FANTAGRAPHICS UNDERGROUND PARTY OF ONE

Portland-based artist Elizabeth Haidle muses, "Drawing from live models is hard. Why do we do hard things?" And as she paints the human form in dazzling watercolors, uncovering the nuances of gesture, evoking the personalities behind the poses, embellishing her figures with whimsical details - in short, striving to capture the enormity of humanity - she may have just found her answer.