This piece explores a simple yet powerful drawing exercise that is often overlooked but has the potential to transform creativity and problem-solving skills. By engaging in freeform sketching and ...

Drawing is hard. Even after a lesson with a New Yorker cartoonist, I get spooked by the simplest drawing exercises. If you’re also easily scared off, but you want to get better, try these basic ...

Begin with a proper sketch book. Draw in ink. Finish each drawing you begin, and keep every drawing you finish. No erasing, no ripping out a page, no covering a page with angry scribbles. What you ...

We move during the rest of our week in Haiti from one group of health professionals and community leaders to another. It is a slow progress through the traffic jams in Port-Au-Prince's rubble-narrowed ...

Picture this: Someone you love is "counting on you" to do something, but you don't want to do it. Do you do it or not? How do you say "no" and still feel like a good person? It's all about knowing — ...

Claire Watson Garcia knows the look. She has seen it for about 30 years. “They stop at the door, peer around, and say, ‘Is this the class for the utter, total, complete beginner ... ,’ and before they ...