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 ...

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 ...

Members of the editorial and news staff of the Los Angeles magazine and the Engine Vision Media Network were not involved in the creation of this content. Getting creative is an amazing way to express ...

Paint-by-number kits are a great way to get started in painting. Their preplanned paintings free new artists from worries about what to paint so they can learn how to paint. Most kits come with ...

In 1953, the Detroit-based paint company Craft Master was the driving power behind the paint-by-number craze that swept the midcentury hobbyist market. Not only had the company invented the ...

When it comes to discovering hobbies in our 20s we’ve found some of our new go-tos have been those we’ve already done in childhood, from swimming, to dance classes, and of course painting by numbers.

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 ...

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 ...

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