Attention all figurative artists! Join The Great Nude for an evening of drawing and painting from live nude models during the Art Basel Miami festivities. This Friday and Saturday, December 5th and 6th!

Professional models will be posing in a tropical setting accompanied by music and drinks. Art supplies will be provided. All attendees must R.S.V.P to Miami@thegreatnude.tv.

For more information please download our flyer or Subscribe to TheGreatNude.tv. See you there!

As The Great Nude prepares for our venture down to Miami next week, here is some video taken last year in Miami at the RAM Miami and an interview with renowned Portraitist Dan Thompson as he paints Miami City Ballerina Deanna Seay.

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As promised we’ve added a brand new video player to our main site. Now you can view all of our videos in on central location through an easy to use side bar.

Things are busy here at The Great Nude Studio as we plan for our event in Miami. If you are an artist coming down to Miami for Art Basel, be sure to check out our invitational for a private Sketch Sessions event. Attendance by R.S.V.P. only and seating is limited. Drop us a line if you’d like to come.

In other news a pleasant surprise - we were recently blogged by the Figurative Sculpting Blog iSculpt. Check out the site for various musings about Figure Scultping.

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This past summer The Great Nude attended several exciting live drawing events in New York City. One such event was “Adult Drawing” hosted by promoter Alex Zoppa.

Unique to the “Adult Drawing” event is an atmosphere that merges elements of a social gathering, eroticism and the traditional study of the live nude. The result is a novel cross-section of artists, models, and onlookers in an electric environment.

You can read more about the “Adult Drawing” events at Time Out where The Great Nude.tv host Jeffery Wiener is pictured working on a sketches of one of our frequent models, Amy. Even Playboy Magazine (yes, that Playboy) has a take on the “Adult Drawing” events.

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In our newly posted Sketch Sessions video artists Scott Goodwille and Mikel Glass and host Jeff Wiener sketch the lovely Mia, a lithe model who has worked for several of New York City’s finest art schools and drawing ateliers.

In this video, all three artists comment about the drawing process, and in particular, the use of “triangulation” to compose an accurate rendering of a complex pose. Each has their own take on the process.

Host Jeffrey Wiener is joined by Scott Goodwillie in the final of four poses in our Sketch Sessions with our lovely Asian model Amy.

This session has our model standing squarely with her hands on her hips, to create interesting shadows down the length of her body. Note the wonderful way the shadow from her hand is cast on her buttocks. Our model also has a beautiful, strong back, and the definition of her muscles is noteworthy.

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