Peggy McNutt - Washington, DC Region
Peggy has studied at MWC of UVA, VCU, and American University. She has exhibited her work at Montmartre; World Bank; Art League; Foundry Gallery; Wilson and Studio II Galleries; Mary's Center; Art-O-Matic; Democratic Women's, National Press and Arts Clubs.

Kevin Mellame - Washington, DC Region
My magazine drawings are a visual procreative process where two independent images are superimposed, and the interplay produces a third image which has the appearance of the original, yet has a spirit of its own.

Adrienne Mills - Washington, DC Region
Over the years, photographs that made a lasting impression involved body art of some sort. During figure painting and drawing classes in college, she often thought it would be more interesting to paint on the people instead of paper or canvas. Finally she's gotten around to doing it, and is primarily a portrait, PR & event photographer. She photographs most people with clothes and without paint.

Eric Nelson - Washington, DC Region
Eric's art has evolved from traditional media to innovative works in bas relief, particularly using mosaics. Eric is the artist in residence at a local commercial studio where he also teaches. His work has been exhibited at numerous venues.

Mike Nibley - Washington, DC Region
Mike Nibley lives in Washington, DC, with his wife Sandy, and works in computer-based training. He paints (preferably nudes) whenever he gets the chance.

Gail Poe - Washington, DC Region
Gail Poe has had a lifetime love of painting and enjoys two very distinctive styles of painting. One is very realistic and the other, although representative, is more impressionalistic. Her styles share a love of color that creates drama and emotion...

Sharon Powell - Washington, DC Region
The human form is in itself a work of art; yet art is not always beautiful.

Milind Raje - Washington, DC Region
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Rebecca Rogers - Washington, DC Region
I began life drawing in High school, and continually return to it during my painting and design practice. The spontaneous, single-session format is a welcome contrast to the gradual layering that I use in my paintings. Visit my website.

Mark Rooney - Washington, DC Region
Mark combines realism and abstract to create visual illusions often in the same work. He believes that the many lives we lead are a journey toward and a test preparing us for the ultimate reality of non-being.

Joel Russel - Richmond, VA

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Sally Russel - Richmond, VA

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Marty Slater - Washington, DC Region
I am a 62 year old microbiologist retired from the National Institute of Health. Figure drawing has been a hobby for about 15 years. I have entered many shows, received a few awards and sold several drawings.

Judith L. Smith - Washington, DC Region
Judy Smith's photo collage combines her photography with familiar shapes of nature. Her abstract art emerges from her graphic design where the dance of shape and color is her signature.

Lauren Smith - Washington, DC Region
A summer in Rome surrounded by Bernini called me to sculpture; my fascination with the complexity of a human's mind, body, and soul called me to figurative and portraiture work.

Dick Swartz - Washington, DC Region
Dick has been a commercial artist all his life and only recently has devoted full time to fine art and teaching. He finds beauty everywhere but especially loves to draw the figure in all its complexities.

Richard Takeuchi - Washington, DC Region
Richard has studied at several art schools in the area for more than 15 years. He has further developed his skills by attending open sessions and by spending countless hours in his studio. He works almost exclusively from the human figure.

Meghan Taylor - Washington, DC Region
Meghan received a B.A. in Studio Art with a concentration in painting from the University of New York at Genesco, where she focused on watercolor and human figure studies. She paints and exhibits in the Washington, DC area.

Jim Tretick - Washington, DC Region
Jim's play with light and nature gives this image an eerie and sensual quality. His other natural photographs are equally inspiring.

Gerald Valerio - Annapolis, MD

Gerald has a lengthy history in art and art-related disciplines, with a special interest and talent in figurative and portraiture work.

Monica Vega-Christi - Washington, DC Region
Growing up in an artistic environment, I dreamed of becoming an artist. After learning that artists have difficult lives I became a Graphic Designer, Art Director and a Graphic related business woman. But I kept studying art and after selling my business am ready to go towards my dream.

Jerry Venziano - Williamsburg, VA
Jerry Venzenio is a sculptor and blacksmith from Williamsburg, VA, with works exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the southeast, and can be found in the collections of Plimoth Plantation and Jamestown Settlement, as well as private collections throughout North America.

Joseph Virgilio - Washington, DC Region
What began as an interest in college has grown to where I am now a professional photographer with emphasis on portrait, fashion and artistic live studies. I love black and white and am drawn to shadows that form patterns with a strong degree of graphic content.

James Warren - Washington, DC Region

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Frank Wedel - Washington, DC Region
A Washington DC native, Frank loves the Italian Renaissance artists especially and does pencil drawings, and oil and acrylic paintings.

Bob Worthy - Fredericksburg, VA
The act of creation is an act of faith. My best art happens when I surrender to the creative process and let my art make itself. Please stop by my website.

Anthony Yannone - Washington, DC Region
The admiration of the great masters, and their contemporary counterparts, instill in Anthony a motivating appreciation and awareness for the development of his own visual language.

Elin Zurbrigg - Washington, DC Region
A long-time visual and vocal artist (photographer, watercolorist and printmaker, Slavic a capella singer), Elin Zurbrigg brings her sketchbook to the Figure Models Guild drawing sessions at MOCA whenever she is not attending community meetings associated with her day job in affordable housing development.