Models have hit out at the “societal stigma about nudity” after a life drawing class which has been running for 30 years was asked to either cover its nude muses up or find a new venue due to ...

Looking at the great nude portraits of the past – the Olympia, the unclothed lady picnicking next to the suits in Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe – you can't help wondering what the models were ...

Rachel McCarthy is a working life model who runs the Register of Artists’ Models. Here she talks to Metro about the risks involved in life modelling, the difficulties of sitting still for a period of ...

Life models and artists in Sheffield are looking forward to getting back into the studio after lockdown restrictions eased and in person drawing classes can finally return. Did you know with a Digital ...

A life-drawing class that has been running for over 30 years in north London has been told to cover up its models or find a new venue after child safeguarding concerns were raised. The daytime class ...

SITTING still for a living might seem like a cushy job, but actually it can be a pain in the backside. Literally. Life models at Edinburgh College of Art are told in no uncertain terms what to expect.

Decades after life drawing classes were systematically dropped from the curriculum for British art colleges, ending a 200-year tradition of rigorous learning from prints, casts, and life models, the ...

Television viewers are getting a taste of how artists go about drawing life models with a series of classes on Channel 4. But what is it like to pose naked for art? It's cold, all eyes are on you, and ...

A row over an art class raises potentially difficult questions about the traditional method of learning to draw Name: Life drawing. Age: Ancient. Appearance: Upsettingly dangly. Just remind me, what ...

For most, taking your clothes off in front of a room full of people would be nothing short of a terrifying experience. But Ken Ralphs and Trudi Wright do it all in the name of art – modelling for ...

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Decades after life drawing classes were systematically dropped from the curriculum for British art colleges, ending a 200-year tradition of rigorous learning from prints, casts, and life models, the ...