Too brief to get anything down but a scribble, the roughest mass of a body in space. Then came the longer poses. This is when you started to take in the person—the real person, the real body. Like ...

Tens of thousands of years ago an aspiring artist picked up a piece of charcoal and drew an image of another early human being on the rocky wall of a cave. Across the millennia that followed people ...

Daisy the border collie was supposed to be a working sheep dog, but the farming world was not for her. She has now collared a more comfortable job by taking centre-stage at life drawing classes in ...