"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere," Vincent Van Gogh once wrote. Could he have been comparing his work with painter's palette or Persian shield, works of art by Mother Nature ...

The Artist’s Palette, the newest venue at the Wildlands Conservancy’s Southern California Montane Botanic Garden in the Oak Glen Preserve, is blooming with native wildflowers. Inspired by the ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has just added a new Ancient Egyptian treasure to its collection: a 3,400-year-old painter’s palette carved from a single piece of ivory. And the little ...

Those of us who love to look at paintings for the sheer pleasure of it tend naturally to think a lot about the end result and very little about the means to that end. We forget that a work of art is ...

For all the paint fragments found throughout the ancient world, on murals, pottery, sculpture, and scrolls, surprisingly few ancient paint palettes have been uncovered. Ancient palettes in the ...