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Custom Drawing Sessions
Join Drawing New York for our first Selfless Portrait™ Night. Attendees will pose for each other throughout the night in 20-minute poses. 25% of the evening’s proceeds will be donated to Smile Train, a charity that Drawing New York donates to regularly.
Drawing America ARTicles
Are patrons of artists a thing of the past? When you hear “patron” you are likely thinking of someone who’s rich and buys art. That’s great! But there are other ways to be a patron to the artist in your life. Read on to learn 7 simple ways…
We found this article on The New York Times website about Leonardo’s famous drawings of strange faces. That also led us to this amazing looking show of his work at The Teylers Museum in Haarlem in The Netherlands.
Have you ever played the part of an “undercover artist” inconspicuously using the public as your art models? Anybody can do it, but do you dare?
Drawing Exhibitions
While the painting show, Delacroix at the Metropolitan Museum is getting a lot of press, we highly recommend Devotion to Drawing — Delacroix Drawings, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from July 17th through November 12, 2018.
Jacopo Tintoretto (1518–1594) was among the most distinctive artists of the Italian Renaissance, but his drawings have never received the attention they deserve and remain unfamiliar even to many scholars.