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Take a glimpse into the diverse and exciting lives of insects! Discover what is and is not an insect, the significant role they have in nature, their life cycles and much more....

White paper and graphite. Those are the basics to any sketcher's supply caddy. We have been trained to turn that white paper into something visual by adding outlines (internal a...

Challenge yourself to see things in a new way! Take one piece of fruit to study and lightly sketch it so that it fills your page. Take a piece of charcoal and fill in the fruit ...

When we think of landscapes, we often think of the sky as a background element. I encourage you to try looking at the sky as your primary subject, because it can be an amazing f...

While winter can be a very dormant season, we can take advantage of hidden life that waits to emerge in spring. When looking at trees, for instance, we see bare and creaky branc...

Anyone can paint a landscape. Draw in a horizon line, put in a few trees, happy clouds...maybe a little stream or a not so little mountain... We know these natural elements well...

Every art instructor I have had told me to "draw what you see." It's true that our mind works ahead of us, giving us visual information that sometimes we need to override. We kn...