DANBURY – While in college, Bryan Lee Madden of Danbury taught himself how to create intricate and detailed portraits using an Etch A Sketch, a toy that debuted in 1960 that has fascinated millions.

The Peabody Essex Museum has scheduled an al fresco introduction to watercolor sketching class this month as part of its Celebrate Making History: 200 Years of American Art from the Pennsylvania ...

Museum’s regular hours: noon-4 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. An avid urban sketcher, Pete Scully draws the everyday world around him — buildings old and new, streets, ...

Tony Bennett was known to sketch people and places, like this charcoal drawing of Central Park. Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco, but his artist’s eye loved the Big Apple. The ...

Join me for a relaxing unboxing and first impressions of Derwent’s Line and Wash Paint Set. I’ll swatch each color and do a gentle sketch to test how the watercolors flow and pair with ink. Perfect if ...

Winslow Homer, “Hudson River, Logging,” 1891-1892. Watercolor over graphite on wove paper sheet. (National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection) Review by Angelica Hankins A new show of landscapes ...

Within the studio : drawing pedagogy, European-Soviet transnationalism, and academic realism -- Going into life : the anti-academic impulse, social investigation, and the peasant portrait -- A ...