If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity. What were the ...

A bubble-gum wrapper crumpled on a sidewalk. Shadows crosshatching a sunlit stair. Sprouting leaves. A gauzy scarf. Such everyday images sparked ideas for many of Ellsworth Kelly’s brightly colored ...

Putting pencil to paper is easy, but drawing a human face from someone else’s memory well enough for others to identify who it might be? That’s not so simple. Charleston police Sgt. Scott Tugya and ...

The Library of Congress recently added more than 200 sketches of the Rodney King police brutality trial to its collection. “We are drawing history in the making,” one sketch artist said. By Derrick ...

In her old job, as the forensic artist for the San Francisco Police Department, Amy Nelder kept stuffed animals in her studio to comfort people who came in to describe murder and assault suspects, so ...

A set of four pencil drawings of a dog by Sir William Orpen has turned up in a house clearance in west Cork and will go under the hammer in Hegarty Fine Art & Antiques Auctioneers in Bandon next ...

Among the stuffed animals, leather Chesterfields and vintage metallic adverts, a rural Cavan auction house recently had at least two art works by luminaries of the 20th century art world for sale. The ...

In the mid-1970s, Art Lien was a recent graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art when he responded to a job opening for a courtroom sketch artist with a Baltimore television station. “I was ...