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06/09/2019

We all have stories and it is through these stories that we pass on our memories, ideas, thoughts and actions to others. Sketchbooks can be a very powerful medium to share these stories with the rest of the world.”

06/09/2019

Prasonisi Beach needs to be on your radar if you're a fan of watersports, with plenty of kite surfing and surfing on offer thanks to the choppier waters to be found here.

06/09/2019

Welcome to this world 🐶

06/09/2019

Scientists from the University of California, Irvine calculated the Milky Way’s black hole population as part of a new census. The team estimated the number of black holes that have masses tens of times that of the sun. These are called stellar-mass black holes. They form when massive stars collapse. The census estimates the numbers of these black holes in galaxies big and small. The results will be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

But there’s no reason to fear. “It may sound like a big number, but by astronomical standards, it’s a pretty small number,” says Daniel Holz. He is a physicist at the University of Chicago in Illinois. For comparison, our galaxy has a thousand times more stars.

29/06/2019

The majority of a squirrel's diet consists of hard mast like acorns, hickory nuts, walnuts, or seeds. In fact, from September through March.

29/06/2019

This almost subconscious way of arriving at visual narrative is a process that, for Cutler, goes way back. “In childhood, I thought drawing was a bit like voodoo—I could work out my struggles and take control of certain situations,” she says. “It was also therapeutic, helping me get through my parents’ divorce.

No question about it, Amy Cutler is an artistic mixologist. The inspirations for her drawings and gouache-on-paper works encompass anxieties about global warming, Persian dynastic stories, a favored pair of shoes, and deceased family members. An idea can come from just about anywhere, arising most o...

29/06/2019

My go-to drawing pencil is a Staedtler Mars HB. It doesn’t smear much when I paint over it. When it starts getting short I use a pencil extender and a little handheld pencil sharpener to get the most out of each one.

Artists love art supplies! Illustrator and author Cleo Papanikolas shares the 10 supplies from the art store (and other places!) that she can’t live without!

28/06/2019

Nothing more perfect than puppy kisses from one adorable Welsh Springer Spaniel to another.

18/06/2019

The average dog can run about 19 miles per hour at full speed.

06/05/2019

Waterspouts have a five-part life cycle: formation of a dark spot on the water surface, spiral pattern on the water surface, formation of a spray ring, development of the visible condensation funnel, and ultimately decay.

A waterspout near Florida. The two flares with smoke trails near the bottom of the photograph are for indicating wind direction and general speed. A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex (usually appearing as a funnel-shaped cloud) that occurs over a body of water.[1] Some are connected to a cumu...

06/05/2019

Many conditions give rise to snow. How and where they develop can make the difference between whether they drop a quiet dusting or the proverbial Snowmageddon.

Most people love a good snowstorm. After all, what’s better than a day off from school or work to sip warm cocoa as you wait for a chance to later explore the imminent winter wonderland? But just as no two snowflakes are alike, neither are any two snowstorms.

06/05/2019

Our galaxy the Milky Way may have some 100 million such black holes. Astronomers estimate a new one forms every second.

A black hole isn’t truly a hole. It’s quite the opposite. A black hole is a place in space containing an enormous amount of mass packed very tightly together. And it has the capacity to draw in more mass all the time. These objects have so much mass — and therefore gravity — that nothing can...

04/05/2019

Painting landscapes lets you create work that can take the viewer on a journey into a new environment. To create a truly expressive work of art, it helps to take more than a cursory look around and quickly set up shop.

Almost any artist will tell you that there’s a certain appeal to working outdoors that can’t be found anywhere else. With spring in full swing, many of us will leave our studios for our porches, backyards and beyond and spring into springtime art, such as landscapes

04/05/2019

Our eyes gloss right over that every time we read though now that it’s been mentioned, I dare you not to notice during your next study session!

The most common “mess” comes from mediums that bleed through the paper. Let’s first look at the difference between “bleeding” and “ghosting,” Ghosting is a normal trait of thin paper that we regularly ignore; it’s the greyed-out image of the ink that shows through any page of the Bib...

04/05/2019

In order to understand, deftly critique, and practice your chosen artform, you need to know the key concepts that it is built upon.

What if you had the keys to the artistic kingdom? With each of these essential for making art, that is exactly what you have. Understanding and applying the building blocks of art (or the elements and principles of art as they are often called) is what takes an artist from beginner to master.

04/05/2019

But if we break free from these restrictions, we avoid boring ourselves and the viewer. Just because a sheet of watercolor paper comes in a particular size doesn’t mean it’s the best format for a painting’s composition.

As artists, it’s our desire to use brush and paint to create, and then share, our interpretations of what we see and feel, and to translate and present these interpretations effectively on a two-dimensional surface. The placement of shapes, forms and colors onto a painting surface requires careful...

04/05/2019

I start with a pencil drawing on paper and make all my corrections and adjustments on it until I have the composition exactly how I want it.

Discover the beauty and possibilities of batik art. Artist Donna J. Dubsky takes us through the watercolor batik process from beginning to end and shares her insights and tips for artists who want to experiment with making beautiful watercolor paintings on rice paper. Enjoy!