For the next two hours I watched and judged as some two dozen sculptures, drawings, paintings, poems, and musical pieces were paraded before me. All the artwork, I learned, was inspired by a single word: “bodacious.” The Lampreys fittingly are a bodacious bunch. “A couple of years ...
During the past decade, Kuang has been dedicated to holding people's memories of the vanishing hutong by taking photos and producing pencil drawings. Kuang's drawings offer the audience the chance to get an insight into hutong by selecting those most representative of those from past times. In ...
A Scottish artist has been owed increasing the fortunes of the global pencil industry to after the surprise success of her “coloring-in” books for grown-ups. Johanna Basford’s books of wonderful fill-in drawings have met a huge demand from those seeking to switch off from iPads, laptops...