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 ...

It's six o'clock on a Friday night, and Hannah Lindsey, a sophomore in Columbia College, is lying nude on a pile of cushions. Pencils scratch paper and charcoal smudges on sketchbooks as the Columbia ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Annabel Wharton, 79, of Durham paints during a long pose figure drawing class at the Durham Arts Council. Credit: Photo by Angelica Edwards I wasn’t allowed to go to art school. So I went to Wesleyan ...

I took off my robe and tossed it on the floor, and all eyes were fixed on me. No, this isn’t some Penthouse fantasy, but the start of a nude drawing class. I’ve had the opportunity to attend them both ...

ALL THROUGH MY childhood, drawing was my thing. Then I started writing for a living, and the drawing just … stopped, as if my brain said, “I can do one creative thing, and that’s it.” I’d considered ...

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 ...

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 ...