The six primary emotions of anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise may be a pretty simple way to boil down our emotions. We are much deeper than that and as we grow we learn to control these emotions in various ways. The first way is by controlling the intensity. If you watch a baby you will find an increase in the intensity of emotions for example from concern to anxiety to FEAR to terror. I look at a baby and I see concern in his eyes, as I get closer I can see anxiety as he…

When it comes to learning to draw nothing beats watching how it is done. This is the only course I have come across where you can watch a professional artist demonstrates how to draw people.

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The Art I students designed birthday cards for their favorite artists!

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These lively portraits are by Morgan Davidson, a 21-year old Illustration major at Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida. I especially like looking at her process where she layers color upon color to create depth as well as the vivid...

I realized yesterday that I didn't give much explanation of our class and why we are doing it. So here it is--I love kids and I love art. It makes me sad how little art instruction kids are getting in school right now and I truly feel like I, personally, have to do something about it. So I open my house to kids and we make art together and we talk about art together and I LOVE IT!! and I hope they do too. And then I put explanations and class re-caps on my blog for my students, their parents…

This 8 cm high carving of a human face on mammoth ivory is 26,000 years old, and was found in former Czechoslovakia. The object is the oldest portrait of a human being yet discovered. The head appears to have been fastened to a staff or baton.

Anton Hähnischs miniature copy is based on Franz Xaver Winterhalters half-length oil sketch of June 1861 (400761: Royal Collection) showing the Princess in mourning for her grandmother, the Duchess of Kent, who had died on 16 March. She wears a black evening dress with a locket suspended from a black ribbon around her neck and jet hoop earrings.Born in Vienna, Anton Hähnisch studied at the Academy there before travelling to Berlin (1847 – 8), Frankfurt, Paris, London (1850 – 63), Rome...

Nothing is more basic than having access to healthy food, yet more than 300,000 central Maryland residents are food insecure due to limited funds and lack of other resources such as nearby grocery stores and transportation. United Way of Central Maryland’s “Access to Healthy Food Initiative” is a three year program that aims to increase access to healthy food by 1.5 million pounds each year. For the third year in a row, Calvert will be helping with this cause by conducting a Fresh Food Drive…

This 100 faces project definitely got me drawing and loosened me up (mind and hand). Each of the faces so far has turned out so different. It is fun to know I have the ability to draw and paint so …

****Completely HAND-DRAWN by artist - myself :) - not digital in any way! Size 11 x 14, one pet, head/shoulders, plain background. We love our pets like members of our families! They love us back unconditionally. Why not immortalize your pet with a custom portrait capturing his/her personality and

Enjoy some relaxing time with me (or listen to me scream?) playing (mostly horror)games. my gaming channel►https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQTgLe6CJRQgCOv6d...

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