Five of the eight D.C. high school students participating in Portraits Alive! at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. The students lead visitors on an interactive tour of the museum and perform ...

Usually when drawing a portrait, artists like Alyssa Wentzel can ask their models to move this way or that and capture the shifts in mood in real time. One of Wentzel’s recent portraits, however, was ...

Reka Szabo believes art can be used to make a difference in someone’s life. So, she was excited when the idea to make portraits of children was presented to one of her art classes at school. Szabo is ...

Brighton, N.Y. – They say a picture’s worth a thousand words. For young people halfway around the world, portraits being made right here in our area could be life-changing. For the past five years, ...

James Tindle chose Rudolph Valentino as his inspiration. Valentino was a silent film star known for his seductive stare. Warren Perry, National Portrait Gallery Maryum Abdullah (left) channels famous ...

STEWARTVILLE — "It’s something she’ll be able to keep forever." Arianna Woitas created a portrait of a girl named Maria. An eighth-grader at Stewartville Middle School, Woitas was one of five students ...

Jennifer A. Dorgan, owner of Piece of My Art Studio in Westfield, was looking for a way to give back through art and share that experience with some of her teenage students. "It's important for ...

Ringgold art students are creating custom watercolor pet portraits to raise money for Pet Search. The final portraits will look similar to this watercolor by art teacher Marlynn White. Aiden Fine is ...