• Mary Sully

    Mary Sully

    Mary Sully was a Standing Rock Sioux artist working in the early twentieth century who produced…

  • Kirchner & Masereel

    Kirchner & Masereel

    Frans Masereel was a Belgian artist and printmaker who worked primarily in the first half of…

  • Beardsley: A Line Alive

    Beardsley: A Line Alive

    Aubrey Beardsley died in 1898 at just 25 years old, yet the body of work he…

  • Sophy Hollington

    Sophy Hollington

    Sophy Hollington is a British illustrator working primarily in linocut. Her images are built entirely from…

  • Notan Around The World

    Notan Around The World

    While the term Notan is a Japanese design concept, the actual working of notan — a dynamic…

  • Leaning Into Line

    Leaning Into Line

    This is a collection of some painters who come to mind who lean into line as…

  • Tutorial: Notan Exercises

    Tutorial: Notan Exercises

    This tutorial is indebted to Dorr Bothwell’s book Notan. When I first read it, it stirred…

  • Jonathan Lasker
  • Tutorial: Point, Line, Plane

    Tutorial: Point, Line, Plane

    Elements Each Student must use only the following lines cut from black paper: Note: Lines should…

  • Tessellation: M.C. Escher

    Tessellation: M.C. Escher

    Maurits Cornelis Escher was born in Leeuwarden , Netherlands on June 17th , 1898 . He…