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Figure Drawing Sessions

Figure Drawing Sessions

Figure Drawing Sessions is a no-instructor workshop.

Figure Drawing meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month in 2026, as listed below:
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
 
January 7 & 21
February 4 & 18
March 4 & 18
April 1 & 15
May 6 & 20
June 3 & 17
July 1 & 15
August 5 & 19
September 2 & 16
October 7 & 21
November 4 & 18
December 2 & 16

Non-members: 4 sessions for $120.00.

Members: 4 sessions for $100.00.
Location: Arts Benicia, 1 Commandant’s Lane, Drawing Classroom (upstairs)
Levels: All levels
Age minimum: 18

Pose lengths: An Arts Benicia Figure Drawing session is a classical academic nude atelier, normally starting with 10 two-minute poses, then five, then 2 ten-minute poses, and finishing with a succession of twenty-minute poses. Models take a break after every 20 minutes of posing. The posing routine can change if agreed upon by all attendees.
Models: No photos of models are allowed. Cell phones are not to be answered or brandished in the drawing studio.
Art Materials: All dry media are acceptable as well as ink and acrylic; odorless solvents only with oil paints.
Clean Up: Artists should put away their furniture and pack up all their personal art materials.

Artwork: Kim Smith

UPCOMING ADULT CLASSES/WORKSHOPS

  • Abstracting with Drawing, Stencil and Monoprint Class
  • Abstracts in Mixed Media with Acrylics
  • Collage Jam: Collage Artists’ Workshop
  • Cyanotype Printing
  • Figure Drawing Sessions
  • Figures in Oil and Cold Wax
  • Make Your Own Paper from Recycled Materials!
  • Paper Gems
  • Photography Foundations: Photo 101
  • Printing Note Cards on a Tabletop Press
  • Printmaker’s Workshop
  • Repairing a Broken Book
  • Screen Printing at The W.O.R.K.S With Thomas Wojak
  • Small Worlds: Assemblage Dioramas
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Physical Location:

Arts Benicia
Commanding Officer’s Quarters
1 Commandant’s Lane
Benicia, CA 94510

The Arts Benicia Annex (for printmaking classes) is located at
991 Tyler Street, Ste. 116
Benicia, CA 94510

Directions to Arts Benicia at the Commanding Officer’s Quarters

Mailing address:

Arts Benicia, Inc.
P.O. Box 545
290 East L Street  Benicia, CA 94510-0545

CALL US: 707 747-0131
EMAIL: info@artsbenicia.org

GALLERY HOURS:
open during exhibitions
Thursday through Sunday, 1-5 pm

Arts Benicia is a 501(c)(3) organization with Tax ID 68-0157927

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