Struggling to find a unique voice in your artwork? This tutorial moves beyond vague advice and provides 11 actionable, step-by-step tips to help you build an art style that feels truly your own. Learn ...

Nail art is my life. And before I mastered some of the more complicated looks, I leaned hard on a few easy nail art techniques that looked much more complicated to pull off than they actually were.

Black-and-white illustrations in old medical textbooks have a very distinct style. The smooth shading effects show as much of the texture of a tissue as you need to see to be able to understand the ...

I explore the details and techniques that make this graphite pencil illustration stand out, from shading and texture to precision and realism. This art breakdown reveals how traditional drawing skills ...

African clay pot painting is a beautiful tradition that has been passed down through generations. The art form is not just ...

Forensic art experts just got a little more competition. Scientists at UCLA and the National Gallery of Art have developed a new technique for analyzing ancient paintings that promises to reveal not ...

Most people are familiar with terms such as oil painting, acrylic or watercolour. Many people are also highly knowledgeable about artistic movements within painting, such as Impressionism, Cubism or ...

Zhu Wei, “Ink and Wash Research Lecture Series (unfinished)” (2015), ink and color pigment on paper (click to enlarge) Gao Qian’s painting “Hua Jian Ji No. 2” (2014) is superbly executed in ink and ...

Spectral imaging for conservators offers the promise of providing a non-destructive tool for the identification of artists’ materials in situ, as well as determining their spatial distribution in an ...