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Simon Palmer - JHW Fine Art SIMON PALMER is one of Britain’s leading artists working in the traditional medium of watercolour. His work has been shown across the UK since the late 1970s. Since 1995, he has held biennial exhibitions with JHW Fine Art, and since 2015 at Portland Gallery, London, who represent the artist in association with JHW Fine Art. Jane Pack on Robert Beverly Hale 26, January 2009 § I have long appreciated and recommended for students the books of Robert Beverly Hale on drawing and anatomy. Robert Beverly Hale (1901 – 1985) was an artist, curator of American paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and instructor of artistic anatomy at the Art Students League of New York. I found his books many years ago and they transformed my teaching of life drawing.

Create a search engine - Custom Search Help To create a custom search engine from scratch, you'll need to define a name and add some sites to search. On the Google Custom Search home page, click New search engine. In the Sites to search section, add the pages you want to include in your search engine. You can include any sites you want, not just sites you own. You can include site URLs or page URLs, and you can also get fancy and use URL patterns.The name of your search engine will be automatically generated based on the URLs you select. You can change this name at any time.

STEM to STEAM: Resources Toolkit STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math Explore ways to use STEM lessons and approaches to help students practice cross-disciplinary thinking and build skills in science, technology, engineering, and math. (30+ Resources) STEAM: STEM + Arts, Design, Humanities Discover information, examples, and tools related to incorporating aspects of the arts, design, and the humanities into STEM-based school activities. (15+ Resources) Maker Education Find resources and tools to help bring elements of maker culture into schools and classrooms, and encourage students to explore STEAM subjects within the context of maker projects. (30+ Resources)

Robert Mangold's Emotional Optics Robert Mangold has long worked with three elements: a drawn line, the shape of the canvas, and muted color, usually one per shape. For more than 50 years, the different and surprising visual dances he has established within this circumscribed vocabulary have engaged both the eye and mind. Accepting that a painting is a flat surface projecting slightly from the wall, Mangold has never turned his work into an object, as did many of his contemporaries, from Jo Baer and Robert Ryman to Frank Stella and Dorothea Rockburne. Painters Connected: Online Art Classes and Activities While we stay home in order to help flatten the curve of the Coronavirus pandemic, many fantastic resources have appeared online, to help us keep engaged with our practice and feel connected to others. Below is a list of some of our favourites, which we hope we can add to as more activities appear. Please leave a comment if there are any links you would like to contribute, and remember to bookmark this page so you can check back and see what else you might like to tune in to.

Web Search Engines FAQS: Questions, Answers, and Issues Only a few years ago, the phrase "Web search" did not exist. Then the term began to move rapidly into the awareness of information professionals, about as fast as a Japanese bullet train. Today, much, though not all, of the work we do revolves in one way or another around the Web. With so much to keep on top of, precious time becomes even more precious.

STEAM Resources for Any Classroom Here’s a list of the many resources that are out there for STEM and STEAM: from explaining what it is, to sample lessons, to ways that it connects to the Arts. This is a living list, so please feel free to add any resources you have found in your travels in the comment section below! STEM presentations: British Museum: Prints and Drawings - The Solution! Yesterday I highlighted the problems with accessing the Virtual Gallery of the Prints and Drawings held in the permanent collection of the British Museum. Today I have the solution This page provides the Collection search guide.

The Art of Rendering: How to Create an Emotive Architectural Sketch in Photoshop Alex Hogrefe is the creator of Visualizing Architecture, a blog dedicated to educating people in the art of architectural visualization. He is also part of rendering studio Design Distill, generating unique and compelling illustrations for architects around the world. I used to draw a lot when I was younger and all but stopped sometime in college. I’m not sure why, but I always find myself trying to recreate hand drawings through Photoshop.

A-Z List of Art Databases - Art & Art History - LibGuides at University of Michigan Over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. Provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences, including an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. Collections are used for teaching and study in a wide range of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more. All UM affiliates may search and view images; registration required to download images and use the software tools.

Say goodbye to Google: 14 alternative search engines Well it’s been a big week for search, I think we can all agree. If you’re a regular Google user (65% of you globally) then you’ll have noticed some changes, both good and bad. I won’t debate the merits of these improvements, we’ve done that already here: Google kills Right Hand Side Ads and here: Google launches Accelerated Mobile Pages, but there’s a definite feeling of vexation that appears to be coming to a head. Deep breath… As the paid search space increases in ‘top-heaviness’, as organic results get pushed further off the first SERP, as the Knowledge Graph scrapes more and more publisher content and continues to make it pointless to click through to a website, and as our longstanding feelings of unfairness over Google’s monopoly and tax balance become more acute, now more than ever we feel there should be another, viable search engine alternative.

The Emergence of Aubrey Levinthal I could start off by stating the obvious — that Aubrey Levinthal is one of the most interesting and engaging figurative painters at a time when many artists are working in this vein. But that alone does not get to what makes this artist special. What distinguishes Levinthal from her contemporaries is her ability to evoke a melancholic state that speaks directly to the pervasive, daily sense of unease and vulnerability that has been heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic.