“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 ...

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 ...

Talita Long, 65, stands on a rectangle pedestal under a spotlight, holding a playground ball on her head while 24 pairs of eyes study, examine and draw the anatomy of her naked body. This is the Life ...

The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art will offer a drawing and painting class, “The Portrait and the Figure,” from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursdays from Jan. 5-26 at 500 Palm Drive in Novato. The class will ...

A life drawing class at the Boston Figurative Art Center (photo by Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Aaron Bogan, a professional art model and illustrator originally from New ...