Artist Spotlight: Alma Thomas
13 days ago
Alma Thomas (1891-1978) was an American painter inspired by the natural world, who often used vi...
Embroidery Patterns
Say hello to your new favorite embroidery patterns!Not too cutesy or difficult, our signature pa...
Music to Create to
Just a friendly PSA that we're on Spotify and you should follow us to find the best of best music...
Eat, Sleep, Exercise, Make Art
In his weekly column “How to Build a Life” featured in The Atlantic Magazine, social scientist Ar...
Artist Spotlight: Jean Arp (also known as Hans Arp!)
Jean Arp (1886-1966) was born in Germany to a French mother and German father - and tends to be k...
How To: Collage
Collage is one of our favorite art forms, mainly because there is really no wrong way to create o...
Art as medicine? Yes please!
Doctors prescribing looking at art as a form of medicine? It sounds like exactly the kind of trea...
How To: Create TEXTURE with Oil Pastels
Hmmm texture....even the word excites us. Texture.....say it slowly and ponder on the magic of la...
How To: Draw with Oil Pastels
The best way to get the hang of oil pastels is to do small, quick studies that help you experimen...
Oil Pastels: What are they? How do you use them? Let's dig in!
We love oil pastels for lots of reasons - their versatility, user-friendliness, they play really ...
Theosophy and its Influence on Modernism
Many of the early modernist painters including Vassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Hilma af Klim...
Fun feels good, and it's good for us!
In a recent New York Times article, researcher and author Catherine Price presents her findings o...
A few of our favorite Color Field Painters
Color Field Painting is an art movement that emerged from Abstract Expressionism in the mid-20th ...
A few of our favorite figurative artists...
For centuries artists have been portraying and interpreting the human form in a multitude of ways...
A brief intro to the history of COLLAGE!
Collage describes both the technique and the resulting work of art in which pieces of paper, phot...
Blind Contour Drawing
Blind contour drawing means using your eyes to follow the contour of the subject with continuous,...
Warm Color Exploration
Recommended creative playtime: 10-20 minutes; 30+ minutes (you can spend as little or much time o...
Checkerboard Dreams Come True
Simply draw a series of gridded lines to make several squares (like a checkerboard), and fill th...
Cool Color Exploration
Cool Color Exploration
Recommended creative playtime: 10-20 minutes; 30+ minutes (you can spend a...
Shape Exploration
Recommended creative playtime: 10-20 minutes; 30+ minutes (you can spend as little or much time o...
Line Exploration
Understanding the elements of art – line, shape, color, form and texture is essential as you begi...
Artist Spotlight: Betty Woodman
The first word that comes to mind when I see a Betty Woodman work is EXUBERANCE. While primaril...
Entry #1 in Podcasts We Love
As you know, a big part of A/ L. P- is learning about iconic artists who have shaped art movemen...
The Secret to Happiness? Being in a state of FLOW
Psychologist Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi argues in his 2004 TED Talk (viewed by almost six millio...
Everyone can Benefit from Art Therapy
One could safely argue that we are living in truly unprecedented times. While our collective anxi...
MIT Scientists Make the Case for Lifelong Kindergarten
The Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab spreads the spirit of kindergarten to learn...
Artist Spotlight: Georgia O'Keeffe
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I ha...
Artist Spotlight: Frank Bowling
We recently revisited the work of Guyana-born British artist Frank Bowling, and haven’t been able...
Morning Musings #8 October 2021
Good Morning, Musing Readers! I hope that you have enjoyed the many gifts that the season of fal...
Morning Musings #7 || September 2021
Good Morning Friends! It's back-to-school szn and the smell of freshly sharpened pencils is in t...
Morning Musings #6 / July 2021
Artists of the Month
Mickalene Thomas
How much do I love Mickalene Thomas? Let me count the wa...
Morning Musings #5 / June 2021
Greetings A-L-P Friends! Summertime is upon us and there are a lot of exciting developments in t...
Morning Musings #4 // May 2021
Greetings A-L-P Friends! Summertime is upon us and there are a lot of exciting developments in t...
Morning Musings #3 // April 2021
Happy Spring A-L-P Friends! It's the third installment of Morning Musings with Berry, and I've g...