Robert Gorder doesn’t mind getting his hands dirty for the sake of art. The Baraboo man brings charcoal images to life through two businesses: Rethought Drawings and Charcoal Expressions. Gorder ...

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

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 ...

Love charcoal but hate the mess? Pick up a charcoal pencil, which is composed of compressed charcoal inside a protective layer, typically wood. Suitable for drawing, sketching, or smudging, a charcoal ...

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 ...

Art therapist Katie Croft, a North Carolina-based multi-disciplinary artist and educator, will open a sculpture and large-scale charcoal-drawing exhibit Friday evening at the Tointon Gallery, 651 10th ...

Popular charcoal artist, Evans Owusu, also known as Zamo Art, has refuted claims that artists only needed paper, paint and a pencil to produce an artwork. According to him, one of the major challenges ...

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 ...

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 ...