A Second Life user visiting the Jules Verne Museum in Nantes, France saw my painting of the "lepidopter" flying machine and asked if he could create it for Second Life. It...
Before the big thunderstorm arrived last Tuesday night, I sat outside and sketched some strange cloud formations. Theyre called mammatus clouds, named so because their pendulous forms resemble an ani...
An iceberg gets top-heavy and gracefully turns over. The berg calved from Argentinas Uppsala glacier. --- via Best of YouTube
What is the color of each words below? Say the name of each color aloud as you look at each word: Green Red &nbs p;Blue Purple Blue&n bsp; Purple Now do the same t...
The museum exhibition "At the Edge: Art of the Fantastic" opens tomorrow at the Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The paintings and sculpture encompass the worlds of mythology,...
When we look out of a window, our eyes instantly adjust from the darkness of the room to the bright view outside. So if we want to simulate the scene as we subjectively perceive it, its perfectly nat...
I’d like to introduce the two piglets that live on the farm near us. We call them Pinky and Stinky. Pinky is the light colored one, and Stinky is all black. They live in a stall downstai...
The next issue of ImagineFX magazin e (Issue 84) is all about fairy tales. It includes a special feature on Arthur Rackham, with appreciations by Charles Vess, Tom Bagshaw, Brian Froud, and ...
Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki (1726 – 1801) was a Polish-German artist who became the head of the Berlin Academy of Art. He drew devotedly from life. In his autobiography, he said that he would sketch o...
Most of the observers in war are writers, photographers, or videographers, but there have been a few artists on the front lines of combat in recent years, and one of them is Steve Mumford. He says he...
The science podcast Radiolab has released a new program on the subject of color vision. It starts by examining the basic question of whether color exists as a physical fact in the world outside us, o...
Archaeologists at the Easter Island Statue Project are digging down below the famous heads and shoulders of the moai. It turns out that the bodies extend far down below. More photos at: Eas...
Here are two examples of animal cartoons. The first is by T. S. Sullivant (1854-1926). Mrs. Hippo says, "Hurry, Hippy, were late now." He replies, "I just have to take a quick shave, darl...
Kentucky Fried Chicken has opened more than 3,000 branches in China, and now the restaurant chain is more profitable in China than in the USA. One theory for KFCs boffo success: Colonel Sanders resem...
The new issue of ImagineFX magazine should still be on the newsstands in the USA. It contains my workshop on painting realistic dinosaurs. The article follows the case history of two paintings ...
SIGGRAPH is the annual convention where professionals in the field of computer graphics unveil new technologies, which are often the result of the collaboration of artists, physicists, and programmer...
The new issue of International Artist magazine includes my latest masterclass on serial painting. I use the term "serial painting" to refer to plein-air painting where several imag...
(Video Link) The rapidly changing faces in this video stimulate your brain to morph them into aliens. As you play the video, defocus your brain and stare only at the "+" in the middle. The im...
Andrew Wyeths father, N.C. Wyeth died in an accident just as young Andy was establishing himself as an artist. As Andrew (1917-2009) recalls in this rare interview, filmed at the time of his 80th bir...
I just completed this little video about the long journey to attend Spectrum Fantastic Art Live, which ended yesterday. (Video Link) The whole experience seems like a dream now that Im sitt...
Josep Maria Sert (1874-1945) was a Catalan muralist whose epic works grace the walls of the League of Nations in Geneva and the Waldorf Astoria and Rockefeller Center in New York. Many of his co...
After breakfast yesterday, Jeanette and I explored downtown Kansas City, which is full of architectural gems, like the Mainstreet Theater. There was a red crane lifting a worker way up to the t...
You may have heard of Smokey the Bear, but this is Smokey the Rabbit. I was able to buy new sketching supplies here in Kansas City, so Ill be doing my first demo here at Spectrum Live today at 4:00. ...
Our expedition across Ohio continued yesterday along small farm roads. We watched white-bearded farmers bringing in the hay with draft horses, then we stopped at a rural bakery for a loaf of bread. W...
We have begun our westward journey toward the center of the American continent. Our conveyance is a steam driven horseless carriage, a Gurney, of course. Strange mooring posts for dirigibles. T...
If you live anywhere near the middle of the USA, please come on out to Kansas City, Missouri this weekend, May 18-20 for Spectrum Fantastic Art Live, a huge festival of fantasy and science fiction ar...
I have a question for the Group Mind. Does anyone know what became of this painting? What I know so far is that it was painted by the French orientalist Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ and w...
The farmer Lenny stopped his mower to tell us that theres something new in the incubator: brand new Polish chicks. I have seen full grown Polish chickens before at the county fair. Theyve got the big...
(Video link) Thomas Kegler’s new hour-long video is called Painting En Plein Air: Resolving the Landscape. It follows a two day painting session on location at the edge of a hardwood forest. The...
(Video link) This deep-sea squid was videotaped by one of Shell Oils deep sea robotic rovers in the Perdido Area of Alaminos Canyon, at 7800 ft. depth. (Video link) Then theres the "vampire squid...
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