Too brief to get anything down but a scribble, the roughest mass of a body in space. Then came the longer poses. This is when you started to take in the person—the real person, the real body. Like ...

Right before Laura Hoptman, the curator of painting and sculpture at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, was named director of SoHo’s Drawing Center, she had an amusing phone call with her colleague ...

At 99 years old, Nita Draut is proving it’s never too late to discover a passion.

Shelter in place was tough for my family. It didn't start out so badly, but soon enough we went from an abundance of positivity to almost none at all. After the novelty wore off, distance learning ...

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Can art be created by being unmade? That’s the question that led American Pop Artist Robert Rauschenberg to create one of his best-known and most controversial works, Erased de Kooning Drawing ...

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, "Belphagore" (1734), brush and black ink, gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on blue paper; 12 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (image via public domain, all images courtesy Getty ...

Gesture drawing is a powerful warm-up that helps artists capture movement, proportion, and energy before focusing on details. Short, timed poses encourage whole-picture thinking and fluid mark-making.