ST. PAUL, Minn. – As we emerge from a winter that squatted on our psyches, we all need places to draw resolve. Greg Lecker found his getaway -- sketchpad in hand -- at Como Park's Marjorie McNeely Conservatory. "It's a cheap vacation to a warm place," he ...

Pencils and paintbrushes rise when Kelly removes her robe and perches on a wooden platform one recent Sunday morning. Each artist in the small group at the Arts & Design Society of Fort Walton Beach interprets the lines of Kelly’s figure in ways distinct ...

“They need something from you. A type of pose to draw . . . it’s not about you anymore.” This was instructor Megan Williams’ way of calming my nerves before posing naked in front of nine strangers for a life drawing class at the Toronto School of Art.

David Hockney “Self Portrait” (1954), collage on newsprint, 16 1⁄2 x 11 3⁄4 inches (© David Hockney, photo by Richard Schmidt; Bradford Museums & Galleries, Bradford, UK, all images courtesy National Portrait Gallery, London) LONDON — It’s not ...