There’s an old saying that many people look like their pets or that their pets resemble them in some way. And if a home is an extension of a person’s personality, then why not include the family dog?

We think Tim Newlin’s 2011 Art calendar is his most beautiful yet, and it’s available FREE to you to download and print for personal use or in your classroom. Also, watch Tim’s 90 second musical video of Tim drawing a Gray Cat using the timtim.com drawing tool.

The Murals DC project started by Jim Graham, a Washington DC City Council Member, uses known DC graffiti artists to mentor and train young taggers, instilling a sense of community and pride in their work. It is an effort to replace illegal graffiti with artistic works, to revitalize sites within the community and to teach young people the art of spray painting.

A few of the world’s best known drawings. They communicate so much and are so powerful that they can be worth millions of dollars. How many do you recognize?

She was very ugly with a big hooked nose, warts, a pointy chin, bad teeth, and dark gray hair popping out from under her evil looking hat and she scared me to death.

Our first customer was a man that slapped a nickel on our counter, grabbed the pitcher, filled and gulped down two cups of Kool-Aid, crushed the cup, tossed it on the ground and walked away.

In 1959 Thomas Dam was an unemployed danish fisherman. With no money to buy a Christmas gift for his daughter Lajla, he used his family’s carving talents to make a gift. He created a wooden, troll doll modeling it after his own mirror image. 51 years later the trolls are going to Hollywood. On June 22nd DreamWorks Animation Inc. announced a deal with Dam Things from Denmark to use the popular Good Luck Troll dolls in a major animated film.

Take a purplish-red seaweed dye, add fine red clay, iron oxide (rust), henna, iodine, and a poisonous alcohol sugar called bromine mannite, then and add a slimy lump of stone-crushed dead beetles and ants, stir well into a sticky soup, then use your finger to carefully color your lips, allow to dry, apply again, and repeat the process several times until the toxic color sinks deep into your skin. It not only sounds disgusting, but it is almost sure to make you sick.

Total disorientation, jumbled sensory input, loss of balance, and temporary mental blackout – that’s what an earthquake does to you and it is almost impossible not to panic and to do the right thing when a quake strikes. I have felt it, and anyone who has can tell you it is like nothing you’ve ever experienced before and never want to again.

Snoopy from the ‘Peanuts’ comic strip was created by Charles Schulz. Schulz had a philosophy about life that came out in his work and can best be summed up with the following quiz. Try this out and you’ll get the point.