From early cave painters to Pablo Picasso to Roberto Longo, artists have long loved the expressive potential of a soft charcoal pencil or crayon. Each sweep of charcoal offers intense black color and ...

Robert Gorder doesn’t mind getting his hands dirty for the sake of art. The Baraboo man brings charcoal images to life through two businesses: Rethought Drawings and Charcoal Expressions. Gorder ...

Over the past decades, he has quietly become one of the most influential artists in New Orleans, helping generations of ...

Artist Liz Atkin took to the London Underground on World Mental Health Day on Wednesday to give away her charcoal drawings for free and raise awareness of dermatillomania. The artist and mental health ...

Love charcoal but hate the mess? Pick up a charcoal pencil, which is composed of compressed charcoal inside a protective layer, typically wood. Suitable for drawing, sketching, or smudging, a charcoal ...

If you think abstract and realistic artists regard each other as brothers under the skin, just different folks with different brush strokes, think again. Better yet, visit the Charcoal Club’s weekly ...

Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, the mob turncoat who brought down “Dapper Don” John Gotti, has developed a different talent in prison — doodling. And his charcoal sketches were selling for $250 ...

Chefs, it turns out, are not so different from you and me. When it comes to summer entertaining, their thoughts turn to outdoor grilling-simple, tasty and, given a modest amount of forethought, ...

What is charcoal made of? Charcoal is one of the oldest art materials! Drawings using charcoal have been found in caves. Charcoal is made from burning wood, usually willow. The wood is not completely ...

Poet doesn’t consider himself an artist, he just likes to doodle Indian lyricist-poet Gulzar, who has published his charcoal sketches, says he doesn’t consider himself as an artist. “These sketches ...