L. S. Lowry’s Early Life Laurence Stephen Lowry was born on the 1st November 1887. He was a big boy, far from the delicate daughter his mother wanted. She showed him little affection. L. S .Lowry was a very shy boy. He once wrote, ‘I have no really happy memories of childhood.’ Lowry was an […]
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If you want to be an artist you have to be able to draw. In this art tutorial, aimed at beginners and students of art, I explain what drawing is. Drawing is a language, like any other language because it is a means of communication. Drawing has an ‘alphabet’ of marks, textures, tones, shapes etc. […]
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Frida Kahlo was an amazing artist. Her work explores issues that affected herself with honesty and integrity, which is why her paintings are held in such high regard. She was born in Coyoacan, Mexico City in 1907 and died in 1954 aged just 47. She contracted polio when a toddler and was involved in a […]
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