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 ...

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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- When was the last time you used a No.2 pencil? If it's been a while, you may be surprised to find that one area artist uses pencils almost every day. It's her passion to show ...

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Asking scientists what career they would have pursued if they hadn’t gone into science is a crapshoot: It can either stop the conversation cold or uncork misty-eyed reminiscences about the road not ...

While digital art allows almost limitless possibilities, it's can still be hard to replicate the charm and authenticity that can come from using more traditional physical artistic mediums. Sarah ...

Push Nanayakkara and her students have organized an exhibition of colour pencil art depicting the wonders of nature in a vibrant exposition of colour on Sept. 20 and 21 at the Lionel Wendt Memorial ...

It’s always fascinating to see common objects, like pencils, used in unexpected and amazing ways—Jennifer Maestre’s art is one such example. The Massachusetts-based artist creates alien-like sea ...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal's ink and pencil drawing of injured Purkinje neurons, created in 1914. (Courtesy of Instituto Cajal) Are our brains beautiful? Not just figuratively, for what they can do, but ...

In 1894, Santiago Ramón y Cajal stated that the “cerebral cortex is similar to a garden filled with innumerable trees, the pyramidal cells, which can multiply their branches thanks to intelligent ...

Discover a simple way to create a beautiful hairstyle using pastel pencils in this easy step-by-step art tutorial. This video focuses on building soft, natural looking hair texture with smooth ...