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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
February 20-22, 2026
3-day Figure Drawing Master Lab
9:00am – 4:00pm
Location: San Antonio, TX
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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Architectonic Form
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In the basic Renaissance Tradition, a point is a line on end, a line is the edge of a plane, and the plane is the skin on a form. In this system there is no such thing as shapes only planes which are always part of a form unit. We first visualize the form units
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Our Library
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The Venerable Society of Fine Arts and Artists maintains one of the most extensive libraries of books on and about art in the western world. Resource number one: Amazon Resource number two: Yale’s Compilation of Resources Resource number three: Yale Resource number four: The Smithsonian Resource number five: Stanford Resource number six: My Modern Met
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The Barnstone Banter
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Myron Barnstone taught in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania for over 35 years. He single-handedly keep Classical drawing traditions alive and well for many hundreds of students. The following link will take you to a few of Myron’s very insightful newsletters: Barnstone Newsletters
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Humble Pie
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“It has been said that the criticism of art by an artist is never anything else than an apology for his own work. This is so far true that the expression of opinions definitely held must be the expression of ideals consciously striven for, but I should be sorry to have it thought that my
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Classical Aesthetics
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https://faculty.mtsac.edu/cmcgruder/index.html (500 B.C.E. – 400 C.E.) Aesthetics is a modern term. It entered the philosophical vocabulary in the eighteenth century. Art and its effects attracted attention of thinkers virtually from the beginning of Western thought. Art is so closely associated with the central cultural and religious forms of life in the classical world that it was
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Brain Food
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Unlike a camera the draugthsman has a brain. We see with are brain via our eyes.