The Basics

Abstract Drawing and Painting is often mocked by those who never paint or draw as the kind of thing that toddlers produce at play school. Like the Emperors Clothes, the abstract painting is a trick ...

The landscape drawing or painting is a picture conceived with the intention of conveying a particular natural scene: for example a mountain as with the 'impressionist' painter Paul Cézanne’s famous ...

Life Drawing is the act of drawing the nude 'life-model', a real person posing naked (usually, but not necessarily) for the artist, and underpins the representation of all human figures in drawing ...

Portraiture is a genre of drawing and painting that arose principally out of the vanity of the higher classes. Having a portrait painted was a sign that someone had wealth, power and (depending on ...