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#acrylicpouring #acrylicpainting #stringpull Creative painting technique: String pulled birch tree acrylic pour painting! Another piece that I made inspired by other artists! I've seen a few ...
Miyoko Ito survived an earthquake, incarceration and illness. Her transportive paintings defied ideas about abstract art.
Two paintings stolen from the Healing Center on St. Claude Avenue have been returned. Artist Carrie Beene said she’s ‘relieved and happy the drama is over’ ...
Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently.
John Tillman owns Tillman Christmas Trees and has acres of Noble, Nordmann, Fraser, Korean and Douglas fir trees covering his farms in Western Washington. “We’ve had two heat episodes in the ...
People around the world instantly recognize a decorated fir tree as a symbol of Christmas. But, as it turns out, historical evidence to explain when, and where, people started using trees to ...
Climate change is putting monarch butterflies’ overwintering forests in Mexico at risk. Could planting new forests solve that problem?
Alan Cumming has been painting with his longtime chimp bestie. The Emmy-winning “The Traitors” host has collaborated on an abstract painting with Tonka, a primate who stars of HBO’s “Chimp ...
Evergreen trees and shrubs often (but not always) have needles and produce cones. These needled cone-bearing trees are called conifers. Example of conifer trees include pine, fir, spruce and cedar.
A nonnative tree-killing insect is invading northern Utah, attacking subalpine fir and potentially triggering yet another die-off of the region's long-stressed conifer forests.