"10... 9... 8...," he chanted while pacing the room. I drug my graphite across the page in a panic.  "7... 6... 5..."  It was the 10-second gesture drawing exercise in my figure drawing class. The model held a complicated pose for 10 seconds, then paused for a few to take the next position, and the countdown ... Read More »

It is often that artists are faced with the challenge of beginning. There you sit, equipped with all of the right supplies, the correct lighting, the perfect posture to start that project, and you’ve got nothing. Zip. No idea where to go next.
As with many other feats of creativity, those first words on the ... Read More »