At Ars Electronica’s Human Factor: Endless Prototyping, artist Patrick Tresset has installed three robots, each of which draw the portrait of a person seated across from them. Tresset, who has been ...

Alida Pepper was staring down depression. Stuck in her apartment in San Francisco, she worried that all the plans she’d made were about to unravel. For months, Pepper, a full-time life drawing model, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...