A local artist will display her fine art charcoal portraiture at the Aiken Center for the Arts beginning Thursday, June 19.

Charcoal is elemental, the debris of animal and vegetable substances ... and its use has been confirmed in prehistoric cave drawings from Altamira and Niaux. Printmaking lecturer Jacob Samuel ...

"Her ability to do charcoal drawings is utterly remarkable," Star ... but I still have the need to do something creatively and help those animals over there. That will not change.” ...

Visual artist Heine, 30, draws the pieces by hand and focuses on making the animals and people ... Article continues below The sketches are drawn using a mixture of charcoal sticks and graphite ...

The team first found the charcoal-based drawings in February 2020. The Bison Cave is named after the Paleolithic drawings of animals on its main gallery walls. It is considered one of the best ...

Radiocarbon dates from Coliboaia Cave in Romania show that animal images drawn on ... Clottes removed a tiny amount of charcoal from one of the drawings, as well as a piece of charcoal he found ...

Based on the charcoal sketches’ simplicity and naive finesse ... The stick figures in the sketch resemble cephalopods, a class of animal that includes octopuses and squids.

Artifacts unearthed in Pompeii have offered insight into how citizens of the ancient Roman city lived, cooked, ran for office, and made cement. But what of its youngest residents? Well, recent ...