Paint by numbers can be more than a casual craft — with the right techniques, your finished piece can look like professional art. From prepping your canvas and choosing the right tools to mastering ...

CONGRATULATIONS on an excellent article on the return of the paint-by-number pictures [“From the ‘50s to Your Wall,” Aug. 31]. I’m contacting you as one of the originators of the paint-by-number wall ...

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.

If you want to make a painting, you can buy a “paint by numbers” kit. A page or canvas has the design drawn on it in numbered irregular shapes that, once filled in with the appropriate colors, ...