Bougainvillea, by Lucy EddyGarlands of royal Purple:Proud, regal notes of pageantrySounding imperial color:A fanfare of trumpetsTriumphant, barbaric:Bells and chimes and cymbalsClanging crimson.If you'd like to view the paintings we talk about

Ear Rings

May 21st, 2021 22m 6s

Our last portrait challenged us to put extra effort into the ears, a part of the face we usually tend to neglect.During the process, we came across a close-up of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, which reveals the minimal paint Vermeer emplo

Anti-portrait

May 14th, 2021 27m 22s

Contemporary artist Virginia Nimarkoh painted Untitled #1 (After Gerhard Richter, Betty, 1988) in 2001. Her painting replicates the famous photorealist portrait by Gerhard Richter, replacing a young African-American woman for Richter's daughter

Paint Tubes

May 7th, 2021 32m 8s

It's hard to visualize the quintessential image of a modern painter as a solo (and sometimes lonely) figure translating nature through their brush without the existence of tubes of paint. Artists have been painting their own art supplies on sti

Portrait of a Tree

Apr 30th, 2021 32m 9s

Arbor Day—which literally translates to “tree” day from the Latin origin of the word arbor—is a holiday that celebrates the planting, upkeep and preservation of trees. For centuries, communities spanning the globe have found various ways to hon

Liquid Gold

Apr 9th, 2021 35m 58s

During the last 16 years, artist Serge Attukwei Clottey has been collecting discarded yellow containers made out of plastic that were once used by people who had no running water. Women were tasked to walk miles to fill up the containers with p

Posing Painters Paintings

Apr 2nd, 2021 37m 34s

The ‘Mods’ of late 1950s London loved Italian suits, tidy haircuts, espresso bars, Vespa scooters, and the latest American jazz.The artists of this counterculture also loved to pose in front of their work. Inserting themselves in their creation

Still Life with Flowers

Mar 26th, 2021 39m 39s

Spring. Flowers.Still life. Flowers.Mass shootings. Flowers.Last week we celebrated Spring. This week we're mourning the victims of the heinous crimes in Atlanta and Boulder.Makeshift memorials always pop up wherever people's lives are senseles

Swallows

Mar 19th, 2021 36m 17s

As if by magic, every March 19, hundreds of swallows have been descending to San Juan de Capistrano Mission after traveling all the way from Argentina to nest and spend their summer there. Or at least they used to. Because of urbanization and r

Portraito

Mar 12th, 2021 47m 51s

We're thrilled to learn that the makers of the classic Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head toys will be dropping the binary prefixes and add a few more pieces in each box, so new generations of kids will be able to create more identities beyond the binary