A montage of women’s heads by Frank Frazetta, reveals the pattern of his idealized type. They all tend to have long hair, bare shoulders, a ...

Here's a preliminary sketch by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (1839-1892) of a warrior leaping from a rooftop. He used exploratory colored lines ju...

Many artists who got their start in the 1930s and ‘40s remember the chisel pencil technique of Ernest Watson. Watson’s drawing methods were ...

Cast shadows can help show the surface changes in a landscape. In this small plein-air sketch, the tree shadows define the curve of the hill...

In November of 1980, I did this plein-air gouache painting of the Landmark Hotel in Las Vegas. At the time, I never would have guessed that ...

German troops are billeted in a French chateau during the Franco-Prussian war in this scene by Anton von Werner (1843-1915). Rather than loo...

Last night plein-air painter Marc Hanson began a project of painting a month of nocturnes. His goal is to paint two paintings from observati...

Until the 1880s, pictures in magazines had to be reproduced by means of carved wooden blocks. The best kind of wood was an end-grain boxwo...

This is the last week of the Dinotopia exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach Florida. This coming Sunday, September 5 is...

Flesk Publishing has just brought out a new book on the rough drawings and unfinished works of comic artist Al Williamson (1931-2010). The 6...