I carved my quill pens with a straight razor blade. I whittled my own walking stick from a large branch. Crafting your own objects connects you with those objects in a concrete way. I mixed my ...

For instance, I used old-fashioned crow quill pens when illustrating The Spiderwick Chronicles to emulate art from the 19th century. For the WondLa books, I used Staedtler Pigment Liners on a sheet of ...

Warrior Run Heritage Days featured demonstrations led by volunteers in period costumes covering a wide array of foods, crafts ...

Photograph provided by The Wyoming Dinosaur Center Poised like a quill pen, this fossil feather is one among many that are helping paleontologists flesh out the story of Archaeopteryx. The ...

Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most ...

What's more, you can bring out your inner artistic abilities with pen and ink drawing classes by creating an ink illustration using quill pens and ink, along with friendly techniques for tone and ...

By Holland Cotter Lisa Schiff acknowledges stealing millions from major collectors who trusted her to buy them fashionable art. By Sarah Maslin Nir His Brutalist buildings, praised during the ...

Jackson Local third graders visited the Jackson Center School one-room schoolhouse to learn more about life in 1875.

When the Nasher Museum of Art had a hole in its exhibition schedule last year ... “Create an image of an accountant from Charles Dickens' time working at a desk with a quill pen in a dingy, candle-lit ...

Hyperbole inevitably provokes a cynical response. Far too many art exhibitions proclaim themselves “a once-in-a-lifetime show,” dare you to “miss at your peril,” and any number of superlative ...

The 2024 Paris Olympics captured the world’s attention with viral athlete memes, Tyla’s Met Gala sand dress amazed us, Brat green took over our Instagram feeds, and a baby hippopotamus warmed our ...

Okay, The Tortured Poets Department has a bunch of writing-adjacent Easter eggs like shelves of books, typewriters, and a quill and fountain pen—so we ... be hung as wall art if they don't ...