The only guests to appear in artist Sharon Hester’s dining room are a smidge on the wild side. The table is set with rows of colored and graphite pencils and sheets of paper — a makeshift studio space ...

Artist and designer Dave Rittinger wants to create a public art piece using colored pencils as branches. If his idea gets produced in real life, we can only hope it's made in multiples. Click through ...

Remember the joy of getting a fresh new pack of colored pencils when you were a kid? The artistic possibilities! You were going to make masterpieces with those things, weren’t you? Unfortunately, ...

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 ...