by artkitfactory | Aug 8, 2018 | Doodles, How To, STEAM
Doodling 101 or 5 Reasons Doodling Should be Taught in School In the last 10 years, doodling has become the coolest tool for idea generation and information processing in the new economy. Companies even hire professional visual note takers to document board meetings... 
by artkitfactory | Feb 13, 2018 | Doodles, Valentine's Day
Esther Howland, the Mother of the American Valentine, brought the first affordable commercial valentines to the United States. Ester started her valentine card making business at 19 years old in 1847. In her first year, Ester sold $5,000 worth of valentines.... 
by artkitfactory | Jan 25, 2018 | Art History
” A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the... 
by artkitfactory | Nov 3, 2017 | Art History, Featured, Free Downloads, Travel
Feeling inspired by the Día de Muertos festivities in Los Angeles yesterday, I embarked on a little research project about art inspired by the Mexican holiday. In the process of reading about José Guadalupe Posada, Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera, I read about The... 
by artkitfactory | Oct 5, 2017 | Featured, Free Downloads, STEAM
Fall is in the air in Los Angeles. No, we don’t really have “fall colors” or “sweater weather.” At least not yet – we get a little of that in February and March. Fall at our studio is a low of 57 degrees with a high of 75. Sometimes...
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