04.2010
Michael will be conducting a 5-Day Figure & Form workshop at The Cottonwood Center for the Arts from July, 7th thru July, 11th.  This will an intensive workshop focusing on the "Spirit of the pose" establishing weight, balance and action.  Click on the link below for more information>

Figure & Form Colorado Springs

Michael's new iPhone application is now available.  If features 33 selected pages from his Sketchbook/Journals with scrollable text.

The Sketchbook journals of Michael Mentler A.K.A. The Bone Doctor

Welcome to our new site for The Society of Figurative Arts.  This site will be getting new content daily and we will be b adding to it and making improvements over the next several weeks. We have some exciting things about to happen, including an iphone app. of Michael's (a.k.a. The Bone) sketchbooks. Our first DVD on the skull and muscles of the face should be available in the coming days. Stay tuned a lot of great things are about to happen here.

The SoFA Forums

If you have a love of representational art and a belief in the importance of fundamental skill sets in the creation of works of art then the SoFA Forums may be the place for you to post your works and interface with artist's that have similar goals.