In the debate over real Christmas trees or artificial trees, you can place Keith and Catherine Martell in the real tree camp. The Martells and their children have been operating Martell’s Northwoods ...

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London’s Battersea Power Station is one of the most famous buildings in the world, largely thanks to it featuring on the cover of the Pink Floyd album Animals. After its decommissioning way back in ...

Last year, Wallace and Gromit were projected on to the Battersea Power Station’s 330-feet tall chimneys. The year before, work by David Hockney. This year, it could be yours. A U.K. competition ...

Struck by lightning during a roaring thunderstorm 10 years ago, an ancient pine tree in Bolivia’s capital of La Paz is thriving. Known as the “miracle tree,” this giant conifer now draws devotees from ...

On the Draw tab, there are various drawing tools that you can use, namely: Select tool: Select objects such as ink, shapes, and text area. They are useful when working with objects behind the text. To ...

Weather drawing by Addie of Mrs. Mohler's first grade class at Baxter Elementary School. Attention teachers: Don't forget to submit your students' weather drawing to the Brainerd Dispatch, 506 James ...

I’m usually opposed to both book destruction and the use of clichés but exceptions may have to be made for the new picture book from the Minnesota Historical Society, “How to Draw a Tree.” The book is ...

Embracing geographic and seasonal variability, LaRochelle’s observational text coaches would-be artists using simple tactics for noticing. After a basic directive (“Go outside and find a tree”), ...

Attention teachers: Don't forget to submit your students' weather drawings to the Brainerd Dispatch, 506 James St., Brainerd, MN 56401 Weather drawing by Novalee Addison from Mrs. Martin's first grade ...

JavaFX isn't hard to learn. In fact, any developer with a little bit of object-oriented knowledge and a penchant for desktop development in Java can quickly put together a feature-rich GUI application ...