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 ...

Explore the detailed process behind a painting as brushwork, texture, and color come together to create the final artwork. This video highlights the artist’s technique and the small details that bring ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Sixteenth-century Venetian painters have been regarded as “colorists” since their own time. The phrase “Venetian palette” is used today by art historians to describe the colors used by Renaissance ...