Locust Street Art has come up with a fun, artistic, and inventive idea for an upcoming fundraiser. Portrait-a-thon: A Live Portrait Drawing Rally involves artists creating live portraiture works of ...

For painters in particular, it’s a means of evolving ideas long before brush touches canvas; and, in some cases, like Lucian Freud’s, it’s an abiding obsession. The artist (1922-2011) was “almost ...

Exasperated young artists yearning to hit back at their ignorant parents could learn a trick from Joan Miró. Between 1925 and 1927, the Catalan native took a portrait of his mother, Dolors Ferrà i ...

“Art is my life.” That’s how artist Zulf describes his relationship with art. The London-based artist creates masterpieces on dark paper using only pastel pencils and charcoal. He plays around with ...

Some exhibitions make you feel inspired, others perplexed. Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting at the National Portrait Gallery left me feeling battered and bruised – as if I’d been hit by a wrecking ...

One of Britain’s foremost portrait painters is the subject of a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, opening tomorrow. But Lucian Freud: Drawing Into Painting shows a new side to the ...

Jonathan Yeo’s official portrait of King Charles III is still drawing a reaction nearly two weeks after it was first unveiled, but Yeo has won the approval of the person who matters most: the painting ...

Betsy Cooper spent more than 30 years as a forensic artist in San Antonio, drawing criminals from eyewitness accounts and bringing back the dead from skeletal remains. Her facial reconstruction work ...

Freud was a master painter, but his drawings ranged from ordinary to awful. Guess which aspect of his work this show focuses on? If painting is a fast car, drawing is more like taking the bus. At ...