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September 2, 2025

Learn How To Draw Freehand Landscapes in This Online Art Course

Perspective can be an intimidating drawing skill to learn. In fact, perspective drawing as we conceive of it today originated during the Renaissance. While other artists had dabbled in perspective prior to the 15th century, Filippo Brunelleschi is often credited as the artist who formalized the approach in his paintings.

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July 22, 2025

Arts or Crafts? Get the Best of Both Worlds With These Three Amazing Online Classes

For a long time, the Western canon has separated “arts” and “crafts.” This distinction has its own fascinating history, but today, the lines between the two camps have blurred. When it comes to creating art, the possibilities are truly endless. There are a thousand and one ways to draw and paint, as there are to sculpt, photograph, collage, and so on.

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July 1, 2025

Let Freedom (and Creativity) Ring With My Modern Met Academy’s Fourth of July Sale

This Friday, America will celebrate its 249th birthday on the Fourth of July. The country’s Independence Day is one of celebrating in community, and honoring quintessentially American principles of freedom, liberty, and justice for all. Freedom in all its forms also means the permission to create and express yourself how you choose. To celebrate, My Modern Met Academy is offering an exclusive 4th of July sale, from July 1-4.

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