The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present a once-in-a-lifetime assemblage of 50 charcoal drawings by American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent. One of the most celebrated and ...

There is a quiet kind of suspense in watching a drawing get closer to its reference with every pass. In the clip, Harpal works on charcoal portraits, building up outlines and shading on paper. As the ...

At the height of his success as a portraitist, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) astonished the transatlantic art world by suddenly abandoning oil painting in 1907. For the rest of his life, he explored ...

Frank Auerbach has never been coy about his self-imposed mission to search for the new. New ways of drawing and new ways of creating a painting, all the time adhering to Ezra Pound’s idiom of ...

The mastery of materials is fundamental to the artistic process and the career goal of any artist in their chosen medium. Every method requires a different skill set and can evoke different reactions ...

The painters of the so-called School of London remain just about the biggest draw in British art. Not so much a school, more a band of fiercely competitive drinking buddies, these post-war ...

Frank Auerbach, "Head of Leon Kossoff" (1956–57), charcoal and chalk on paper, 29 3/4 x 22 1/8 inches, Private Collection (© The artist, courtesy Frankie Rossi Art Projects, London) LONDON — A miasma ...

Sligo artist Michael Wann has been shortlisted for the AIB Portrait Prize along with 25 other artists from across the country with his work Camille, a piece in charcoal on paper. Also shortlisted is ...

The internet loves a good optical illusion, and the latest mind-blowing images are from Nigerian artist Chiamonwu Joy, whose charcoal drawings have caused jaws to drop all around the world. Joy, who ...