"Kids don't lie," many people claim. Perhaps, but in some cases, grown-ups may wish that they did. Kids can be brutally ...

Meghan Dinsmore’s Art III students most recent projects will find their homes across the globe in the hands of Russian schoolchildren. Dinsmore’s students are participating in the Memory Project, a ...

Drawing portraits has a way of humbling even the most confident artists, exposing mistakes faster than almost any other subject. This video takes an honest look at why faces are so difficult to draw ...

A chance radio interview heard one morning this past February on the way to work sparked a Farmingdale art teacher’s imagination and a lesson plan involving 500 elementary school students, 22 local ...

Understanding control and layering is what truly unlocks the potential of soft pastels in portrait drawing, and this artwork demonstrates that principle with clarity. The portrait is developed ...

As the mother of two little girls, Mazzy, 6, and Harlow, 3, Ilana Wiles is no stranger to receiving portraits of herself, drawn in crayon and marker. With Mother's Day approaching, Wiles, who blogs at ...

When Picasso went to a show of children's art, he remarked: "When I was their age I could draw like Raphael; but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them." He wasn't alone in this ambition.