A radical life drawing class featuring nude models in a pub has come to Tayside.
All the Young Nudes (ATYN) involves art enthusiasts gathering to sketch a nude model while having a pint.
The organisation was founded in Glasgow five years ago and has since grown in popularity to such an extent that lines now stretch outside its events there.
The event is open to amateurs and professionals alike.
Gallery: All the Young Nudes draws a crowd in Dundee
“It is something totally different,” explains founder Joanna Susskind.
“We decided to open up in Dundee because a lot of people in Dundee were asking for an ATYN class”
Joanna believes ATYN’s success comes from its relaxed and different atmosphere.
“If you’re not an artistic person or a creative person, this is a great place to start because everyone who comes almost always enjoys it,” she said.
And attendees agreed.
“It is a really great way to get into life drawing,” said Rebecca Oneil, who attended the Dundee opening at the Redd Suite, Session Street.
“I’ve been to the other one in Glasgow and this event was very similar. I feel like I have been here before.”
“There is nothing like it here,” she added.
Other artists agreed, with professional landscape painter Ken Bushe saying the event was “brilliant”.
He added: “It really is a discipline. Life drawing is the best artistic practice you can get in my view.”
The ATYN class will now take place every Tuesday from 8pm in the Redd Suite, Session Street. Entry is £5. See more at atyn.co.uk.I’m no PicassoMany people would be, quite naturally, sceptical of any activity involving naked women in pubs, writes Andy Liddle.
This scepticism would be doubtless enhanced by the “cut to the chase” of the ATYN class that is, ordering a pint, turning around, and being instantly confronted by a woman in the buff.
In fact, though, nothing could be further from the truth the ATYN class was totally absorbing and, indeed, dignified.
It seemed there was something simultaneously therapeutic and challenging about the drawing.
The two hours of class quickly seemed to turn into minutes.
Of course, my charcoal sketches were rubbish.
But even as it reassured me I’m no Picasso, it also totally changed my view of nudity in pubs.