Make a short comic, solve a color mismatch, plan a museum visit or examine the records behind an artwork. These guides pair explanations with exercises, worked examples and sources you can follow.
Browse by the task that brings you here. Historical exhibition coverage and essays are grouped separately below.
Draw and create
How to Draw Manga: From First Sketch to a Short Comic
Learn character construction, gesture, perspective and panel flow through a three-panel comic exercise and printable practice sheet.
Making 3D Anime Art: From Character Setup to a Finished Scene
Create a posed and lit 3D anime-style still using a tested Blender starter scene, with camera, rendering and file-saving steps.
AI and Art: Ten Creative Workflows
Explore generative imagery, style experiments, composition, restoration and other AI-assisted art workflows.
Color and image use
Color Management for Digital Art and Printing
Identify color mismatches, prepare image profiles and make a controlled screen-to-print comparison with a reusable log.
Color Language: Turn Visual Feedback into a Clear Brief
Translate vague color feedback into a clear brief with reference swatches, defined changes and an approval record.
Using Getty Images: Choose an Image and Check Its License
Match a Getty Images asset to its intended use, check the applicable terms and keep a clear image-licensing record.
Look closely and plan a museum visit
How to Look at Seurat’s La Grande Jatte
Explore composition, brushwork, preparatory studies and pigment evidence in Seurat’s La Grande Jatte, with the museum reproduction.
King Tut’s Treasures: How to Understand the Objects and Exhibitions
Interpret Tutankhamun’s tomb objects, read exhibition labels and follow an object into the Griffith Institute’s excavation archive.
Visiting the Jepson Center: Art, Architecture and Family Planning
Plan a Jepson Center visit around art, architecture, family activities, available time and current Telfair visitor information.
Collecting, records and market evidence
How the Art Business Works: People, Records and Provenance
Understand art transaction roles and organize object identity, provenance, condition evidence and unanswered questions.
How to Read Art Market Prices and Auction Results
Read auction estimates and results, calculate a hypothetical complete purchase cost and examine the limits of art indexes.
Historical artists, exhibitions and events
Denver Arts Week
Historical coverage of Denver’s arts event; consult current organizers for dates and participating venues.
Graceland Painting
Historical coverage of Thomas Kinkade’s artwork marking the anniversary of Elvis Presley’s Graceland purchase.
Modern Landscape Artists
Historical exhibition coverage exploring different approaches to landscape and spatial relationships.
Australian Artist Margi
Historical coverage of Margi’s layered, colorful work at New York’s National Arts Club.
Double Take Art Exhibit
Historical Seattle exhibition coverage pairing Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works with later art.
Stained Glass
Historical account of restoring illumination to Ken Toney’s ceiling artwork at Phoenix Sky Harbor.
Spider-Man Art
Historical coverage of an Alex Ross painting associated with the Spider-Man 2 title sequence.
International Buddhist Film Festival
Historical coverage of the festival’s debut at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Historical essays on art
Artistic Beauty — Joshua Reynolds
An essay from Reynolds’s Ninth Discourse considering beauty as an object of art.
