Live Model Figure Drawing with Helen Tueffel

All skill levels are welcome to join this live model figure drawing session! 

The session will include quick poses followed by two longer poses, one nude and one draped.

All media are welcome. Drawing materials will be available for your use, but if you use other media, please bring your materials with you. 

Helen will introduce the session with some helpful techniques on how to capture a realistic portrait of the model using measuring, triangulation, relative positioning, and anatomical cues. Critique throughout the process will be offered if requested.

Practice makes perfect! Join us for this master session.

Instructor Helen Tueffel 
Saturday, April 18, 2026 
10AM–2 PM
$25 Members / $30 Non-members
Limited Space is Available

Helen Tueffel was born in Gliwice, Poland on September 11, 1958 to American parents. When she was three years old, she moved to Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. Art became a special part of Helen’s life when a wonderful art teacher came to teach at Wisconsin Dells High School. It was her first real art exhibit and her first awards.

“My artwork is inspired by many things. People I know.  Places that strike me.  Things that I care about.  A high school art teacher was the first to motivate me to put more focus into art, to take it from a hobby to a rich thread that would wind throughout my life.  My second mentor didn’t present himself until many years later, after I was well into a corporate career and a family.  On Wednesday nights, we would paint in a small group – it was the first time I’d painted in oils other than childhood paint-by-number.  I like new materials, skewed perspectives, and consider myself an art wanderer.  Canvas and paint; automotive admixtures and photography; gels and acetate squares; they’ve all made their way into a work.  My deepest connection, however, is with pastels and they will always be my grounding medium.  The most incredible aspect of a work of art is in the observation by the viewer and the connection that is made when the art is observed, and understood or felt.”

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