WASHINGTON — They arrive at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., with one mission. “Where are the Obamas?” one of the ladies asks. The information desk attendant directs ...

Meghan Dinsmore’s Art III students most recent projects will find their homes across the globe in the hands of Russian schoolchildren. Dinsmore’s students are participating in the Memory Project, a ...

A revelatory show in San Marino puts Don Bachardy’s prolific portrait drawings into a welcome new light. The absorbing survey shows how movies were an influence, but the appeal goes beyond celebrity ...

Giant portraits of Aboriginal people painted on buildings and canvases across the world are drawing attention to Indigenous issues says former graffiti artist, turned portrait artist, Matt Adnate. Mr ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The official presidential portraits of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama were unveiled Monday at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Galllery in Washington, D.C., and the images ...

"I do not draw. I cannot draw. I will never draw," writes Judy Bolton-Fasman. (Getty Images) I do not draw. I cannot draw. I will never draw. My stick figures are abstract abstractions. No neurons ...

Although the market for hand-drawn portraits largely collapsed following the invention of photography, there’s something magical about watching an artist create a lifelike image using nothing but a ...

Got a new Apple Pencil? Once the initial novelty wears off, you might find that it spends most of its time magnetically clipped to the side of your iPad Pro or, worse, stuck in the back of a drawer.