Turning a favorite photo into a painted portrait sounds exciting, but creating one from scratch can be hard when you are new ...

Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great ...

How former presidents, first ladies and billionaires choose the artists who paint their portraits—and what you can learn from them. An exhibition of portraits by Y.Z. Kami. Courtesy of the artist and ...

Did you ever mix dirt and water when you were playing outside? You made a paint. Did you draw shapes on the ground with your muddy hands? You made a painting. Long ago, artists made their own paints ...