Pencils and paintbrushes rise when Kelly removes her robe and perches on a wooden platform one recent Sunday morning. Each artist in the small group at the Arts & Design Society of Fort Walton Beach ...

"If we all saw each other naked in more casual settings, it wouldn’t be such a big deal anyway," says one retiree, who’s been drawing at the Boston Figurative Art Center for a decade. Model Collin ...

As Holly Hanson was working on a gesture drawing of a nude model for her life drawing class, the model, who was standing on his tip-toes, started to shake violently. “We all wondered why he had chosen ...

A female model stands perfectly still – and perfectly posed – on a table underneath a straw tiki hut. The salmon-colored sky and patio string lights hanging from the surrounding trees help frame the ...

BELFAST, Maine (WABI) - From prehistoric Venus figurines to Michelangelo’s David, artists have tried to capture the natural beauty of the human form for thousands of years. In Belfast, a weekly class ...

The thought of stepping in front of a roomful of artists as a figure drawing model for the first time was nerve-wracking for Michelle Long. She recalls nervously rehearsing for her modeling debut in ...