Colored pencils can be used to create works of art with depth and incredible color, even though the humble artist’s tools aren’t always considered by artists. “Colored pencil is the only transparent ...

All summer at the Strathmore Mansion in North Bethesda, you may find gallery-goers huddled around a small, photorealistic depiction of a fruit in a plastic bag. “Hold on,” one of them may whisper, “is ...

Federico Uribe’s work proves that you can make art out of just about anything. Shoelaces. Neckties. Colored pencils. Coins. And bullet shells. That’s what the motherly tiger cuddling a panda cub in ...

Long before she discovered colored pencils, Melissa Nece was an artist working in oils, acrylics, pastels and watercolors. But her artistic life changed dramatically in 1990 when she got a gift ...