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 ...

Arts & Culture Reporter Grace Phillips tests her creative side with Huzzah Books' biweekly figure drawing event.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I don't know about you, but I've always been curious about whether weird stuff ever goes down in art classes that involve nude ...

Too brief to get anything down but a scribble, the roughest mass of a body in space. Then came the longer poses. This is when you started to take in the person—the real person, the real body. Like ...

Instructor Darren Kerr talks to Sabina Grogan about the proportions of the human face during a life drawing class at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On a recent evening ...

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 ...

"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 ...

The Columbus Recreation and Parks Department's cultural arts center will cease using nude models in its art classes for liability reasons, a department spokesperson said. Registration for art classes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The life-drawing class has been forced to move to the nearby Quaker Meeting House - SWNS/Tony Kershaw A row has broken out after a ...

Russo, 78, loved drawing as a kid and considered a career in art before landing a position climbing down New York City ...

Vida Sofia, a local model and artist, unpacked her supplies on the rooftop pool area of the Hotel Greystone on South Beach on a Wednesday afternoon. Before the sun set, she carefully organized the ...

For many, attending school naked is nothing more than a titillating nightmare (or fantasy), but some students at LSU really do show it all before their classmates. They’re the nude art models in the ...