One Week to Go: Here's an Easy Thanksgiving Planning Primer

What to Watch After Black Panther: An Afrofuturism Primer

Black Panther may be the highest-profile Afrofuturist artwork to penetrate the public consciousness, but it doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

A Thanksgiving Prayer When You Dread Going Home

A prayer for those whose Thanksgiving may be rife with stress, anger, and regret.

When Your Estate Plan Includes Fine Art

Collectors of fine art are advised not to think of their collections as investments, but collectors cannot ignore the value of their art portfolio, nor should they fail to consider what will happen to the artwork when they are not around to appreciate it. And as the art portfolio grows...

Can you hear me now? No cell service made a great Thanksgiving

As we rush headlong toward Christmas — the holy day and the holiday with all that both entail — I find I’m not quite ready to let go of Thanksgiving.

Photographing Cars Is Easy, Right?

Show up, park up, click. Done. That’s all there is to it. Well, not quite… Don’t get me wrong – it is without a doubt one of the best jobs in the world. And, as with any job, the results you see are in close correlation to the effort that you put in. You can do …

For Hummingbirds, It’s Easy to Shift Into Reverse

A new study has reported that backward flight is almost as efficient as forward flight.

Ten Easy Steps to Photography with Impact

This free e-book shares ten simple concepts that will help you make more creative decisions with your camera and more visual impact with your photographs.

Original Illustrations in Four Easy Steps

Creating original illustrations can be quick and accessible with a streamlined process and basic skills. The key is to be intentional.

The Art World Is Easy to Dislike. Here Are Some Reasons Not to.

For T’s inaugural online art issue, we’ll be highlighting some of the things that give us hope in an often-derided industry.

Holy Everything: It's easy to (wrongly) assume the worst of others

People make judgments about other people, and we usually do so unconsciously. These judgments frequently stem from a cognitive bias known as fundamental attribution error. This refers to the tendency

Studio makes painting a portrait of your pet easy

Create a work of art based on your favorite companion

Cage Makes Project Management Easy for Artists

While the Internet has made working from a “virtual office” online fast and effective, it can have its difficulties as well. There is a lot one can lose track of between numerous phone calls, email threads, chat sessions, and occasional face-to-face meetings. This can be especially true of those working in the visual arts such …

8 Ideas for When Creativity Is Too Easy or Hard

two creative extremes Salvador Dali offered aren't good answers for creative direction. You want strategies to turn creative extremes into challenging, workable

5 Easy Steps To Avoid Losing Your Pictures, PART II

THIS IS AN UPDATED VERSION OF A BLOG WE PUT OUT AT EVERY HOLIDAY…WITH SOME NEW INFORMATION! I have the tendency to reblog this before every major holiday. The reason I do it is because itR…

Photoshop's newest tool makes object selection ridiculously easy

Last year, Photoshop introduced a tool called ‘Select Subject’ that made it super simple to select a primary subject from an image – or at least give you a decent starting point. Problem was, this feature worked across the entire image; you’d have to do some extra work if you only wanted to select one …

Reality Gets Flexible in the Pseudo-Documentary 'Sick Birds Die Easy'

What do you conclude from a series of jungle acid trips? Needless to say, it's hazy.

Finding Artwork To Match Your Home Just Got Easier

An Easy Life Versus a Meaningful Life

You can’t move up the ladder by yearning for a life of ease. And so, while our forefathers and mothers didn’t have easy lives, they had profoundly meaningful and spiritual lives—lives that charted our very course and destiny, and whose qualities are embedded in our spiritual DNA.