The National Portrait Gallery is exploring a less familiar aspect of the artist’s work through his archive and recently ...

Meghan Dinsmore’s Art III students most recent projects will find their homes across the globe in the hands of Russian schoolchildren. Dinsmore’s students are participating in the Memory Project, a ...

A revelatory show in San Marino puts Don Bachardy’s prolific portrait drawings into a welcome new light. The absorbing survey shows how movies were an influence, but the appeal goes beyond celebrity ...

"I do not draw. I cannot draw. I will never draw," writes Judy Bolton-Fasman. (Getty Images) I do not draw. I cannot draw. I will never draw. My stick figures are abstract abstractions. No neurons ...

Drawing portraits is one of the most frustrating challenges artists face, and struggling with it does not mean you lack talent. In fact, almost everyone is bad at portraits at first, including ...

Got a new Apple Pencil? Once the initial novelty wears off, you might find that it spends most of its time magnetically clipped to the side of your iPad Pro or, worse, stuck in the back of a drawer.

Last year, we heard about an industrial robot that was able to create pencil sketches of human subjects. In that case, it utilized algorithms that identified the boundaries between areas of high and ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The official presidential portraits of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama were unveiled Monday at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Galllery in Washington, D.C., and the images ...

WASHINGTON – The Smithsonian’s presidential portraits are feeling the selfie love. The new paintings of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, attracted big crowds to the National ...