The most realistic pencil drawings, or hyperrealistic pencil drawings, can sometimes be hard to believe. But a skillful use of shading and the representation of extremely fine details in pencil really ...

Abbie Zabar: Ten Year of Flowers is installed in Wave Hill’s Tea Room and features Zabar’s drawings spanning the early 1990s to the early 2000s. Often she visited the museum in the early morning hours ...

The lowly pencil is not an elite or showy artistic medium. It doesn't have oil paint's gravitas, or plaster's endearing gauche. Instead, the pencil is accessible, plebeian and utilitarian. If put in ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Because they are erasable, pencils are often the first tool creative people use when sketching out a ...

Lloyd Rees struggled to become the artist of renown. The spectre of death shook his ambition, in a world already indifferent to his painting. Pencil drawing would divine his psychological road back to ...