Paint by numbers offers a unique way to create beautiful artwork, even for those without prior artistic experience. This ...

As the daughter and granddaughter of two artists who are very persnickety about what constitutes as "real art," I'm reluctant to reveal my love of paint-by-number kits. Specifically, watching the ...

Painting functions as an artistic medium that enables people to channel their inventive thinking and communicate their thoughts. Notwithstanding, not everyone boasts the required artistic talent or ...

LAST WEEK I lay in wait for the mailman, watching from the window for him to appear in his starched blue uniform and rumpled surgical mask. After he drove off, I pulled on my own surgical mask and a ...

A dime store hobby turned most everyone into an artist. The popular paint by numbers after some 71 years since the first kit was introduced at the 1951 New York Toy Fair is still a very popular ...

NAME: Trey Speegle | AGE: 50 | HOMETOWN: Houston | QUALIFICATIONS: Collector of vintage paint-by-number paintings, which serve as inspiration for his own work / Created a backdrop for Stella McCartney ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Dan Robbins, an artist who created the first paint-by-numbers pictures and helped turn the kits into an American sensation during the 1950s, has died. He was 93. Robbins, whose works ...

Critics were aghast, but hobbyists couldn't get enough of it: In the mid-1950s, paint-by-numbers kits were all the rage. Dan Robbins, the artist who helped invent those kits, died at a hospice on ...