Join us every Wednesday, every Friday, and on the first Saturday of the month for a figure drawing session from live model in Carrollton, TX.
Learn human proportion and art materials at the Texas Hill Country Atelier in a 4-day hands-on figure drawing workshop with Michael Mentler in Kerrville, TX.
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!
Current Schedule
July 3-4
Holiday Break
No figure drawing sessions on Friday and Saturday, July 3 and 4, 2026
Every Wednesday
Drawing from nude or costumed 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
August 31 – September 3, 2026
Figure drawing workshop with Michael Mentler
Kerrville, Texas, USA
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.
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Interpreting The Tao ‘The Way’
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Sie Ho’s Six Laws These are guiding universal principles of creative guidance. The straight interpretation from the Chinese doesn’t quite get us to a point of understanding without some additional explanation. 1st. Consonance of spirit engenders the movement (of life) 2nd. The law of bones by means of the brush 3rd. Form represented through conformity…
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Training In The Renaissance Workshop
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Training of the ‘Garzoni’ or apprentices in the Renaissance Masters workshop was far different then one imagines. The length of the apprenticeship varied and the what they were apprenticing to be also differed. Not everyone apprenticed to be and artist, many were trained to be ‘artisans’. The apprentices were expected to learn to draw and paint in…
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Colour Control the Harmonic Palette
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Frank Morley Fletcher’s ‘Palette Control’ is based on musical metrics of major keys and minor keys 5-3-4 and 4-3-5. https://www.barnstonestudios.com/blog/oil-painting-and-palette-control-newsletter-from-1979/
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Recommended Reading
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Chaos and Classicism
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https://www.guggenheim.org/arts-curriculum/resource-unit/chaos-and-classicism
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Keeping It Real
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Realism as an art movement had nothing to do with the point-and-shoot realism that is being put forth from the late 20th century Realist Movement. The realism of revolutionary France was more about the people that the art. The major painters of Realism in its original form were: Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet, Honoré Daumier, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille…