Try this oil spill clean up experiment with your students or kids! This is agreat one for Earth Day or anytime you want to teach about the environment!
The Formula for Success. Here are 9 lessons learned from successful artists along with a discussion on the imortance of painting consistancy.
You need to be careful when oiling your precious sewing machine because too much application could attract dust and lint, gumming up the machine and even rendering it dysfunctional. Get familiar with sewing machine oil ingredients, minerals, and lubricants with this post and keep your machine at its best level!
Our Q&A with Malaysian-Chinese photographer Zhong Lin, on the challenge of creating a new image everyday for one year
This next science experiment is great for kids of all ages!
Zhong Lin creates one magical photograph each day for a whole year in ‘Project 365’ For everyone around the world, the pandemic pushed us inside. Some got
Need a fun and hands-on Earth Day activity? Challenge your students to an oil spill clean-up! Read on for a STEM challenge that teaches environmental consciousness, problem solving, and team work along with extension math problems that use measurement, percentages, and volume calculations. Our stude
My girls love science , and they also love things that glow-in-the-dark!
With Earth Day right around the corner, this is the perfect time to teach your kids about the harmful effects of pollution. This oil spill experiment promises to open your kiddos eyes to the devastating effects of water pollution on our planet...
Adrian Deckbar was born and raised in New Orleans. She earned a BA in Painting and Drawing at the University of Louisiana (now ULL) in 1973. She then earned an MA in Painting and Drawing at San Francisco State University under the renowned photorealist artist Robert Bechtle. Later, at Tulane University, she received an MFA, also in Painting and Drawing. She has taught Painting and Drawing classes at Tulane University, The New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, and at San Francisco State University. She has also taught workshops including The Bascom in Highlands, NC, The Mississippi Art Colony, The Arkansas Craft School, and The Prince’s Foundation for Rebuilding the Environment in New Orleans, and Sketching in Provence, Umbria, and Northern Italy. Her work is in numerous private and corporate collections in the US and abroad. She has received grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Pollack Krasner Foundation, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Gottlieb Foundation. In 2008, Deckbar published a book of her work with a grant from Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation, entitled, Continuum: Moving Through A Still Frame. Deckbar is currently working on a new series of paintings titled Movie Stills. These new paintings depict women who are aware that they are objectified, yet mysterious, weary and yet defiant. Her incredible mastery of photo realism, combined with an awareness of the times we live in, and all the emotional weight that carries, finds her in a unique place in the art world.
My girls love science , and they also love things that glow-in-the-dark!
You might not need to choose between an oil-based or water-based cleanser. Learn which cleanser is best for your skin based on dermatologist insights!
Camden Man B, 2008 - Cian McLoughlin (b. 1977) chalk on paper | Camden Town and the Aisling Project
Since the ancient Greeks, realism has been aspired by Western art lovers, but during the late 1960s and '70s the popularity of highly-realistic drawings reached its peak. Thus, Photorealism and Hyperrealism were born. These perspective drawing genres are still popular, and some artists master their technique so successfully that it becomes hard to tell an oil painting or a pencil drawing from a photograph. Bored Panda collected some of the best examples of this cool art and made a stunning list for you to enjoy.
The products we use on our body should be just as safe and clean as the food we put into our bodies. One of the best ways to make sure of this is to make your own bath and body products, and this tutorial will show you how to make goat milk soap. It's easier than you might think!
Michael Reeder on the formation of self.
Despite the meticulous control and calculated perspectives, Canadian artist Adam Lupton’s oil paintings are constantly fidgeting. They mostly feature youth in various incarnations in a blur of motion represented as simultaneous frames, or with different layers of paint exposed. This jitteriness is revealed both through substance, by showing the layers of material creation, or through time, as the viewer pans multiple freeze-frames overlaid on top of each other. What stands still throughout all his work is an obsession with time and chaos, and the individual’s navigation of the two in the constant present.
After my girls initial disappointment in oil pastels, we tried added baby oil. The results were amazing!
Alina Maksimenko (b.1974), Birthday (2010), oil on canvas, 90 x 140 cm. Via alinamaksimenko.com.
