Art lovers can peruse a contour sketching demo, clay art created by students and myriad drawings, paintings and photography to the background of jazz music at the Grayslake Art Alliance’s art show ...

Star City High School art students recently had to think on their feet in order to create original works of art. Students in Roger Darren High’s art I classes focused their critical thinking skills on ...

The benefits of clear surface shading in a design patent were highlighted in a recent district circuit decision, which found that purported contour or tangent edge lines added to the drawings to ...

Understand how the weight, thickness and orientation of lines can create the illusion of form within an artwork. A descriptive cross-hatching technique creates tone and shape in Albrecht Durer’s ...

Mark making describes the different lines, dots, marks, patterns and textures created in a drawing. It can apply to any drawing materials. It can be loose and expressive or controlled and neat. The ...

We love to separate art into neat categories, painting, drawing, sculpture, as if they belong to different worlds. But what ...