July is World Watercolor Month
I do not think I need to go into my sob story about how inept I am with watercolors. You know how bad I was? One of my instructors in grad school suggested I stick with oils because I was trying too h ...
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Artist Birthday: Moshe Safdie (born 1938, Israel-Canada)
Moshe Safdie is an extraordinarily innovative architect who is probably most widely known for his Habitat 67 that he designed for the World’s Fair in Montreal, Canada in 1967, which revolutioniz ...
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Bringing Women's History Month to a Close
There are many of what I consider “art heroes” among artists, and if anyone deserves such a title, it would be the late Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015, US, born Canada). She was a key player i ...
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This Day in Art History: Earliest photographic process introduced
On 9 January, 1839, Louis Daguerre (1787-1851 France) introduced his groundbreaking daguerreotype photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences. In early 1838 he had used the process to photo ...
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Early American Watercolorist: Mary Ann Willson
Among the earliest artists who worked predominantly in watercolor in America were several women who rose to prominence. Mary Ann Willson was one of these. Imagine being an artist and basically a pione ...
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