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.

Explore the process of creating realistic hair strands through detailed painting techniques. This art video showcases brush control, layering, and fine details used to add texture and depth to a ...

Learn inspiring marbled clay art techniques that create beautiful patterns and unique handmade creations. This relaxing craft process combines colors, textures, and creativity to produce eye-catching ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The identification of pigments on manuscripts, paintings, enamels, ceramics, icons, polychromes, and papyri is critical in finding solutions to problems of restoration, conservation, dating, and ...

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 ...

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 ...