I think I may have discovered the mark of a truly well-designed children’s video game: it makes you feel old. Not in a bad way — just that it makes you suspect you have to actually be a person of ...

We're often taught that mistakes in art are to be avoided. Even kids are brought up to be perfectionists: to scrub it out and start again if their artwork doesn't go the way they planned. Of course, ...

There is a difference between drawing and drawing well. Many of us like to sketch and may have shown a talent for it, but that's as far as most of us have taken it. To really learn to draw well, ...

This is an intensive high school institute for rising sophomores, juniors and seniors preparing portfolios for art school admission and for those about to enter an art school program. Each day will ...

Scribble’s inventors Mark Barker and Robert Hoffman say the device works by using a color sensor and microprocessor to detect colours and mix the required ink for drawing. The video above explains the ...

First rule of reading anything: if a headline is an interrogative, the answer is a resounding ‘no’. This might be the one exception to that rule. This Kickstarter is actually fairly interesting. Not ...

JOHN PATRICK: Lately, I've been doing a series of segments about garden design and people have been contacting us to ask us what do the different symbols I use mean? So let's have a look at some of ...

Lattices often crop up in nature. Take the conspicuous design of dragonfly wings (left), a spider web (middle) or the veined underbelly of a Victoria Amazonica water lily (right). Photo Credit: Getty ...