“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 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 ...

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 ...

Baylor University, a Baptist school known for prohibiting on-campus dancing and censuring female students who posed for Playboy magazine, has decided to offer a nude figure drawing class for the first ...