Well done and well said between the two of you. The idea of keeping the subject model pure and natural is very important in both the purpose of the art session as well as the clean strokes of the artist. Explaining to and giving an option to the parents is best. Keep well, Dan. Nice hearing from you. Jan&Gary 😊
Yes! Well done! The one aspect that I didn't notice was the body shaming that occurs when you hide a specific body part(s). This points to a conclusion that there is something bad or wrong about those parts.
Your explanation was spot on, that the session should be in costume or not. You would never pose in a semi-costume, well except that you did. Once. 😏
Our art college has life drawings sessions, sent via email to all the models on the list and it's first come first serve. Any sessions requiring clothing I just give q
a pass on. Good for you on standing your ground on that matter.
I doubt that I'd ever pose nude for an art class I thought might have minors in it. Even if the parents were there and there was 30 feet of separation between the students and the model, someone, somewhere, might freak out. I don't need the heartburn. The Madison WNBR has left me spooked.
Many colleges stopped offering nude figure drawing for first years. Some US colleges have even stopped offering nude figure drawing entirely. Nobody wants the potential harassment. G-strings are often required in supposedly nude figure drawing.
The country has swung to the social conservative corner of the spectrum. Even the fairly nude-tolerant West Coast of the US had threats of violence raised against a nude family swim at a proposed INF meeting. So it didn't happen.
Some day it will swing back but probably not for a few years.
Actually, IMHO the swing back is inevitable. The story of American politics is a story of regular swings between the left and the right. Trump himself is just a symptom of this. He didn't "cause" anything, he just stepped into a power vacuum. The MAGA voters were already there looking for a leader. There are social and economic factors making the current swing more violent than previous ones.
Right now, Trump looks like he will be president but November is still a long ways away. The balance of voting power is held by people who hate both candidates - that's probably a large majority of the vote. How Congress goes will be definitive. State and local elections are the ones that affect nudists the most. . And then we'll have the mid-terms.
As someone who also models, I applaud what you wrote. There can be a double standard. In fact, I hear how it can be difficult to get male models and artists want more than the same body type of a female. When I talk with artists they lament that there is still a stigma of a male nude model posing. This is not political it is the fact that it is not always easy finding male models willing to pose nude. I am of the viewpoint that if a parent is informed a head of time and they are ok with a male nude model posing in front of their child who is under 18, then this should never be an issue.
Well done and well said between the two of you. The idea of keeping the subject model pure and natural is very important in both the purpose of the art session as well as the clean strokes of the artist. Explaining to and giving an option to the parents is best. Keep well, Dan. Nice hearing from you. Jan&Gary 😊
Yes! Well done! The one aspect that I didn't notice was the body shaming that occurs when you hide a specific body part(s). This points to a conclusion that there is something bad or wrong about those parts.
Your explanation was spot on, that the session should be in costume or not. You would never pose in a semi-costume, well except that you did. Once. 😏
~Safebare
Our art college has life drawings sessions, sent via email to all the models on the list and it's first come first serve. Any sessions requiring clothing I just give q
a pass on. Good for you on standing your ground on that matter.
I doubt that I'd ever pose nude for an art class I thought might have minors in it. Even if the parents were there and there was 30 feet of separation between the students and the model, someone, somewhere, might freak out. I don't need the heartburn. The Madison WNBR has left me spooked.
Many colleges stopped offering nude figure drawing for first years. Some US colleges have even stopped offering nude figure drawing entirely. Nobody wants the potential harassment. G-strings are often required in supposedly nude figure drawing.
The country has swung to the social conservative corner of the spectrum. Even the fairly nude-tolerant West Coast of the US had threats of violence raised against a nude family swim at a proposed INF meeting. So it didn't happen.
Some day it will swing back but probably not for a few years.
Actually, IMHO the swing back is inevitable. The story of American politics is a story of regular swings between the left and the right. Trump himself is just a symptom of this. He didn't "cause" anything, he just stepped into a power vacuum. The MAGA voters were already there looking for a leader. There are social and economic factors making the current swing more violent than previous ones.
Right now, Trump looks like he will be president but November is still a long ways away. The balance of voting power is held by people who hate both candidates - that's probably a large majority of the vote. How Congress goes will be definitive. State and local elections are the ones that affect nudists the most. . And then we'll have the mid-terms.
As someone who also models, I applaud what you wrote. There can be a double standard. In fact, I hear how it can be difficult to get male models and artists want more than the same body type of a female. When I talk with artists they lament that there is still a stigma of a male nude model posing. This is not political it is the fact that it is not always easy finding male models willing to pose nude. I am of the viewpoint that if a parent is informed a head of time and they are ok with a male nude model posing in front of their child who is under 18, then this should never be an issue.