“Capture the balance of this pose,” Heddi Siebel says as she walks around the room. “Get the back, get the weight.” Students stand around the model, Callista Womick, in a semicircle, facing easels ...

The lessons taught in South Shore Arts’ Principles of Figure Drawing class have been around for thousands of years, according to art instructor Nikki Kutansky. “For 5,000 years, figures dominated art, ...

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 ...

A few minutes before today's advanced figure drawing class begins, students slowly file into a classroom at Ringling College of Art and Design. Like chefs preparing their stations, the students go ...

On my own personal journey towards self-acceptance, body positive art has been one of my most helpful tools. The first places where I really encountered the openly naked human body were my college art ...

ROCK SPRINGS — Fall is time for classes to begin again at the Community Fine Arts Center (CFAC) in Rock Springs. New to our list is an introductory figure drawing class on Saturday, Sept. 9 from 9 a.m ...

WORCESTER — The Worcester Art Museum has some impressive nudes in its collection. A 16th-century oil painting of a reclining Venus stealing Cupid’s bow. An Edward Weston platinum print of a woman ...

The first time Dave Cairns stripped his robe in front of a class full of students he was nervous — and he wasn’t the only one. “The first time was for a group of five or six artists in the basement of ...