The Japanese practice of drawing patterns in sand, known as “karesansui” or “dry landscape” gardening, is often associated with Zen Buddhism. These gardens are designed to embody a sense of ...

In staring at the photo-real drawing of the perfect bird, you marvel over the technical ability required to produce it. You also study the sloppy sketch just as long, picking out each one of its flaws ...

Inspired by the Martin Scorsese film Hugo, an obsessive Lego enthusiast built a programmable machine that writes messages and draws pictures. All you have to do is turn a crank. Andrew Carol, who ...

Great art has the capacity to transport viewers across the emotional spectrum. It can be revitalizing, devastating, beautiful, and terrifying. It can also be made by a hamster. The Hamster Powered ...

Every morning at 6:30, Andrew Mowbray rides his bike from his home in Dorchester to the Boston Harborwalk, where his wind-drawing machine is on display through Sept. 27 between Old Harbor Park and the ...

Arduino enthusiasts that are looking for a new creative project to build, might take inspiration from a new electromechanical drawing machine that has been built, which is powered by music and has ...

The illustrator has been experimenting with tools outside of her usual sketchbook, tablet and computer – with fascinating ...

What can A.I. teach us about Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci? A lot, as we discovered from a new online retrospective from Google Arts and Culture that’s powered by machine learning.

NEWFANE — When New Hampshire artist Don Fitzpatrick was setting up his harmonograph recently at Moore Library a person walked up to him and asked, "Where is the motor?" Fitzpatrick replied, "There is ...