In recent years, the artist Rick Shaefer has worked on a monumental scale, drawing in charcoal to create life-sized illusions and record epic events. His first big image was of the trunk of an oak ...

Shaefer is perhaps best known for his dramatic life-size charcoal drawings on vellum of American bison and Indian rhinoceros, as well as his thought-provoking works focusing on the felled limbs of ...