The lowly pencil is not an elite or showy artistic medium. It doesn't have oil paint's gravitas, or plaster's endearing gauche. Instead, the pencil is accessible, plebeian and utilitarian. If put in ...

With their emotion and precise detail, these images look like the work of a gifted photographer. But in fact they are all hyper-realistic paintings and drawings created by Scottish artist Paul Cadden.

'The Watering Place': Gainsborough's trees are ideals of foliage, vast greenish ink spatters against the sky The half-dozen landscape paintings, ranging in date from the 1740s to the 1780s, are ...