Writing and drawing are two activities that can help promote literacy in young learners. When children draw pictures and write letters, they are also expressing their thoughts and ideas. Encouraging ...

Comic books, graphic novels, sequential art narratives—call them what you want, but the words-and-pictures genre is here to stay. Slowly but surely, graphic novels are becoming more widely accepted as ...

Michael Gough, like many other creative types, was one of those schoolkids who couldn't stop doodling. "I've been in trouble all my life because I'm actually a compulsive drawer," says Gough, head of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whiteboards, a modern solution to the age-old chalk dust problem, come in many different materials, including porcelain, painted ...

A whole history of art history writing could profitably be written concerning the changing uses of illustrations. When an art writer does not use illustrations, as happened in Clement Greenberg’s The ...

Three months before the Morgan Library opened its doors to the public, in 1928, Rick Barton—a remarkable draftsman who died in obscurity in 1992—was born a few blocks away. Now, thanks to the ...

The Drawing Matter Trust is pleased to announce the return of the Drawing Matter Writing Prize. The competition invites participants to carefully look at drawings and to consider what they reveal ...