A room full of children drawing with crayons and markers is a fairly typical sight at The Delaplaine Arts Center in downtown.

Katy Lea,. left, and Caroline Mustard founded Atherton-based art school the Joy of Drawing. Courtesy the Joy of Drawing. For Anne Syer, taking art classes through The Joy of Drawing was a bright spot ...

Decades after life drawing classes were systematically dropped from the curriculum for British art colleges, ending a 200-year tradition of rigorous learning from prints, casts, and life models, the ...

Talita Long, 65, stands on a rectangle pedestal under a spotlight, holding a playground ball on her head while 24 pairs of eyes study, examine and draw the anatomy of her naked body. This is the Life ...