Naked Truths About Life Drawing Classes

Learning to see

19th-century life drawing in the Painter Workshop, School of Fine Arts, Paris, France.

Dear Reader, 

Not long ago I started attending life drawing classes at a local college.

Just as you see in films or on TV, the disrobed figure sits in the centre of a room with a circle of easels surrounding them. Behind the easels, students drag charcoal blocks or dab I…