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Paint-by-number kits are a great way to get started in painting. Their preplanned paintings free new artists from worries about what to paint so they can learn how to paint. Most kits come with ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Dan Robbins, an artist who created the first paint-by-numbers pictures and helped turn the kits into an American sensation during the 1950s, has died. He was 93. Robbins, whose works ...

When it comes to discovering hobbies in our 20s we’ve found some of our new go-tos have been those we’ve already done in childhood, from swimming, to dance classes, and of course painting by numbers.

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A small-town artist who created the first paint-by-numbers pictures and helped turn the kits into an American sensation during the 1950s has died at age 93. Dan Robbins, whose works were dismissed by ...