Sanguine drawing of three quarters view of two figures on tan toned paper. One figure is facing forwards, and the other one is facing backwards.

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Sanguine drawing of three quarters view of two figures on tan toned paper. One figure is facing forwards, and the other one is facing backwards.

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.

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Sanguine drawing of three quarters view of two figures on tan toned paper. One figure is facing forwards, and the other one is facing backwards.

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Current Schedule

July 3-4

Holiday Break

No figure drawing sessions on Friday and Saturday, July 3 and 4, 2026

Every Wednesday

Long Pose Drawing Session

Drawing from nude or costumed model, long pose
10:30am – 1:30pm

Every Friday

Short Pose Drawing Session

Drawing from nude model, short and/or long pose
10:30am – 1:30pm

Every First Saturday of the Month

Saturday Drawing Session

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

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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.

  • MAX MELDRUM_Graman Inson_TonalisM

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    MAX MELDRUM_1875 – 1955 Max Meldrum (1875-1955), artist and teacher, studied at the NGV School before beginning work as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. He won the NGV Travelling Scholarship in 1900 and painted in Paris and Brittany for thirteen years before returning to Melbourne. In 1916 he founded an art school in the city,…

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    Hugh Ramsay Hugh Ramsay (25 May 1877 – 5 March 1906) Australian Ramsay was born in Glasgow, Scotland, he moved with his family to Melbourne in 1878. He joined classes at the National Gallery of Victoria at age 16 under Lindsay Bernard Halland became one of the most brilliant students ever trained there. Ramsay went to Europe in September…

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    The MACCHIAIOLI

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    THE MACCHIAIOLI The Macchiaioli was a group of Italian Painters active in Tuscany the second half of the 19thc. They deviated from the antiquated conventions taught by the Italian art academies and did much of their painting outdoors to capture natural light, shade, and colour. This practice relates the Macchiaioli to the French Impressionists who came to prominence…

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    Munich school_Wilhelm Trubner

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    Wilhelm Trübner_Extremely important transitional Munich School Painter influenced by Courbet and Manet. Or the Munich School was already under the spell of Velasquez, Vermeer, and Chardin. We hope we have helped you to appreciate the Munich School Painters and to see how much more depth, expression, and liveliness their paintings exhibited then those of the…

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    Munich School_Lovis Corinth

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    Lovis Corinth _21 July 1858_17 July 1925_His mature work realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism. We like Lovis Corinth mid-stream transitioning these two movements. Corinth was born Franz Heinrich Louis on 21 July 1858 in Tapiau, in Prussia. In 1876 he went to study painting in the Academy of Konigsberg.   In 1880 he traveled to Munich, which rivaled…

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    GEORGE DE FOREST BRUSH

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    George de Forest Brush_September 28, 1855_April 24, 1941_Grew up in Danbury Connecticut attended the National Academy of Design in New York and studied with Jean-Léon Gérome at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where Abbott H. Thayer was also a student. George de Forest is for the most part Academically to slick for are taste and his figures look…

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