From early cave painters to Pablo Picasso to Roberto Longo, artists have long loved the expressive potential of a soft charcoal pencil or crayon. Each sweep of charcoal offers intense black color and ...

Considering the selection of sketches themselves, the curators of “Sketch, Shade, Smudge” provided a brilliant array of ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A French art expert believes a charcoal drawing kept in a collection for more than 150 years may be a preparatory sketch made by Leonardo da Vinci of the Mona Lisa. The ...

You have got a lot of choices when it comes to drawing tools. Pencils are the most popular, simply because they are so ever-present. But the more you get into drawing, the more you’ll want to ...

The Carolina Artists guild will be offering a charcoal display, showing the use of light form, at the monthly meeting on May 15 at St. John’s Lutheran Church (Faith Center 100 North Jackson St.