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Below you’ll find an excerpt from one of our recent live streaming class sessions on Zoom. This one is pulled from a class we taught earlier…

We’re currently in the middle of teaching one of our live streaming drawing classes on Zoom. This one is focuses on drawing the portrait, and…

Those who’ve taken David’s still life painting course at Vitruvian will be familiar with how we normally paint on canvas or wooden panel. It’s a…

Once again, it’s been too long since I published a new time-lapse drawing video on YouTube, so consider this a back payment. This is Cassandra.…

I’ve resisted writing this kind of post for a long time. In my experience, the type of instructional content found in countless books, blogs and…

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I published a new time-lapse video to Youtube a few days ago. For this one, and for the next few portraits I draw, I've decided to recruit family memb…

A few years ago, I broke my wrist on New Year’s Eve. I know what you’re thinking, and no… it wasn’t the result of too…

Before we get started, I have to say that I’m a little late to this party. The “new” pencils I’m about to discuss here have actually…

The Problem Our studio is already full of easels. We have somewhere between 12 and 15 of them depending on whether we’re counting the slightly…

We were pleased to be asked to exhibit some of our class demonstrations and lecture diagrams at the International Museum of Surgical Science in a show…

We were thrilled this weekend to host our first visiting artist workshop at the studio with Vincent Desiderio. Vincent is one of the titans of contemporary…

We’re a little late getting this posted, but we were once again honored to host the incoming class of UIC’s Biomedical Visualization program. It’s a…

We’re half-way through our portrait workshop for January and we’re reminded once again of the advantages that come from focus. Many of our classes meet…

Our online course in portrait drawing has been live for just over 2 months now and we couldn’t be happier with how it’s going. We’ve…

I just finished my first time through. It will take a lot of practice, I think, but I couldn’t be happier with the course. Thank…

Mindy was invited to participate in was the annual fashion show Fleurotica — a gala benefit for the Garfield Park Conservatory held at the Museum of Contemporary…

We do a lot of pencil drawing at the studio and keeping a sharp point is an ongoing problem. A conventional pencil sharpener is adequate…