Oct. 6—PLATTSBURGH — The human figure has been a muse for artists since time immemorial, and now North Country's hidden artists get a chance to draw in "From Life: The Classical Art of Figure Drawing, ...

As I’ve been meeting new friends this semester, I’ve taken to opening conversations with the line: “I’m taking a figure drawing class with various nude models on Thursday nights.” In the spirit of my ...

Figure drawing is an excellent practice for artists to study human forms in various shapes and postures. Besides proportions, perspective, shading and all the fundamentals of drawing, figure drawing ...

“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 ...

Watermark Art Center will host a variety of art workshops for the month of January. From 6 to 8 p.m. on Jan. 8, Jan. 15, Jan.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even when artists are working with the same subject, the results can be dramatically different, reflecting their personal style, choice of medium, and other artistic decisions. This fundamental truth ...

Censorship in art is never really about art — it’s about control. That's the case with decision to drop nude classes at the ...