When the word portrait is mentioned, many immediately think of oil paintings of faces. The National Portrait Gallery is committed to expanding visitors’ ideas of portraiture through its programs, ...

My favorite project to do with students each year is the surrealist self-portrait. In this unit of study, we practice skills in realistic portraiture — understanding face proportions, drawing facial ...

Drawing portraits has a way of humbling even the most confident artists, exposing mistakes faster than almost any other ...

There are some simple rules and guides for drawing faces that will help to get proportions correct. When drawing a portrait of a person facing forward, these guides can help to make the work accurate: ...

Though they come from the same drawing group and have supported one another's work for many years, the styles of portraiture exhibited by Pamela Bidelman and David Alan Olson could hardly be more ...

Got a new Apple Pencil? Once the initial novelty wears off, you might find that it spends most of its time magnetically clipped to the side of your iPad Pro or, worse, stuck in the back of a drawer.

Portrait of Temple Grandin” by David Lenz, oil on canvas, 2022. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired by the Marc Pachter Commissioning Fund and an anonymous donor. The ...

Fee: $65 + HST per workshop or $120 for both. (Part 1 workshop includes supplies. For part 2 workshop, please bring your own supplies) Workshop Part 1 (Drawing), 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Workshop Part ...