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 ...

Coloured pencils can be blended on the page and their tone can be altered by pressure. Some coloured pencils are water-soluble. Water can be brushed over them, or they can be used on wet paper to ...

Jim Mattson doesn't have sailing experience himself, but wants his paintings to make the viewer feel like they're in the scene. Duluth artist Jim Mattson shows off his favorite color charcoal drawing ...

Over the past decades, he has quietly become one of the most influential artists in New Orleans, helping generations of ...

Merlin James, Elizabeth Magill, Stephen McKenna. Kerlin Gallery, Anne's Lane, South Anne Street, Dublin 2 Until July 6th; kerlin.ie ★★★★★ Despite the implication that all of the summer is ahead, the ...

A charcoal drawing; a surreal depiction of a woman in an insipid form. further, this image seeks to reveal an abortion of a child; symbolised as the egg bursting out from the woman's abdomen. Sade, ...