John Hutton starts every White House portrait with an egg-shaped frame. He adds a nose, mouth, eyes, and eyebrows, then outlines the face, guided by a series of horizontal and vertical lines through ...

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It wasn’t until last summer when I finally created a fridge-worthy painting. As a child, I’d taken art classes, my creations later shoved into the back of my shame-drawer. Most of my art teachers (God ...

Robin Torres has always believed in the healing power of art, but it took a pandemic for her to realize how cathartic a simple drawing lesson could be for children — and quite a few adults — forced to ...

John Hutton, an art history professor from North Carolina, has developed a four-step technique for drawing presidential portraits. This method, detailed in his book, uses an egg-shaped frame and is ...

For Jack Tamburri DRA ’13, artistic endeavors were often a pursuit of experimentation. After graduating from the University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature, Tamburri took ...