Josh Hernandez operates under the handle mad.charcoal on TikTok. He’s a charcoal artist with a focus in portraiture and does renderings of famous figures like Abraham Lincoln, Chadwick Boseman and ...

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 ...

From a young age, Bronwyn Dierssen had a knack for creating. “When I was a kid, I was a total art nerd,” she said. “I could spend my whole weekend doing it.” As an adult, dividing her time between ...

A local artist will display her fine art charcoal portraiture at the Aiken Center for the Arts beginning Thursday, June 19. The works of Diana Kirkpatrick, a fine artist specializing in sanded ...

PHILADELPHIA -- When is the last time you used a No.2 pencil? If it's been a while, you may be surprised to find that one area artist uses pencils almost every day. And it's her passion to show the ...

GAYLORD — Watercolor painter Stephanie LaFramboise began sketching in charcoal last year because "it's a little more forgiving compared to watercolor," but judging by the detail put into her charcoal ...

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 ...

RISON -- Artist Crystal Jennings often has company in the sunroom studio of her home in Cleveland County. While she's working away on one of her large, hyper-realistic charcoal drawings in one corner, ...

Robert Longo, "Untitled (American Eagle)" (2017) charcoal on mounted paper, 70 1/16 × 96 inches (Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection) On view now at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Robert ...

Learn how to make your own charcoal drawing sticks for art charcoal sticks to create works of art using a new paint can, a campfire, and some small sticks. To make your own charcoal drawing sticks the ...