I spent 14 days inside a castle, focusing on portrait painting and learning oil techniques from masters. Watch my journey ...

The faint smell of oil paint and turpentine, years and years of it, wafts through this studio. It's a sanctuary – no ringing cellphones – and a throwback, a place to learn an art almost lost to time.

Most people are familiar with terms such as oil painting, acrylic or watercolour. Many people are also highly knowledgeable about artistic movements within painting, such as Impressionism, Cubism or ...

When the artist Helen Frankenthaler, then in her early 20s, met Jackson Pollock, he was building an international reputation with his drip paintings, in which he flung enamel paints—the kinds used for ...

There's a good reason we see more paintings of faces than paintings on faces: The face is not a good canvas. That's what makes these photos by Moscow photographer Alexander Khoklov so impressive: They ...