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“It’s good to be me.” Sarah Skinner Today is February 1, 2010, a number of years after I and some friends finished writing this book, and 22 years after it was copyrighted and published. My wife, Beth, and I have re-examined it carefully over the past months to see if there were places where I might need to update it. A lot has happened, in fields related to art, to modeling and to publishing over the last twenty years, and it would not have been surprising to discover that this book needed changes to meet current needs. I still think it should stay the way it is, excepting certain practical issues like fees and contact information. As far as I can see, what I have written covers the moral and practical principles that artists and models need to follow in carrying out their working relationships. That relationship, at its finest (see “The Artist – Model Relationship,” in About MfLD) is a relationship of love. Where love between artist and model is appropriate, it is attuned to their love for other people and their interest in other activities and other things. I believe that drawing the nude figure is fundamentally a celebration of humanness, including sexuality: sexuality that is good, beautiful and holy. This is a textbook for models and artists to help us in this celebration. Hugh Kilmer 919 295 4304 |
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Thanks for posting this website. I wonder why I haven\\\'t come across it before. I\\\'ve been modeling for figure classes for 26 years now (in fact, there was about a fifteen minute period back in 2001 when I was the most famous art model in America -- http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=8249328), and I try to read thoughts and opinions of other models whenever possible.
Thanks,
Dan
Really like this website intro!
Very pleased to discover this site.
Here are some photos of myself working as a life drawing model. as well as a bit of musing on the subject:
http://ihavenoprivateparts.tumblr.com/post/18216616083/my-work-clothes
~ Naked Andy