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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
Mentored Session with Michael Mentler
Drawing from Casts, no live model
10:30am – 1:30pm
Cost: $30 per session
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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G.R.A.V.(I.)T.Y. INCIDENTS
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INCIDENTS along the boundary of the enclosure let the draughtsman know something structurally significant has occurred. An INCIDENT is taking place that requires a determination from the draughtsman as to its cause. These Incidents result from Intersections, Interlocks, Insertions, Intervals or a combination thereof. They need to be understood by the draftsman; they describe how
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PAINTERS HISTORY OVERLOOKED
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The layman is often baffled that some of the painters they most admire seem to have fallen through the cracks of history. It is beyond their comprehension that painters who could paint so realistically could so easily be dismissed. They are agas when they also learn that if any of these ‘stalwarts’ made it to
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A COUPLE OF OBSERVATIONS ABOUT OBSERVATION
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Observational skills are an essential aspect but not the most paramount by far. The master draughtsman never draws what they see, they draw what they know to look for. The master draughtsman doesn’t shade to turn form, they SHAPE it with planes to create form. They don’t copy nature they interpret it. Their skill-sets are
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Portrait drawing process by Michael Mentler
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Michael Mentler is the master behind the Society of Figurative Arts, subscribe to his YouTube channel for drawing process videos and tips!
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THE TRINITY OF MASTERY
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Core Academic Training There are three areas where the apprentice has the most to learn. They are: drawing from life, drawing masterworks, and drawing from imagination. The apprentice must include a third of each in their studies as the world’s great masters have done for over six centuries. Practitioners in past centuries studied and analyzed
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ARC AND ‘CONSERVATIVE REALISM’
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Being an advocate of skill-based training and having spent several decades in the pursuit of those skills I am diametrically opposed to those who would purposefully try to dumb-down as many non-Socratic thinkers as possible in the name of ‘art’. The first glaring problem with ARC’s philosophy is that they have none. Philosophy would denote a