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Monet and Venice at Brooklyn Museum

Lauren Panepinto

Happy Christmas, Solstice, Hanukah, Kwanza, or whatever other holiday you may celebrate. In my family, there's a run of family birthdays between the first week of November straight through Nov & Dec until my mother's birthday on December 18th. And most years I take the day off work and we go to a museum together. This year, we went to see the Monet and Venice show currently at the Brooklyn Museum. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1JNQTZCx30[/embed] Now, I respect…

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How to Draw Folds and Study Drapery

Ron Lemen

December 22, 2025 - Happy holidays.Despite the craziness in the world today, I hope you’re still finding some quiet refuge in your creative space. I have a small gift for you this Christmas. I’m sharing the beginning of a new video series on how to draw folds and drapery like a boss. With CGMA no longer active, I now have full creative control over this material and wanted to make it available directly to you. This course was consistently regarded as one of the strongest deep dives on the subject, and I’m excited to finally share it freely with everyone. Folds and drapery are one of those fundamentals that play a big part in gesture, form, action, and more. In this series, I cover all nine fold types (not seven), material types and how to differentiate them convincingly, the…

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