Instead, the pencil is accessible, plebeian and utilitarian. If put in the right hands, it can also produce incredible works of art. Pencils are often relegated to sketching and drafting.

Many of the artist’s 40 pen, quill and pencil-on-watercolor-paper sketches were displayed prominently in 1981 as Los Angeles celebrated its bicentennial. Twenty-seven of the drawings were ...

Here, young women, including Khushi, congregate for a pencil drawing class. Many of these women have been directed here by mental health experts, seeking an avenue to alleviate their isolation ...

The legacy of that experience is still evident today, as Vandenborre runs The Red Pencil Humanitarian ... helps people dealing with trauma heal and grow through the creative process of creating art ...

The sketch is the work of 63-year-old painter and ... a prominent name on the Syrian art scene. "Right now we're in the heart of the storm, so it's very hard for one to see the true cultural ...