"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 ...

Freehand sketching is practically in my DNA, yet I had never felt so amateur when I began illustrating Leisha Stanek — my first time drawing a live model. By cash or check, 12 artists were allowed ...

The workers who pose for artists at historic organizations like the Art Students League say they are overworked and underpaid in a field that rarely values them.

The models are nude, sometimes propped with hats, parasols, swords, fabric or costume, and their poses are standing, seated, kneeling or supine. Since they have a couple of models who belly dance, ...

PORT ANGELES — Drink and Draw will kick off the annual Bring Your Own Blacklight Art exhibit with a glow-themed session at 7 p.m. Thursday. The free, family- and dog-friendly, live-model drawing ...

Santa Claus life model drawing: 6 p.m. Monday, Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to draw and paint Santa Claus in a ...

Artist Isaac McCaslin was selected as Arts Southeast’s 2025 Incubator Artist. McCaslin started Savannah Open Model Sessions to make live-model drawing more accessible for local artists. An upcoming ...

COXSACKIE — For centuries, great artists have revered the human body for its lines and beauty, but for many modern-day artists, creating art from a live model has become a rarity. Not so at ...

Tens of thousands of years ago an aspiring artist picked up a piece of charcoal and drew an image of another early human being on the rocky wall of a cave. Across the millennia that followed people ...