Nguyen Trung Kien, who has taken a gap year to indulge his passion for painting, turns stones into works of art. Kien, 22, is sitting in his room at home in Hanoi’s Hoang Mai District painting ...

One of the most popular activities in the arts-and-crafts world right now is painting stones. I can see why people love it so much. Stones are an inexpensive and readily available canvas to create ...

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KOCHI: Artist Sreeja Pillai was doing some research for a book on the history of art when she realised that, in ancient times, before the advent of canvas, people did paintings on stone. “They would ...

The opening of the Saint Louis Art Museum’s latest main exhibition, Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred, 1530-1800, may have been delayed due to COVID, but the postponement was just small ...

Until recently, the Renaissance and Baroque practice of painting on polished stone—from slate, marble, agate and alabaster to lapis lazuli and amethyst—drew relatively little attention from scholars.

A new exhibition in Rome explores painters from the 17th century who used stone instead of canvas after numerous works of art were looted during invasions. They sought to make their art last forever.

KOTA KINABALU: The art of painting on stones using acrylic is something that is rarely seen here and usually done by individuals as a hobby. In fact most Sabahans would not have been aware of this ...

Four weeks ago, Sam McKinven decided to paint some pictures on stones and hide them for her friends’ children to find on a day out. Less than a month on, this simple idea has been taken up by a group ...