Hallwalls: A Mid Winter's Draw

What It Takes for Female Artists to Overcome Mid-Career Stagnation

Any artist’s mid-career period can be fraught, but it is especially challenging for female artists, who face deeply ingrained stereotypes and biases.

How to Draw in Six Steps

Tips for Holding a Coat Drive

The past few winters have broken records for cold temperatures, snow, ice, and wind-chill. With the cold weather, we pull out warm sweaters, gloves, hats, scarves, and coats. Since children grow every year, they need new warm clothes every year. For some families, the expense of providing these necessary protective barriers is impossible. It is up to us to help the children in our community. The four steps in our guide will teach you how to start a coat drive the right way…

Why I Don’t Draw Animals

I’m afraid I draw them wrong, their feelings will be hurt whose photograph is in this book would somehow know if I draw his nose...

Can You Guess What I Was Trying To Draw?

“I don’t know how to draw”

Top Investing Tips for Small to Mid-Sized Nonprofits

With all of the products that are now accessible to nonprofits, any organization can begin to emulate investment strategies of the largest institutions.

14 Comic Artists Draw What Loneliness Means To Them

"I feel the loneliest around other people — even my own friends. "

10 Reasons Why Artists Should Draw More

Most little children love to draw. You can see this 'phenomenon' for yourself. Go into any family restaurant and notice how a box of crayons, and a piece of paper will keep restless children happy.<br>So later,

Why Did Leonardo Draw These Weird Faces?

Some scholars see doodles, and others an artist trying to understand the range of human emotion. The faces are the focus of a new exhibit in the Netherlands.

Can't Draw Worth Shit? Try These Exercises

Drawing is hard. Even after a lesson with a New Yorker cartoonist, I get spooked by the simplest drawing exercises. If you’re also easily scared off, but you want to get better, try these basic drawing exercises at Envato. They address issues like “I can’t draw a circle” or “my proportions are all off.”

The Brilliant Firework Sculptures of an Artist Who Draws With Gunpowder

There’s a video floating around the internet this week that shows an impossibly tall ladder of explosions climbing impossibly high into the sky. It’s not photoshop or a hoax—it’s the work of one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary artists working today.

MIT's Clever New Drone Draws What You Do. Mostly

The Flying Phantograph is an exploration in how machines and humans can make art together

7 places online to help you learn how to draw

Fancy starting to paint or draw? Five artists on how to begin

Taking up art can bring levels of relaxation that border on therapeutic, so why not?

Learn how to paint and draw without leaving your house

There are many well-known benefits to having a creative outlet: better mood, less stress, and increased focus. In such tumultuous time, where many are left unsure about the future, a boost of posit…

Mystery artist ‘*anksy’ draws penises around potholes to get them fixed

This is one way of getting the council to deal with potholes.

Can You Help A Child or Adult With Disabilities in the Mid-Hudson Valley?

Making a donation to a local nonprofit will help make YOUR community a better and more prosperous place to work, live, play and enjoy<br>Your donation will help a person with disabilities receive services that will help them overcome a physical disability, receive appropriate education, develop vocational skills, receive proper care and housing, and reach their full potential so they may be functional and contributing members…

Europe’s Grandest Art Fair Draws the Faithful. But Can It Expand Its Appeal?

Times have changed and old master paintings and the decorative arts no longer have the same draw for collectors.

Can you tell your art deco from your mid century modern?

Fine and decorative arts courses on topics ranging from the history of painting to domestic architecture