You might be familiar with painting by numbers, the books and kits invented and developed in the 1950s to help even novice painters create decent works of art by indicating exactly what colors to use, ...

Vort Man and Chris Cank of the group VORCAN are on stage while a band plays, but they're wielding brushes, not instruments, and their painting follows the music. "The music is really the inspiration," ...

After years of doing representational paintings, Craig Marshall Smith suddenly changed course ten years ago and started creating abstracts. “I took an inventory of what I’d done,” he says, “and I ...

His idea for "Portraits" -- artists onstage painting on canvas their impressions of the music being played -- came from these experiences with his father. Dorothy English, development coordinator of ...

Arts and music have long been slashed from many school budgets, but all California schools are about to see new, ongoing investment in the arts — equal to about $1 billion this year. Listen to the ...

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...