The most realistic pencil drawings, or hyperrealistic pencil drawings, can sometimes be hard to believe. But a skillful use of shading and the representation of extremely fine details in pencil really ...

Not everyone can take a blank sheet of paper and turn it into a stunningly realistic animal portrait. It takes an artist with a sharp eye for detail and the skill to capture the lifelike essence of ...

In 2008, Corrina Thurston got a migraine that never stopped. Loud sounds and bright lights hurt her head. She didn’t sleep, and she could barely walk. Confined to a dark room, she had to drop out of ...

The only guests to appear in artist Sharon Hester’s dining room are a smidge on the wild side. The table is set with rows of colored and graphite pencils and sheets of paper — a makeshift studio space ...

₍^. .^₎⟆ & /|\ ^._.^ /|\ celebrates stigmatized animals in a similar spirit as Kenton gallery Carnation Contemporary’s recent ...

I’ll never forget an object I saw in the Picasso Museum in Barcelona 25 years ago: Picasso’s first-grade reader. He’d filled the margins with pencil drawings: animals, birds, people. Next to the book ...

Cherie Vergos, a recent Saratoga Springs, N.Y., transplant, has an eye for animals. She has started creating artistic portraits of animal heads with Personalized Pets. Eventually Vergos wants to go ...

The artist’s striking tell-tale raven emerges from the whittled, rectangular base of the flat carpenter’s pencil. Standing tall and erect on the white painted stub, Diem has carved the raven in a ...