Later this month, a dozen or so amateur artists will gather to learn something new and technical, trade tips and generally support each other in their love of colored pencils. It's an art form that's ...

Colored pencils can be used to create works of art with depth and incredible color, even though the humble artist’s tools aren’t always considered by artists. “Colored pencil is the only transparent ...

Sharon Cromer's "Mountain Men Crossing a Stream" is the first oil painting she's done in eight years. She's working in colored pencil medium now. But those five riders and horses have an air of being.

Along Britain’s sea coasts, an iconic summertime scene unfolds in outdoor pools known as lidos, where the swimming area is ...

Are you curious about colored pencils as a medium? Has your child graduated from crayons and looking for something a little more grown-up to color with? Then a set of good-quality colored pencils is a ...

All summer at the Strathmore Mansion in North Bethesda, you may find gallery-goers huddled around a small, photorealistic depiction of a fruit in a plastic bag. “Hold on,” one of them may whisper, “is ...

A group of artists wants to paint the world in colored pencil, and an inaugural exhibit opening Saturday will illuminate their pastime. The Colored Pencil Society of America’s Myrtle Beach chapter ...