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 ...

For more than 40 years, the Friday Figure Group has been meeting on Friday mornings at the Falmouth Art Center, painting from a live model. The session is open to ...

Blank canvases fill the intimate space of an art studio, which is focused on a wooden stage in the front of the room. Students are propped up in their seats waiting to begin class. Charles Coffman ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - A couple’s side hustle requires bravery. Jane Durden and Joseph Winstead are figure models. The two pose for art students. Sometimes, their work requires nudity. “The idea of ...

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 ...

From learning to smize to perfecting your angles, you’re going to run into a lot of advice on your road to becoming a model. Posing perfectly for a photo shoot can still be a difficult endeavor, no ...

There are many books out there for artists that have poses of the human form for reference use. Of course there’s also the live model who can pose for an artist as well. Yet this can grow costly, can ...