“But for me, it was very calm.” Modeling puts some stress on her body, she said, “but it’s like leg day at the gym.” Boston Figurative Art Center opened 15 years ago at Somerville’s ...

The pose lasts for two minutes until a timer is set off signaling a change in position. ? ?Coffman has been a live nude figure model for the CSUN Art Department for almost 10 years.? ?He became ...

She gets naked at school, and she does it a lot. Cirocco is one of about 30 models employed part-time by the School of Art & Design to pose nude before students in figure drawing, painting and ...

I often wonder what it takes to do a job most know little about yet is essential to rendering the human figure in art. My first model was not nude and not even human. As a kid I relentlessly drew ...

It’s a life drawing class, an art class in which a figure model poses nude for artists to paint or draw. Kelly, 30, is the figure model at this session. She begins with two- to three-minute ...

Before then, they were an art student in Philadelphia where the figure drawing scene featured many models of color as well as models who identified as fat, queer, and disabled. In Boston ...

When she was twenty, Saragoussi moved to New Orleans to attend art school. Her issues with her own body image persisted, but being surrounded by nude models in her drawing classes began to shift ...

after observing the sketches other students made of their model. Then the art major took a figure drawing class for herself and wanted to see how students would sketch her. “At first ...

When she was in college, F. took off her clothes for $16 an hour. F., 23, worked as a model for figure drawing classes at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, a job that required her to stand ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Portland Drawing Group started about three years ago and hosts public ...