Sarah Raphael (1960-2001) showed precocious talent for drawing and painting from an early age. Her sudden death when, in her...

On John Constable as a proto-abstractionist of pastoral landscape

One of Britain’s greatest landscape painters, John Constable was brought...

Across three centuries, and much of Europe - "Holmes writes beautifully... A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of...

Pocket Art features100 art activities to do on your daily art work-out. Bringing creativity into daily life, Lorna Scobie encourages...

Explore the colorful art of painting in pastel with this compelling how-to guide. Pastel Step by Step provides all the...

Make Creativity a Joyous Way of Life! While creativity may seem like a leisure-time luxury, it is actually the engine...

Why is it easy to hate and difficult to love? When societies fracture into warring tribes, we demonise those who...

Love music? Love illustration? Want to know more about some of the best musicians ever to record—from Bowie and the...

Learn to Draw Animated Cartoons includes everything from developing human and animal characters to making your cartoons move. All the...

Bottoms gives you a perspective on art that you may never have appreciated. Showing the fundamental aspects of well-known images,...

Capturing a likeness of another human being is one of the greatest and most enjoyable challenges for artists. In this...

Pastels are fun, versatile and easy to use. Strokes and squiggles of colour can be blended to create beautiful skies,...

Book three in a series celebrating the phenomenon of street art in the world's greatest cities. A photographer's view of...

The second book in a series celebrating the phenomenon of street art in the world's greatest cities. A photographer's view...

Simple Pleasures presents the first major critical assessment of works by the artist Doris Lee (1904-1983). Lee was one of...

Christy Rupp emerged as an American artist and activist in Manhattan in the late 1970s, using commodified materials to construct...