Of all the creative paint techniques for making abstract art, blowing paint and soap bubbles has to be one of my favorites. You start by mixing paint, dish soap and water, and then blow bubbles. When ...

If you don’t know how they’re made, Jiří Georg Dokoupil’s paintings might look like microscope photos of phosphorescent deep-sea hydrozoa, or maybe computer-generated cartoon characters. Turns out, ...

I had never seen a soap bubble in an old painting before. I naively and unthinkingly believed that the thin film of water that floats on air was an occurrence that came into being relatively ...

French painters Jean Siméon Chardin and Édouard Manet both created well-known paintings that depicted children blowing bubbles through straw-like tubes, albeit painted more than a century apart. Those ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 73 (Sale info: For Sale). Catalogue of Paintings, Statuary, etc. in the Art Department of the Great North-Western Fair held in Chicago, Ill., June, 1865, for ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. NOT NUMBERED (Sale info: $14.00). [Price noted in contemporary hand.] Catalogue of the Valuable Oil-Paintings; Rare Antique, Buhl, and other Elegant ...