STEVE HOLLAND: The World's Greatest Illustration Art Model

Thomas Steven Holland was born January 8, 1925, in Seattle Washington, and died on May 10, 1997, at age 72 in Humboldt County, California following a brief illness. He was married three times and had two children from his first marriage, a son named Claude and a daughter, Nicole.

THE PULP ART OF PETER DRIBEN

Pulp magazines covered numerous genres, including fantasy, crime, Westerns, science-fiction, horror, action, and war. Cover art designs ran the gamut, but often many would feature half-naked young women—there was even a genre devoted exclusively to the subject—the girlie pulps.

THE FIELD OF STORIES

IN HER NEW MEMOIR, POET WARRIOR, PUBLISHED BY W. W. NORTON IN SEPTEMBER, U.S. POET LAUREATE JOY HARJO TRAVELS THE ROADS, RIVERS, AND RHYTHMS OF HER LIFE, TAKING READERS ON A JOURNEY ACROSS GENERATIONS AND SINGING POWERFUL LESSONS ON THE CYCLICAL NATURE OF TIME AND BECOMING.

We Build It Ourselves

A roundtable on race, power, and the writing workshop

Familiar things

MASTER PAINTERS OF THE WORLD

Creating Emphasis

Working from dark to light colors, Pamela Hamilton’s pastel paintings feature the smallest and brightest marks at the focal point

Expression and flow

MASTER PAINTERS OF THE WORLDS

Off the Board

Animals come to life in intricate detail through the boldness and versatility of Melissa Helene’s scratchboard art

Biophilia

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High Altitude

Sarah Mckendry demonstrates how to create depth, atmosphere and mood in her landscape paintings

Skies

More than just blank space, John Lovett explores how skies can add balance and ambiance to a painting

The Calling

THE ART OF THE PORTRAIT

Olafur Eliasson – Climate Activism Through Art

Uncharted

Annie Murphy-Robinson

A Discovery of Self

A Light in the Dark

Using a black underpainting, Jed Dorsey shares the advantages and joys of working from dark to light

Who's Pulling the Strings?

A celebration of the puppets that have always lived among us.

ANA LEAL

"Psychological Landscapes"

How We REMEMBER

WITH HIS FIRST NONFICTION BOOK, HOW THE WORD IS PASSED, PUBLISHED IN JUNE BY LITTLE, BROWN, POET AND SCHOLAR CLINT SMITH DELVES INTO THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY ALIVE IN MONUMENTS AND LANDMARKS WITHIN AND BEYOND THE UNITED STATES, IN AN IMMERSIVE READ THAT EXQUISITELY DEPICTS HOW A NATION AND ITS INHABITANTS REMEMBER ITS HISTORY.

Stone Fruit

Lee Lai introduced

Free as a bird

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Dream Worlds

Working with alcohol ink and acrylics, Hannah Rose creates fluid, fantastical paintings

Glazed

Emily Bickell takes a new approach in her recent paintings, working from the most detailed elements to the simplest

Golden Hour

Plein air painter Paul Kratter demonstrates how he captures the most powerful aspects of the landscape

Open Air

The rich tradition of plein air painting is about connection, emotion and a passion for the great outdoors

PAINTING REALISTIC DINOSAURS

James Gurney shares his top 10 tips for painting lifelike dinosaurs

Salt and sand

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VITA LUKSTINA

"SELF-PORTRAIT"

Richard MacDonald Icons

What does it mean to be iconic? Surely it is beyond the scope of mere talent or fame and encompasses something that closely resembles an apex of the human experience.

REZA RAHIMI LASKO ORIENTAL ISLAMIC ART

Reza Rahimi Lasko was born in 1979 in Iran. At the age of 12, he started his official art studies. The most important encouragement came from his mother, who sent him to begin his professional education by Mr. Majid Arvari in 1997.

OZLEM KALMAZ

THE ORGANIC MOVEMENT