My college art instructor asked me that question nearly 40 years ago and I remember his words as if they were said yesterday. I was obviously the least “talented” person in his class and he was ...

In the Before Times, I had occasionally gone to life-drawing classes: part social activity, part attempt to improve drawing skills. I would say I sort of enjoyed them; I liked the atmosphere, the ...

Dan Santat and the late Jerry Pinkney draw from life (literally) in their memoirs for young readers. By David Small According to an apocryphal story, the 19th-century French illustrator Gustave Doré ...