Hilma af Klint was a Swedish artist who is known for her pioneering role in the development of abstract art. Born in 1862, af Klint was the daughter of a naval captain and grew up in a household that valued scientific thinking and spiritual exploration. Despite being trained as a painter in the classical tradition, […]
Caravaggio, born Michelangelo Merisi, was a revolutionary artist who made a significant impact on the art world during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. His unique style, characterized by the use of extreme contrasts of light and dark, has had a lasting influence on the development of painting techniques and aesthetics. One of the
As a space and astronomy nerd, I have been excitedly following the NASA Mars Perseverance Rover Mission, which has just succeeded now in late February in landing a new exploration vehicle on the surface of the Red Planet. Yesterday, I learned that NASA hid a secret massage in the colored panels of the parachute that
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Like many people living in the Northern Hemisphere, the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in late December 2020 was hidden behind a mass of boring cloud. The only view of the event I got to see was a secondhand blurry image made available on Wikipedia by user KSPFanatic102 under a Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0
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Get into the habit of naming colors with two words. For example if you are using “gray” as a tag, or in a title, description, filename, collection name, wherever, call it “silver gray” instead. The you are not only going to get hits on the word “gray” but also on the word “silver ” and
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I wanted to find out how to use Pinterest to create a “shopfront” for some of the products in my Redbubble store Tiokvadrat. This is how I went about doing that. I will be applying many of the lessons I learned in my previous post, “Effective Pinterest Pins and Boards“, where I took an in
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This acrylic work was produced late in 2012 just as the Swedish winter started to bite. We were already looking forward to the Spring and its early crocuses, but that was still many months away. Like many winter paintings my palette turns dark as the evenings closes in. In spring my palette lightens considerably and
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Pinterest is a great way to promote your website whether it is a business or a hobby but you have to make sure you are using it to full advantage. In this post I’ll take a close look at how to optimize Pinterest and pass on some tips to help you make it work for
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This is a fun recipe for artists. It instructs you how paint an abstract in blue and orange. Use this recipe when you find inspiration lacking and “just want someone to tell you what to do”.
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