He was famous by then for his oil portraits of rich people ... crisply done in thick charcoal with a minimalist background, sometimes heavy, vertical lines, sometimes next-to-nothing.

Matt Gianesses is a Valley Stream native and special education teacher whose hobby of drawing charcoal portraits of athletes is getting noticed by fans of his favorite team, the Jets. Gianesses ...

Sargent made his portraits in charcoal—a medium that allowed completion ... particularly in the vividly drawn backgrounds that make them a harbinger of more expressive things to come.

A Scottish artist has produced an astonishingly lifelike collection of portraits ... it's like having a black key to my own time machine. I reckon this must make me a charcoal obsessive compulsive ...