Instructor Darren Kerr talks to Sabina Grogan about the proportions of the human face during a life drawing class at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On a recent evening ...

David Hockney is one of the world’s most famous living artists. Born in England in 1937 and renowned almost as much for his embrace of technology as for his inventive use of color and bold rendering ...

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David Hockney is "justifiably proud of his drawing skills", said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Like most artists of his generation, he underwent "years of enforced practice" drawing nude models, a ...

Within the studio : drawing pedagogy, European-Soviet transnationalism, and academic realism -- Going into life : the anti-academic impulse, social investigation, and the peasant portrait -- A ...