Maria Oliva Tyra wanted to be an artist since she was 3 years old. As she got older, she enjoyed working in so many different media that choosing one was a challenge. Her elaborate, detailed ...

They say patience is a virtue, but for some artists it’s a necessity. Emi Nakajima’s detailed ink drawings of famous architectural sites, which recently appeared on My Modern Met, typically take about ...

LAKE STEVENS — A Bic pen and a prison sentence changed his life. What’s up with that? Gabriel Herrera, 40, is trying to make a name for himself as an artist using cheap blue pens. He started drawing ...

Sonoma artist Barbara White Perry is known for her detailed ink drawings of historic Valley of the Moon locales and her vivid oil paintings inspired by local landscapes. Lately, though, her attention ...

It might well be said that Rolf Essig’s artwork represents where art meets science. While the two disciplines are quite distinct and often at odds with one another, it’s clear from Essig’s work that ...

This year's election produced a Tory government making cuts of up to 40%. So naturally MPs spent £17,000 (plus travel expenses) getting an artist to draw it. The result, The Government Stable by ...

Girolamo Mazzola, called Parmigianino, “Head of a Young Man” (ca.1539-40) (all images courtesy the J. Paul Getty Trust) The Getty Museum has announced a major acquisition of master works that will ...

For the past two years, artist Phil Thompson of Cape Horn Illustration has been creating pen and ink drawings of Chicago's homes and residential buildings. Inspired by the patterns and themes of the ...

With just a Rotring Isograph pen on arches paper, artist Mark Lascelles Thornton completed this scrupulously detailed architectural drawing project titled "The Happiness Machine". Each sheet ...

… can our dreamsever blur the intransigent lines which drawthe shape that shuts us in?— Sylvia Plath, "Tale of a Tub" (1956) The newest book of Sylvia Plath's work showcases not her poetry, but her ...