Portrait drawing is more than copying a face, it is learning how to capture structure, personality, and expression in a way ...

Portrait drawing is one of the most rewarding ways to improve your art skills, because it trains your eye to understand ...

Under soft gallery lights, faces look back at you from the walls of the Omani Society for Fine Arts. Some are familiar, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Feb. 13 (UPI) --The Obamas unveiled their official portraits Monday in Washington, D.C., and as with any artistic endeavor that bucks tradition -- especially one so austere as the U.S. presidency -- ...

More than a century ago, critic Matthew Arnold predicted that poetry of the future would synthesize rather than discover, and this certainly proved true in the realm of visual art, where it has become ...