Last week, the artist behind paint-by-numbers, Dan Robins, passed away. A paint-by-numbers picture was my first experience in painting – with oil paints anyway. I think I did a few.
I was interested to learn that he picked up the idea from Leonardo da Vinci. “I remembered hearing that Leonardo used numbered background patterns for his students and apprentices, and I decided to try something like that.”
“I never claim that painting by numbers is art. But it is the experience of art, and it brings that experience to the individual who would normally not pick up a brush, not dip it in paint. That’s what it does.” Dan Robins.
Break-a-Brush!
David
On Dan Robins:https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/apr/05/dan-robbins-artist-behind-paint-by-numbers-phenomenon-dies-at-93