I've often made fun of today's fashionable comic artists who can't draw. You'll find them in lofty venues like the New York ...

For more than a century, the New York Times kept its nose in the air and refused to carry comic strips the way other newspapers did. Odi Pro...

This is an unpublished sketch by the great Frank Brangwyn. One of the things I like best about this drawing is how Brangwyn renders in a tig...

Last year on Valentine's Day, my enthusiasm got the better of my critical judgment and I posted one of the valentines that my sweetie a...

In my youth I loved the smell of turpentine, the feel of a pen nib biting textured paper, and the sight of wet watercolor sparkling like ich...

Drawing for Fantasia by James Algal, director of sequencing (1940) Last week I had a good chat with Dave Bossert who is Disney's Creativ...

This painting by Van Gogh is so uniquely beautiful that the Yasuda Insurance Company paid $39.9 million dollars for it. But wait a minute......

The great illustrator Dean Cornwell applied oil paint like he was buttering a croissant. I see this painting every day, and the pleasure I t...

A nifty computer image from the blog of Disney concept artist Todd Harris In my last post, I mentioned that art originated in the paleolith...

At the earliest red dawn of humanity, our ancestors slowly learned to use stone tools. For more than 2 million years they used stones in th...

Sarah Goodridge (1788-1853) was born in a small village in Massachussetts, the sixth of nine children. Growing up in the country, she learne...

There's obviously no such thing as the single greatest drawing in the history of the world. It would be foolish to think about rating ar...

One item that made all the press in 2006 was the story of the counterfeit Norman Rockwell . The Norman Rockwell Museum was embarrassed to di...

I generally sympathize with Matisse's view that artists should cut their tongues out so they won't be tempted to explain their work....

    100 years ago, women were thrilled by Redbook magazine's romantic stories about dark and mysterious men, exotic perils from the ori...