In our series Sticks & Stones, we take a deep dive into medium. Each installment features one of art history’s most significant materials—its history, evolution, and unusual uses.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a 16th century Netherlandish painter, printmaker, and draftsman. His busy, colorful, and sometimes comical landscape scenes depicted the everyday lives of working people—a genre that had fallen out of fashion since Medieval man…

Laura is a Toronto-based freelance illustrator and visual artist. She attended Vancouver Film School and worked in the industry before going freelance. Laura is inspired by vintage children’s books, nature, and animals. Laura is a master at capturing anima…

Karel Purkyně was a Czech painter in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the mid-19th century. The son of a prominent doctor, Purkyně had the opportunity to study painting in Western Europe, particularly in Munich and Paris. There, he studied Old Masters and fa…