When it comes to charcoal paper, what you seek is a mid-weight, slightly textured paper that will not only hold up under thicker drawing pigments but also allow the material itself to truly shine.

After sketching the portraits with charcoal, the artist textures the paper with scalpel blades, sharp cut erasers and sandpaper. The end result is a hyper-realistic image which can easily be ...

Rison artist Crystal Jennings, a Pine Bluff native represented by M2 Gallery in Little Rock, has a work in the Arkansas Arts Council's current "Small Works on Paper" exhibit.

When it comes to charcoal paper, what you seek is a mid-weight, slightly textured paper that will not only hold up under thicker drawing pigments but also allow the material itself to truly shine.