John Singer Sargent, “Daisy Fellowes,” c. 1920, charcoal on paper. Private collection, Columbus, Georgia. Photo by Jim Cawthorne. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present a ...

Can you produce attractive charcoal portraits of people in a very short time frame? If not, you may want to take some courses so you can, as people portraits created from charcoal drawings is one of ...

When John Singer Sargent gave up his lucrative oil portraiture at the height of his career to focus on his murals, he still needed a way to keep the lights on. So, he continued his portraiture using ...

“My grandfather would say every face is beautiful. When you see a 100 objects, your mind will tend to find a face among them. We all have something for a human face,” is how 34-year-old Deepak Battal ...

Sargent made his portraits in charcoal—a medium that allowed completion in less than three hours rather than the weeks it took for his full-length oils Roger Catlin - Museums Correspondent John Singer ...