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Join us every Friday for a figure drawing session from a model. We will start with short warm-up poses and work our way to longer poses. This is a perfect sequence to work on your gesture!
Current Schedule
Every Wednesday
Drawing from model, long pose
10:30am – 1:30pm
Every Friday
Drawing from nude model, short and/or long pose
10:30am – 1:30pm
Every First Saturday of the Month
Drawing from nude model, short and/or long pose
10:30am – 1:30pm
Upcoming Labs & Workshops
Physical Materials
Own a real physical disk or book that will last a lifetime instead of fleeting digital downloads.
PLAN – Figure Drawing Blu-ray
The Book of Bones
Heads, Faces, and Features DVD
Art by Michael Mentler
Visit studio owner’s art gallery. A number of original drawings and paintings by Michael Mentler are available for purchase and ready to be added to your collection.
Latest Posts
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The Twilight of Contour
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Let us begin with what is known as the Boston School of Painters. Key figures in the Boston School were Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank Weston Benson, and William McGregor Paxton, all of whom trained in Paris at the Academie Julian and later taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Other painters associated
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SELF FULFILLING PROPHECY
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OR the Living Master Disaster… ARC bestows the title of Living Master on artists is considers to outstanding examples of their core philosophy. That philosophy reflects the dictums of the mid-19thc French Academy. These Academic Salon paintings display a high degree or craft or technique but little else. There is virtually nothing to distinguish one
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ACADEMIC XENOPHOBIA
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Once upon a time, the French Academy dictated what was defined as Fine Art and what was not. If one did not follow the Academies rules, he was considered unskilled, untalented, and scorned by the Academy. We use ‘He’ here because the official Academy did not admit women. These regulated regurgitated governmental dictums held sway
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EACH TO THEIR OWN DEVICES
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In his book ‘Secret Knowledge’ Hockney and Professor Martin Kemp, discuss known visual procedures of past Masters. This evidentiary material allows the reader to arrive at their own conclusions. There is more than enough scholarly evidence that Vermeer, and many others, used a form of ‘Camera Obscura’ or curved mirror as a visual aide in
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Post-Card Putti
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The Putti Paintings of William-Adolphe Bouguereau pose an openly disturbing question. Are these fluttering Putti, naked Ninos and pre-pubescent young girls Angelically endearing or Bacchanalian? These Images of breast caressing maidens awaiting spoil were typical of the Salon paintings of the era that saw the demise of Academic History Painting Bouguereau is, without doubt, objectifying
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AND APPLE A DAY
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We are often asked the difference between Realist and Representational Art. The image to the left is, of course, a photograph. Photographs are what realist art is compared to. This illustration of an apple is an example of what one might find in a vintage seed catalog. It actually describes the apple in terms of