It used to be called the Wal-Mart effect, where large-scale merchandising techniques and international manufacturing made consumer goods so much…
Not all art materials come from large manufacturers. The Coate family in Somerset, England makes willow baskets and artist willow…
Recently, some folks have been marketing raw pigments for making "non-toxic" paints at home. This is the oldest mistake in…
Most Americans are used to visiting museums and galleries where there is one work of art hung in each horizontal…
According to the University of Minnesota a bio-based revolution is underway, and it is fundamentally changing how the world produces…
In 1924, Nicholas Roerich set out on a five-year expedition loaded with all his painting supplies, travelling to Tibet, Sikkim,…
Globally, many people are working to replace petrochemicals with biobased alternatives. The art materials introduced in the coming years will…
Around 1122 A.D., an author known as Theophilus wrote a manuscript called On Divers Arts, where he described the technique…
The art from at least nineteen archaeological sites including four Buddhist monasteries, several Buddhist reliquary towers known as stupas, and…
There is an old song from the 1940s titled When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again, sung by Merle…