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 ...

If you think abstract and realistic artists regard each other as brothers under the skin, just different folks with different brush strokes, think again. Better yet, visit the Charcoal Club’s weekly ...

Artifacts unearthed in Pompeii have offered insight into how citizens of the ancient Roman city lived, cooked, ran for office, and made cement. But what of its youngest residents? Well, recent ...

Indonesian artist Veri Apriyatno explores the human form and emotion through his hyper-realistic pencil drawings. This series ...

Walk into Suite 205 of Davenport's Bucktown Center for the Arts, and you'll see affixed to the four walls, all around you, dozens of charcoal sketches of the naked female form, known as life drawings.

Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, the mob turncoat who brought down “Dapper Don” John Gotti, has developed a different talent in prison — doodling. And his charcoal sketches were selling for $250 ...