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
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
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Upcoming Labs & Workshops
Physical Materials
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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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Munich school_hugo Kauffmann
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Hugo Wilhelm Kauffmann_7 August 1844_30 December 1915 Munich School German Painter. He obviously liked to hang out in taverns and certainly seemed to have been influenced by the Dutch Genre Painters notably Franz Hals. Kauffmann is known mainly for his folksy genre paintings, often set in taverns. Once again these paintings were not highly thought of…
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MUNICH SCHOOL_ VOLTZ&BRAITH
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A Prominent member of the 19thc Munich School Painters, Johann Friedrich Voltz, Born 31 October 1817 Died 25 June 1886. In 1834, he entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. While in Munich, Fritz studied the Dutch Masters at the Alte Pinakothek. Works by Carl Spizweg, and Eduard Schleich, caught his attention. After seeing the…
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MUNICH SCHOOL_WILHELM VON DIEZ
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Albrecht Christoph Wilhelm von Diez Born 17 January 1839, Bayreut_ Died 25 February 1907, Munich. Wilhelm was a vital member of the Munich School Painters in the 19thc. In 1855, he attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich for a short time under Karl von Piloty. He was mostly self-taught, which helps to explain…
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Munich School_POLYCHRONIS LEMBESIS
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Polychronis Lembesis was born on 18 December 1848 on the island of Salmina, located near Athens. As a little boy, he spent much time in the monastery of Faneromeni, painting Byzantine icons. He initially studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and, in 1875, continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Munich.…
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The Goodall Artistic Legacy
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Starting with Edward Goodall 1794-1870, there is a linage of Goodall Artists in England until 1982. Edward Goodall was born near Leeds, Yorkshire, where his Quaker uncle raised him. He went to London in his early teens and began as an apprentice to a printer and learned the art of steel line engraving. He became Edward…
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19thc french academy_Théodore Ralli
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The latter half of the 19thc and first quarter of the 20thc diverse things happening in different parts of the Globe. Here we have a Painter trained in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts French Academic manner which painted things that looked like things. They were primarily recorders of Nature. Painting subjects largely dictated by the government.…