To find his subject, artist Phil Schorn looks for leaves. The more colorful and intricate-looking they are, the better. That’s because, for Schorn, art is in the details. His colored pencil drawings ...

One artist in Philadelphia is using an unusual canvas. Nate Walker turns bollards — those short, streetside poles meant to keep cars from diving up sidewalks — into something we are all familiar with: ...

Sharon Cromer's "Mountain Men Crossing a Stream" is the first oil painting she's done in eight years. She's working in colored pencil medium now. But those five riders and horses have an air of being.

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 ...