Are you ready to take your figure drawing to the next level? Learn the Mentler Methode figure structure approach online! No disks, no long flights, just press play and dive in at your own pace!
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 Structure & Mechanics of the Human Machine • Sept 26-30, 2025
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A 5-Day Mentler Méthode Master Class In life drawing, one should avoid being seduced by surface detail; details are never the draughtsman’s friend. They are a distraction from the Mass Conception. To effectively incorporate observable surface information into drawing of the human form, it’s essential to understand the underlying structure. This workshop focuses specifically on
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Mentored Drawing Sessions and Summer Break
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Mentler Methodé Saturday Labs on Pause As Texan summer is in full swing, we are going to take a break from Saturday labs and sessions until further notice. We had less interest in these past few weeks, so we are going to pause Mentler Methodé Saturday Labs for now. Mentored Sessions are in! Instead, we
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Learn Mentler Methodé Online
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Coming in 2025! We heard you loud and clear here at TSOFA, and we are working hard to bring online classes to you this year. At the moment, we are finalizing the list of lessons and moving onto video editing. After all, the beauty of studying online is in the concise materials, and that is
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Mentler Method Labs • Every Other Saturday
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TSoFA Open Studio Sessions: Wednesday • Portrait • 10:30-1:30 •• Friday • Figure • 10:30-1:30 •• Every Other Saturday • Figure 1:30-4:15 Mentler Méthode Labs Every Other Saturday 10:30-1:00 Demonstration 1:30-4:15 LIVE MODEL May 17th–– GRAVITY • Tension • May 31st–– GRAVITY • Yin, Yang June 14th— GRAVITY • Review June 19th-23nd––Mentler Méthode Master •
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CHARVIN EXTRA FINE & FINE OIL COLOUR REVIEW
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PROSPECTOUS: Extra-Fine Gold Our range of 208 extra-fine oil colours offers the most extensive palette of colours in the world, with poppy oil being the principal binder of all our colours. This gives the paste a brilliant appearance, plus a creamy texture, and most importantly prevents your colours from yellowing with age. However, it also
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Is The Munsell Color Matching System The Best System For Painters?
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THE SHORT ANSWER IS NO. Color Matching is the key here; a few Realist painters adhere to the Munsell system to match colors. Practitioners of Munsell use his ten basic hues: Yellow (Y), Yellow Green (G-Y), Green (G), Blue-Green (B-G), Blue (B), Purple-Blue (P-B), Purple (P), Red-Purple (R-P), Red (R), and Yellow-Red (Y-R). Lighting and