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With years of figurative drawing classes in school, painting sessions at the arts league, and life study sessions with colleagues in the studio, come stacks and stacks of visual studies in charcoal, pencil, watercolor and oil. Each depicting a model whose curves and color the artists may know better than their own skin.

Those who haven't spent an afternoon analyzing a nude figure perched on a stool in a room full of people may not realize how little of them you actually consciously see. When your so busy scrutinizing over each minute curve, cast shadows and lost lines you often fail to appreciate the work a good model can accomplish. I recall my favorites as pros in their ability to strike and hold fascinating poses. A good model understands the instructional role of their "position".

Today's Seattle Post Intelligencer published an insightful article showcasing the work of one such model, Robert Treat. Robert has been modeling for 27 years. You can imagine the hundreds-of-thousands of drawings featuring his likeness done by hundreds of students and artists sitting among their stacks of life drawings all across the state.

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