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 ...

GRANVILLE, N.Y. — The Slate Valley Museum will host a Paint on Slate workshop on Friday, July 25, from 7 - 9 p.m.

She has now painted hundreds of Bermuda fish, birds, cottages and beach scenes on slate. Some of her pieces are fridge magnet size, and others are big enough to hang on the wall. Prices range from ...

When Tom Hartz was a young lad in the 1950s, dragline power shovels had pretty much replaced the hardy miners that harvested coal hundreds of feet beneath the earth’s surface. Still, growing up in the ...

He first flirted with the idea of painting on slate after he saw his younger brother cut simple patterns on flat stone with a drill bit in 1996.

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