Paint-by-number kits are a great way to get started in painting. Their preplanned paintings free new artists from worries about what to paint so they can learn how to paint. Most kits come with ...

Who knew that your favorite elementary school pastime had such noble origins? In the 16th century, the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo was so busy that he began assigning sections of his famous ...

This isn’t your ordinary paint party. Sure, you could paint a sailboat on the water like your friend sitting next to you, but Indianapolis artist Kevin West wants the experience to be more personal ...

Artificial intelligence can now create a painting in seconds. With a few words typed into a prompt, algorithms generat ...

It was mid-March 2020, the state of Oregon had just gone into pandemic lockdown mode, and Rachel Austen was afraid that the unfolding crisis would force her to let go of the only employee at her ...

Critics were aghast, but hobbyists couldn't get enough of it: In the mid-1950s, paint-by-numbers kits were all the rage. Dan Robbins, the artist who helped invent those kits, died at a hospice on ...

As the daughter and granddaughter of two artists who are very persnickety about what constitutes as "real art," I'm reluctant to reveal my love of paint-by-number kits. Specifically, watching the ...

I just figured out something. It really has nothing to do with aging, but it may have come from a bit of wisdom from being alive for almost eight decades! There is a real comparison between ...