MinnPost’s reporting is free every single day, but it isn’t free to produce. Join 4,800 members with a donation right now. The core takeaway from “Drawing Lessons” is anyone can draw. Set during the ...

Drawing relies on the simplest of means: a surface and a mark. It is an immediate activity. Marks can be made without elaborate preparation or equipment. Charcoal and cotton rag paper, a stick and ...

My college art instructor asked me that question nearly 40 years ago and I remember his words as if they were said yesterday. I was obviously the least “talented” person in his class and he was ...

Most artists have to wait tables at some point in their careers in order to pay the bills. College students learn similar lessons through years of scrounging up couch-change for books and stretching ...