John Hutton starts every White House portrait with an egg-shaped frame. He adds a nose, mouth, eyes, and eyebrows, then outlines the face, guided by a series of horizontal and vertical lines through ...

That child’s drawing of a house, tree, or person may represent more than an element of the refrigerator-as-art-gallery. It may predict a child’s intelligence later in life. A child’s intelligence at ...

Learn brush care, strokes, and patterns with James A. Schwalbach's guided art lesson. Discover the magic of brushwork with James A. Schwalbach. Learn how to care for your brush, experiment with ...

I never fail to admire and compliment the creators of beautiful and massive ‘Kolams' that are systematically drawn at the entrance of houses with great fervour, particularly during the season of ...

John Obringer uses an Etch A Sketch to draw Philly sports logos, the LOVE sign and the Philly skyline. Others are buying his artwork.

Pattern is a key part of organising and decorating design. In expressive art, pattern can be used to add variety to a composition, to reflect patterns used in the real world, or to help create a sense ...

Artists diagnosed with autism created the paintings, drawings and collages in this gallery. These pictures, and many more, are published in Jill Mullin’s new book Drawing Autism. “While some of the ...

The earliest human drawing, dating back to the Stone Age, has been found in a cave in South Africa. It is a cross-hatched pattern and was drawn with a red ochre crayon. A team of scientists from ...