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As many visitors have already discovered, the American Artist online presence is currently transitioning to a new format. The new American Artist community site is already home to the American Artist forums, and fresh online editorial content is being shifted there as well. The content previously posted here can now be found in a collection of newly created blogs, brought to you by the editors of the American Artist family of publications.

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Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings From the Biblioteca Reale in Turin

The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco’s Legion of Honor will host this exhibition of work by master artist Leonardo da Vinci.

Drawings for Writings

Mark Leithauser collaborated with his brother, the poet Brad Leithauser, on a series of books that expanded his imaginative powers, leading him to consider a multitude of new subjects.

Drawing Basics: The Cube

Learn to draw the cube and you have a good introduction to basic perspective and to one of the geometric building blocks of all objects—including the human figure.

Fine Art or Illustration?

Whether creating fine art or illustration, for Connecticut artist Bernie Fuchs—who boasts a long and successful career as an illustrator—it’s all the same. Either way, “I’m making a picture,” he explains.

Drawing Critique: “Listening”

Sometimes, in order to capture the emotion or mood of a subject, one must sacrifice anatomical detail. 

The Self in Contemporary Self-Portraits

Several established contemporary artists have approached the subject of self-portraiture in different ways, depicting who they are or who they wish to be at various times in their lives.

Looking at Drawings: Antonio Lopez Garcia's "Portrait of Maria"

Anthony Panzera comments on Antonio López García's Portrait of Maria.

A Light Touch at The J. Paul Getty Museum

An upcoming exhibition at The J. Paul Getty Museum, in Los Angeles, explores the
way various master draftsmen used drawing to comment on society, often revealing
their inner thoughts in the process.

Tiepolo Drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City, marks the renovation and reopening of the Robert Lehman Wing with an exhibition of 60 drawings by Venetian master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and his son, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.