There is a quiet kind of suspense in watching a drawing get closer to its reference with every pass. In the clip, Harpal works on charcoal portraits, building up outlines and shading on paper. As the ...

At the height of his success as a portraitist, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) astonished the transatlantic art world by suddenly abandoning oil painting in 1907. For the rest of his life, he explored ...

Frank Auerbach has never been coy about his self-imposed mission to search for the new. New ways of drawing and new ways of creating a painting, all the time adhering to Ezra Pound’s idiom of ...

Stare into the detailed eyes of one of artist Stefan Cummings’ charcoal portraits and you’ll find yourself staring at not just a portrait but a personality. “I’ve done really specific portraiture,” ...

The G20 Summit is an annual summit between the world’s 20 most powerful countries to discuss global economic and financial issues. At this year’s G20 Summit, something unique happened – Artist Juheb ...

Young students learn charcoal art from Han Cuiqiong at her workshop in Haikou, Hainan province. Photos by Huang Yiming / China Daily Making traditional portraits is not only a family business, it ...

For this series of large-scale charcoal portraits made between 1956 and 1962, the German-British painter Frank Auerbach drew his sitters over and over again, erasing the image after each session so ...

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At the height of his success as a portraitist, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) astonished the transatlantic art world by suddenly abandoning oil painting in 1907. For the rest of his life, he explored ...

At the height of his success as a portraitist, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) astonished the transatlantic art world by suddenly abandoning oil painting in 1907. For the rest of his life, he explored ...