Starting your figure drawing with basic shapes makes it easier to draw more sophisticated lines on top. Here, I've drawn the ...

A 5-inch chalk sketch of a man’s right foot could fetch at least $2 million after Christie’s auction house linked it to Michelangelo’s ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. The tiny drawing of the bare foot ...

For painters in particular, it’s a means of evolving ideas long before brush touches canvas; and, in some cases, like Lucian Freud’s, it’s an abiding obsession. The artist (1922-2011) was “almost ...

A Rembrandt drawing of a young lion has become artist’s most valuable work on paper to sell at auction after it realized a breathtaking $18 million at Sotheby’s New York on February 4. The work, Young ...

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, "Belphagore" (1734), brush and black ink, gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on blue paper; 12 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (image via public domain, all images courtesy Getty ...

This drawing reportedly sets the record for the most spent at auction for a piece of Michelangelo artwork Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in ...

Cecily Brown, “Untitled (Sweetie)” (c. 2000), watercolor and gouache on paper, 14 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches (courtesy of the artist, photo by Genevieve Hanson) The erotic relationship between looking and ...

Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle Museum of Art after a monumental feat in networking and logistics by the ...

The most exciting, impactful, and innovative science happens when experts across different fields collaborate. This post describes one collaboration that is changing how we think about ...