Drawing

April 9, 2026

Artist Creates His Own Renaissance Sculpture-Inspired Drawings Made of Millions of Dots

Ukrainian artist Rostislaw Tsarenko creates intricate drawings of fantastical characters and surreal scenes, often spending up to 60 hours on a single piece. Using thousands of tiny dots and delicate crosshatching, his painstaking process requires real dedication—but the results are totally worth it. Tsarenko describes his main challenge as “conveying the realism of thoughts and ideas through dots, no matter how surreal they are.” Looking at his work, you understand exactly what he means.

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November 18, 2025

Spellbinding M.C. Escher Prints Are Now Available Online

For most of his life, M.C. Escher was largely overlooked by the art world. This can perhaps be attributed to the Dutch artist’s singular—though idiosyncratic—style, which was rooted in mathematics, optical illusions, geometry, and so-called “impossible objects.” But, for those very same reasons, he also attracted wide popular interest beyond art institutions, a reputation that has solidified him as one of the greatest graphic artists of the 20th century.

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September 15, 2025

Chess-Inspired Drawings Fuse Fragmentation and Contrast Into a New Way of Storytelling

Chess is all about strategy and rules, but luck and fate also seem to play a hand. Sydney-based artist Sasha Krautman believes that there’s “so much symbolism to be found in one game, in one simple black and white pattern.” Drawing inspiration from the classic two-player board game, she created the Chess Collection, a series of 12 colored pencil drawings where two contrasting images share the same wooden panel.

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My Modern Met

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