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Picture perfect
If you don't like the models where you paint, take an active role in their selection or complain loudly to the person who signs them up.
At the School of Visual Arts in NYC where I teach my two ongoing classes, I work with Jim, the model coordinator. He is the third, and by far the best, since I began my life painting classes and is really terrific. He was formerly a model himself and successfully posed in my classes. I have a priority check list regarding my models. First: do they show up on time? Second: can they hold still? Third: beyond one and two, everything else is a bonus.
Usually the models I get are terrific and as a result, the student work is too. Chasing the model around the painting is very frustrating for those with little experience (and sometimes for those with more than a little).
Keep in mind that models as a profession are just like any other. Be it doctors, lawyers, teachers, portrait artists or whatever, most people are relatively incompetent and it is your responsibility as the consumer to do the research.
The professionalism of the models dramatically impacts on the success of the students, which in turn reflects in enrollment (unhappy students don't return) and since $$$ are the bottom line (as far as institutions are concerned) the models understand, that if they screw up, they're history.
As a result the vast majority of the models I use are wonderful. And everyone is very, very happy.
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