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A blueprint for engineering the ultimate cocktail party. Illustrator Melissa Wood drew upon her architectural training for this tongue in cheek guide to mixing martinis, Manhattans and other popular libations. Using the traditional format of the blueprint, Wood's ingenious ...

Artist John Douglas stakes each work of art on his first stroke of color, allowing color and shape to flow in response. Using wet on wet technique, Douglas layers swaths of purple, sage, orange, gray and green watercolor that ...

Each print in this series of two bespeaks artist Jennifer Goldberger's mastery of watercolor painting. In a palette of blue, periwinkle, gray and brown, she mixes wet on dry, wet on wet, waterspotting, scraping and dry brush techniques in ...