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
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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Vasari Oil Paint Review
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PROSPECTUS:_Like the painter’s apprentice, Vasari still carefully handcraft their colours in small amounts and even fill every tube by hand. These traditional methods of paintmaking ensure the purity of colour and lush consistency, enabling Vasari to impart the secret of the Old Masters to the modern-day painter. Working with only the best oil and the
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Oil Painting Grounds
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Everything you ever wanted to know about oil painting grounds but were afraid to ask. What are the choices, which one is best and why, which is best for me? Tradition ‘Gesso’, also known ‘glue gesso’ or ‘Italian gesso’ is a traditional mix of an animal glue binder (usually rabbit skinned glue, chalk, and white pigment,
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Sennelier Oil Paint Review
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PROSPECTUS:_IN 1887, GUSTAVE SENNELIER, A DEVOTED CHEMIST, ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AS A PURVEYOR OF FINE-ARTISTS’ PAINTS AT 3 QUAI VOLTAIRE FACING THE LOUVRE AND STEPS AWAY FROM L’ECOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS. HAVING THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED THE HISTORY AND USAGE OF PIGMENTS, HE DEVELOPED A DISTINCTIVE PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING OIL COLOURS, FORMULATING PRECISE METHODS FOR MIXING TONES AND FOR
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Rembrandt Oil Paint Review.
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PROSPECTUS:_Rembrandt Artists’ Oil Colors are manufactured to exacting professional quality standards in Apeldoorn, Holland. They respond to the brush with a buttery feel and have a noticeable brilliance and color intensity rarely seen anywhere in the world. Rembrandt Oils are highly durable and are produced with the highest color strength possible, using valuable, costly, pure
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Old Holland Oil Paint Review
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PROSPECTUS:_Old Holland has been making artist colors since 1664, making it one of the oldest continuously operating companies in the art supplies industry. The company is known for uncompromising adherence to traditional techniques and standards. All color making is done by hand, and all processes are controlled by artists. Pigments are ground in stone rather
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RUBLEV OIL PAINT REVIEW
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PROSPECTUS:_Rublev claims to use natural and historical pigments like those used by the old masters. They also claim that they make them as they did before modern oil colors—without additives. Rublev Artists Oils are formulated to maintain the unique characteristics of each pigment in oil. What you find in each tube is unique due to