ART COLOURING

Fairy tales, flowers, food, and fun—you'll find them all here with a dash of fantasy from the creative mind of Janelle Dimmett. Dimmett (American, b. 1990) grew up drawing farm animals and wildlife in rural Missouri and earned a bachelor's degree in fine...

Tom Thomson (Canadian, 1877–1917), the sixth of ten children, grew up on a farm near Leith, Ontario (on the shore of Georgian Bay), but chose to earn a living as a commercial artist. He was an avid outdoorsman, fisherman, and canoeist, spending much of...

American artist Lisa Houck (b. 1953) expresses her view of nature through wild and vibrant paintings, ceramics, prints, and mosaics. The creatures and plants that appear in her waterColours and oil paintings seem to be curling, swirling, twirling, and...

Born in South Carolina to a poor African American family, William H. Johnson (1901–1970) moved to New York at age seventeen. He worked a variety of jobs to pay for an art education at the prestigious National Academy of Design, where he earned numerous...

Kawase Hasui was born in Tokyo in 1883. His parents were merchants, but after trying his hand at the family business, Hasui decided it wasn't for him. Instead, at the age of twenty-five he began studying art at the school of master Japanese painter...

Almost 150 years ago, a group of French painters created a shocking new style. Instead of painting the usual illustrations of historical events or grand portraits of kings and queens, they set out to capture moments from everyday life. Their paintings...

Growing up on a farm, Robert Bissell learned to love animals and nature. When he became a painter, he chose to make pictures of wild animals living in an enchanted land. The rabbits and bears in his paintings can do extraordinary things, like float a...

Artist Mimi Vang Olsen travels the world, meeting with cats and gathering the information she needs to create her Colourful and folksy pet portraits. Vang Olsen always incorporates something from the cat's home setting into the portrait—maybe a favorite...

Artist Gustave Baumann (American, b. Germany, 1881–1971) immigrated with his family to the United States from Germany when he was ten years old. At the age of sixteen he began full-time work in a commercial engraving house and took night classes in...

During his lifetime, Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862–1918) was said to have created the most beautiful painting in the world. Not all critics agreed with that opinion, but one thing is certain: Gustav Klimt displayed great flair for originality in the...

After the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scottish, 1868–1928) and his wife, Margaret Macdonald, left the Scottish city of Glasgow and moved to London, they began painting designs for two large manufacturers of fine fabrics. Most of the pictures in...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919) is one of the most well-loved painters in the history of modern art. Mostly he painted landscapes in the south of France, scenes of his family, and portraits of various people. He painted in the impressionist...