To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting.
– Ingres

Nicole Sleeth is a full-time artist in Vancouver, BC. She holds weekly drawing and painting classes at her studio, using an atelier-style approach to teach classical realism.