Painters' Blog
The 20 Most Expensive Paintings In the World
20. Untitled – Jean-Michel Basquiat – $110.5 Million
In twentieth place, we have “Untitled”, by NYC graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
The sale made “Untitled” the highest...
6 Interesting Facts About Leonardo Da Vinci
Known as one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci remains as one of the most popular historical figures of today. Beyond his famous persona as both an artist and a scient...
How the jigsaw puzzle was invented
The jigsaw puzzle—that delightful and perplexing challenge wherein a picture made of cardboard or wood has been cut into differently shaped pieces that must be fit together. But it didn’t start ...
Do you know these 13 secrets about Sistine Chapel?
The Sistine Chapel is one of the world's top artistic tourist destinations, but though it receives millions of visitors a year, there are many secrets most people don't know.
As it happens with ...
Watercolor and Acrylic, do you know the difference?
The joy of painting is to explore different mediums or to choose one that you can fall in love with. But to do that you need to know what each offers and what some of the limitations are.
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Art Feeding World Lives: We donate 1 kg of Food for Every Paint by Numbers sold during May!
The new coronavirus is a universal threat, but not a universal equalizer. According to NY Post, Brazil emerges as next potential coronavirus hotspot. (https://nypost.com/2020/04/27/brazil-is-next...
Who was Pablo Picasso?
Pablo Picasso was the most dominant and influential artist of the first half of the 20th century. Associated most of all with pioneering Cubism, alongside Georges Braque, he also invented collage...
Da Vinci or Michelangelo, who inspired the creation of Painting by Numbers?
Dan Robbins created the first pictures and helped popularize paint-by-numbers kits in the 1950s.
The idea for paint-by-numbers started when Robbins' boss asked him to come up with an item that ...
William Morris the father of the successful painting "Tree of Life"
William Morris was born in 1834 in Walthamstow, Essex, the third of nine children. William's father, after whom he was named, was a self-made business man, who was able to provide an upper-middle...