"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 is one of the most frustrating challenges artists face, and struggling with it does not mean you lack talent. In fact, almost everyone is bad at portraits at first, including ...

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.