"Pigs" by Teresa Altemeyer. The northside Indianapolis artist specializes in portraits, and will be the featured artist at the Southside Art League in July. Submitted photo. The secret is in the eyes.

Take one look at Tori Nelson’s Instagram page, and one thing is abundantly clear: Her work is special. The St. Louis-based artist paints custom watercolor portraits for everything under the sun, ...

The mastery of materials is fundamental to the artistic process and the career goal of any artist in their chosen medium. Every method requires a different skill set and can evoke different reactions ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - While cleaning out her mother's home after she died in 2013, Tara Moorman opened an old trunk to find a collection of family photos dating to the late 1800s. Moorman, a watercolor ...

Before photography was around to detail the natural world, there were watercolor paintings. A recently launched database has digitized 80,000 (and counting) works painted during the medium’s heyday, ...

Barbara Prey's watercolor is a depiction of MASS MoCA's newest wing, which once served as a textile mill. Barbara Prey Studio Watercolors are among the least forgiving mediums for artists to work with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When was the last time you did a watercolor painting? For many of us, it's probably been decades since we picked up the paint ...

She started in secret. And it took seven years to finish. Mary Whyte crisscrossed the United States in search of veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. The artist had in mind something big. “I will go to ...

John Singer Sargent paints his sister Emily (center) with their nieces in the Alps in his 1911 watercolor "Simplon Pass: The Lesson." (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Maybe it was a midlife ...

Photoshop CS6 tutorial showing how to quickly transform a photo into a watercolor, tie-dyed-style painting.