Dominic

[Chris Saper]

Perhaps Debra will step in here to elaborate...but at the Scottsdale Artist's School there are two 3-hour portrait open studios per week (draped). There are also two figurative (nude) open studio sessions per week, one of which is 3 hours of short life-drawing type poses, and one of which is a single 3-hour pose.

You know in advance which kind of open studio you'll have. When I was there the other night I heard the models have now gotten a raise to (Ithink) $12/ hour draped, with a dollar or two perhaps more for nude modeling.

The models are excellent, and you just can never appreciate them enough, it's very tough work. Even though I think I have a pretty good capacity for internal dialogue, even traffic ticket school can drive me right to the edge. I couldn't do it, that's for sure.

Debra, Great job!