opheim and Adam Handler. The show will feature a total of 21 works, individually created by the two artists appositely for this occasion, that will challenge the exhibition title by unleashing a variety of ghostly paintings […]
An Overview of the Excavations of Pétermonostora near Bugac
Detail of one of the reliquary plaques It is well-known that the majority of the medieval monuments of the Hungarian Great Plains had been destroyed, primarily during the Ottoman Period. However, the territory had already suffered a major trauma before that: the Mongol invasion of 1241. Already at that time, […]
How to prepare for the Urban Sketchers Symposium
So you’ve decided that you want to go to the Urban Sketchers Symposium this year. What should you prepare? Let’s see… First thing to do. Get the passes The Urban Sketchers Symposium is a popular event. Workshop Passes can be sold out very fast. I’ve heard and read many stories […]
Ep 117 Why Artists Need to be Brave
On today’s podcast, we talk about why artists need to be brave. So, the most successful artists out there are often the ones who have been brave and not been afraid to try new things …and they’ve just put themselves out there no matter what the outcome or reaction might […]
Using Different Pencil Strokes – Ken Bromley Art Supplies
This is my third article in a series of blog posts about using colour pencil. In my previous articles I covered the differences in Derwent’s pencil ranges and how to find your pressure. It is now time to move on to some of the other things that can influence how […]
Bex Glendining | Communication Arts
In the work of Ramsgate, United Kingdom–based illustrator Bex Glendining, dramatic shadows and theatrical compositions draw the eye around what almost feels like an illustrated still from a movie with realistic environments and figures posed naturally. “I’ve always been drawn to [creating] quiet moments, imagining a real lived-in place or space […]
A Sculptor Talks Shop | Janina Myronova | Episode 890
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Janina Myronova | Episode 890 Janina Myronova is a ceramic artist born in Ukraine and living in Poland. In 2012 Janina received her MFA from the Department of Ceramic Art at Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts (Lviv, Ukraine), an MFA from the […]
South Korea’s Oscar submission Decision to Leave — Portland Museum of Art
Decision to Leave A winner of Best Director at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and South Korea’s submission for this year’s Best International Film category at the Academy Awards, Decision to Leave is a deliriously inventive thriller made in thrall to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Directed Park Chan-wook, best known for […]