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 ...

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 ...

Alida Pepper was staring down depression. Stuck in her apartment in San Francisco, she worried that all the plans she’d made were about to unravel. For months, Pepper, a full-time life drawing model, ...

Mr Lim Kim Hian keeping still for a pose during a life drawing session at the Arterly Obsessed art studio on Jan 21, 2026. (Photo: CNA/Ooi Boon Keong) In my years as a journalist, I have interviewed ...

It’s Monday night at 7 p.m. and a group of painters meet in a large studio room, setting up their easels and supplies to sketch a nude model. Life Drawing is a University RSO that helps artists bring ...

In the Before Times, I had occasionally gone to life-drawing classes: part social activity, part attempt to improve drawing skills. I would say I sort of enjoyed them; I liked the atmosphere, the ...

Santa Claus life model drawing: 6 p.m. Monday, Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to draw and paint Santa Claus in a ...