Here is a series of splendid drawings with two things in common: First, they are all drawings of geometric shapes: buildings comprised of st...

Suppose that you were a baron, born of noble blood, but you lost your rank and title after the heir to the throne was murdered. Then let...

Nobody knows for sure why Rembrandt drew this errant line beneath his signature in his famous picture of Adam and Eve: The line seems so inc...

If the electricity ever goes out at your house and it's pitch black in the middle of the night but you need to find "one lovely dra...

The world is divided into those who seal their comic books in mylar containers and those who do not. This division is more fundamental than ...

A mediocre painter who wants to portray danger on the road ahead is likely to spell it out, portraying the ominous cliff and perhaps even ...

Everyone thinks Albert Einstein was such hot stuff because he shattered Isaac Newton's classical model of the universe in which all matt...

Andrew Wyeth There may be no better test of what's inside an artist than their response to what's on our surface. The drama of human...

This week I played hooky for a few days to sit in on lectures at the Illustration Academy in Sarasota, Florida. The Academy assembles some...

Norman Rockwell recalled quite clearly the first time he sold out. Humiliated by his family's poverty, Rockwell resolved to make money a...

"The unutterable and the formless must needs be concealed" . ................ --the Pythagorean brotherhood, circa 500 BCE Saul St...