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Tips for Shading With Colored Pencils

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One look at my bedspread would be enough to tell you that I love colors - all of the colors, at the same time. In fact, my whole room is pretty colorful. Throughout college I took notes with different colored gel pens, and at work I post my…
Taysir Batniji

Taysir Batniji’s Stunning Pencil Shaving Installation

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Taysir Batniji is truly a jack of all trades in the art world. Born in Gaza in 1966, Batniji has studied and created art all over the world. He attended Al-Najah University in Palestine, the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Bourges Université…

Sunspot Drawings from Mt. Wilson Are Keeping an Age-Old Art Alive

Sunspot Drawings: An 885 Year Tradition Steve Padilla is a solar technician. He is a scientist and an astronomer. He is also an artist. Every day, Padilla ascends 150 feet to the top of a solar telescope on Mt. Wilson in Los Angeles, California,…

Andrew Marr, the Importance of Drawing as Therapy

[Photo Credit-Andrew Marr via The Daily Mail] Andrew Marr, the BBC Broadcaster, recently shared his struggle to recover from a near fatal stroke and how art helped move him beyond this difficult experience. The Daily Mail's thorough article…

“Diebenkorn, the Berkeley Years” Makes Appearance at DeYoung Museum

http://youtu.be/PV1ZHh9wl7w Richard Diebenkorn on Beginning a painting [Video] Richard Diebenkorn's exhibit made an appearance at San Francisco's DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate park, in September. The exhibit of Diebenkorn's artwork from…
Bad Toon Rising

Bad Toon Rising: Creating Cartoon Characters from Memory

Have you ever been in the situation where you start doodling a popular character for fun, but with no point of reference you realize you aren’t quite sure what the character looks like? Does Mickey Mouse wear suspenders? Does Porky Pigs have…
Artwork Inspired by 9/11

The Art Inspired by September 11th, 2001

Creativity is often born out of the ashes of tragedy. Modernism took its form in the wake of World War I, the Beat Generation in the shadow of the Bomb, so it comes as no surprise that the tragedies of the past 15 years have inspired art as…
Pencil Artist Lynn Spoor

Pencil Artist of the Week: Lynn Spoor

This week’s featured pencil artist is Lynn Spoor, a painter and pencil artist from the Netherlands who creates pencil portraits that are so realistic, you’d swear they were photographs. Lynn was an artist at an early age, drawing and…
Tiny Pencil

Tiny Pencil: A Zine Dedicated to All Things Graphite

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For all of the lead lovers here at Studio 602, there’s a new biannual zine on the rise that specializes in art created exclusively using pencils.  The zine is called Tiny Pencil, and it’s put together lovingly by graphite enthusiasts Amber…
Palomino Drawing Pencils

Connect the Dots: Exploring the Link Between Drawing & Communication

Drawing & Communication Art as a form of communication and self-expression is nothing new, but it takes on a whole new level of importance when we consider the way that children use drawing. As a child, Garrett was diagnosed with autism.…