With this week being the official kickoff to the holiday season, why not get ahead of gift shopping for your loved ones? My Modern Met Academy is having a huge Black Friday sale on all of our online art classes, making them the perfect gifts for friends and family.
For many people, sight is arguably the most prevalent of the five senses in their daily lives.
Feeling stuck creatively? Interested in experimenting with a new style or medium, but not sure where to start?
Viviene Astakhova is a mixed-media artist from St. Petersburg who has a talent for creating beautiful and elegant illustrations of European architecture. Her unique style lends her works a kind of lightness to them, while still maintaining a technical precision that exudes quiet sophistication. Astakhova primarily works in watercolor and ink to achieve this look, a testament to her talents as an artist and her love of beautiful architecture.
If you’ve ever walked around a city and felt like you were in the middle of a painting, you may...
As the weather changes and we get more and more into the fall season, it’s the perfect opportunity to slow...
Demi Lang is a British artist who specializes in creating realistic and detailed architectural illustrations that seem to come off the page. Working primarily within pencils and ink, Lang is known for her charming drawings of famous and local buildings, whether it be the Notre Dame in Paris or a little bakery just around the corner. Her care for architecture and love of art both manifest themselves in the excellent quality of her work.
Have you ever seen sketches of buildings by Renaissance masters like Brunelleschi or Michelangelo?
Mixed-media artist and My Modern Met Academy instructor Nitika Alé creates ethereal, vibrant works based on a harmonious blend of...
Ever created a work of art and thought it was missing a little je ne sais quoi? What it might have needed was a bit of texture—literally. Layering different mediums like charcoal or pastel onto painted subjects and vice versa can be surprising, dynamic, and add that extra oomph that a piece may be needing to feel complete.
Drawing may be considered a building block of art, but there’s no doubt that it can be daunting to learn.
Illustrator and educator Sam Gillett has created entire worlds from his imagination and brought them to life with his art.
