The workers who pose for artists at historic organizations like the Art Students League say they are overworked and underpaid in a field that rarely values them.

Tens of thousands of years ago an aspiring artist picked up a piece of charcoal and drew an image of another early human being on the rocky wall of a cave. Across the millennia that followed people ...

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 ...

Artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci have drawn inspiration from the human body for centuries. Mike Radford, the life drawing class leader at Arts & Design Society, said life drawing is a challenge.

Her body is a work of art. Smooth, fair skin. Thick upper thighs that taper to thin lower calves. A pooch below the waist - her "Botticelli belly." Jennie Moore, a 24-year-old student at the ...

A row has broken out after a life-drawing class in north London was told its nude models should wear clothes following complaints. Organisers of the daytime class have accused “puritanical” Hampstead ...