Life Drawing and Life

Sometimes I use the Three Pose Approach in figure drawing sessions. In it, you apply three very diverse drawing strategies that may allow you to relate to the pose and ‘get’ the pose onto the page. The intention is to keep ‘reframing’ the drawing experience and achieve fresh insights. The three actual approaches may vary. […]

7 Kinds of Self-Portraits

William Merritt Chase

They look back at us. They look back with eyes that are wary, bold, wondering, assertive, doubting. Artists paint and draw the face and eyes they see in the mirror, but what they seek to show, is a hidden mind looking back out through those eyes. Look to the Italian for the self-portrait, which is l’autoritratto.’ […]