Art

July 12, 2020

Artist Forages Her Home to Arrange Beautiful Botanicals Into Ethereal Illustrations

Nature lover, writer, and botanical artist Bridget Beth Collins (aka Flora Forager) creates artwork using plants like a painter would pigment. She artistically arranges flowers and leaves into whimsical illustrations that look like they’re straight out of a fairytale. The Seattle-based creative lives in an urban cottage that she and her young family call The Burrow, because, the artist says, “it looks and feels like a hobbit hole.

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July 10, 2020

Letterpress Printing: From Its Beginnings to the Artisan Revival Going on Today

Printmaking has helped change the world. The ability to reproduce text and images allowed information and ideas to quickly and easily spread throughout society, making knowledge not just a marker of the rich or well connected. It was the invention of the printing press, refined in the 15th century, that facilitated this phenomenon. But what technique was used to put ink to paper?

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July 8, 2020

The Colorful History of Depression Glass and Its Continued Popularity

Have you ever looked into your grandmother’s china cabinet and found a few pieces of lightly tinted glassware? Ever wonder what these curiously colored objects were or where they came from? Well, wonder no more! These varied forms of rainbow-tinged glassware are called Depression glass. They were incredibly commonplace when they first started being sold in the late 1920s, and truly came in a rainbow array of colors and patterns.

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July 7, 2020

People Around the World Ask This Artist to Reimagine Them as Cartoons

Have you ever commissioned a caricature artist for a hilarious (if also uncannily accurate) portrait of yourself? Illustrator Robert Dejesus merges the quirky energy of traditional caricatures with his own expressive anime-like style. People from around the world commission him to transform their photographs into whimsical cartoon characters that pop off the page.

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My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.