For artists, few objects are as challenging to capture as the human form. To render the figure on canvas or paper requires mastery of contouring, shading, perspective, proportion and countless other ...

PORT TOWNSEND — “Queering the Body,” a figure drawing class series for queer, gender non-conforming and trans folk, will start April 10 at Northwind Art, the nonprofit art school at Fort Worden State ...

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 ...

The room is quiet and still. The lights dim, casting shadows that dance among the easels. A model steps into the center, letting his robe fall away. Dean Reynolds, a professor at the School of Art, ...