I've become completely addicted to this series of filmed rehearsals of the Royal Ballet on YouTube. I could have sworn I previously post...

Enjoy some Debussy.

I finally finished the Berthe Morisot portrait that I wrote about a few posts back . It's somewhat large (about a meter tall). I'm ...

I mentioned a few days ago that I was having some trouble in the studio and planned to simply draw a portrait of Berthe Morisot from a phot...

This post has been adapted from an older post, Upright Citizens: The Importance of Head, Neck and Shoulders in Portraiture . It is part of t...

Places Journal ran this article by Despina Stratigakos about the massive erasure of women in architecture, both historically and ongoing...

I thank my lucky stars to have a studio. It's been a long time coming, but two months ago I finally (FINALLY) secured a small space to w...

This post is part of the series Ciana's Notes on Portraiture (see Neck, Shoulders & Spine here). When I was 13 my popular friend ...

For the last several months I've been collaborating with my friend Anna Guengerich, who works in the Anthropology Department at Vanderbi...

I ran across a German contest (whose deadline I'd long missed) to create a video to accompany the classical music provided. I was impre...

Sketch of my husband at a cafe, by Ciana Pullen / St. Rhinocéros

I did this sketch of a famous scene from the 1904 movie The Impossible Voyage, for an exhibit about science fiction and architecture in ...

Breakfast in Amalfi, Italy, by Ciana Pullen / St. Rhinocéros. It seems Italians don't "do breakfast" any more than a pastry ...