BACAA/Tony Ryder Master Residency Figure Drawing Program-2024

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Only 3 more spots remaining

Figure Drawing in Pencil

PLEASE REGISTER NOW TO HOLD YOUR SPOT
DAtes: AUGUST 12-16, 2024

Sign up for both drawing and painting workshops, receive a discount.
Painting Dates: August 19-September 6, 2024 (15 days)
(In the BACAA Studio from the live model)

Hours: 11:00-5:15 p.m. daily excepting weekend.
Lunch: 1:30 p.m -2:00 p.m.

Figure Drawing in Pencil:
Medium: graphite and white chalk pencils on tinted drawing paper.

Course description:
 Fundamentals of academic figure drawing. An introduction to the manual, procedural, and analytical techniques of drawing applied to the figure.

 Schedule:
A five-day workshop. Tony demonstrates the drawing process each day from the beginning of class until lunch break (2.25 hrs.) He works with students individually during the afternoon session (3 hrs.) This is a "long pose" drawing method. Students work on one drawing all week. After lunch the model resumes the demo pose and holds it for the rest of the day, with the usual breaks.

Form, Light, and the Human Figure:
This drawing workshop is for students wishing to develop an understanding of the classical tradition of figure drawing. The human figure is an infinitely rich subject. It has been said that "If you can learn to draw and paint the figure, you can draw and paint anything."  For centuries artists have trained themselves by studying the complex form of the body, and its associated pattern of light and shade. Participants in this five-day workshop will be introduced to a refined, articulate drawing style. The focus will be on patience, craft, observation, and understanding of drawing principles. Students will learn a practical drawing method that serves as a framework in which to study the elements of drawing. Drawings are built up methodically through a succession of linear and tonal stages.  Each stage in particular embodies and exemplifies one or more universal aesthetic principle: wholeness, simplicity, connection, fluidity, dynamism, volume, structure, organization, and finally the phenomenon of visual experience itself. 

Tony Ryder is an able and energetic instructor with nearly forty years experience teaching drawing from life.  His unique instructional style combines careful personal attention to each student with abundant class drawing demonstrations.  He is generous with information and supportive of the students.  He loves to draw and at the same time explain the process of drawing to his students.  He studied for six years in New York and in France with the renowned oil painter Ted Seth Jacobs.  He has taught classes at the Art Student's League of New York, the New York Academy of Figurative Art, and workshops at the Gage Academy of Art, Studio Incaminati and other schools in the United States and France.  His book The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing, published by Watson-Guptill, was released in 2000 and has since sold over 75,000 copies.  His paintings and drawings are in many private collections.  If you wish to see his work on line, please visit www.tonyryder.com.

Drawing COST: $1,050.00 (5 Days)
Discount if you sign up for both Drawing and Painting ($2900)

All tuition fees are nonrefundable and nontransferable

Registration form/Terms and conditions must be completed and agreed to, or signed prior and emailed prior to attendance

Pay by Cashiers Check, Bank Bill Pay, Zelle®, Credit Card, or PayPal
We do not accept Personal Checks.
We do not accept cash.
Partial Payments are not accepted.
Pay by Zelle® at info@bacaa.org

Pay now via PayPal or Credit Card

All tuition is non-refundable and non-transferable. 

Please send checks and packets to the BACAA BUSINESS ADDRESS:

969 G Edgewater Blvd
Foster City, CA 94404|
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BACAA STUDIO ADDRESS

345 Quarry Rd
San Carlos, CA 94070

Contact: info@bacaa.org
650-832-1544

BACAA/Tony Ryder Master Residency Figure Painting Workshop-2024

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Tony Ryder Master Residency Figure Painting in Oil
Sign up for both drawing and painting workshops, receive a discount.

A very rare opportunity to study extended figure painting with Tony

This workshop was quite popular please enroll to hold your spot.

Drawing Dates: August 12-16, 2024 (5 days)
Painting Dates: August 19- September 6, 2024 (15 days)
(In the BACAA Studio from the live model)

Hours: 11:00-5:15 p.m.
Lunch: 1:30 p.m -2:15 p.m.

Medium: oil on panel

Course description:
Fundamentals of academic figure painting. An introduction to the manual, procedural, and analytical techniques of oil painting applied to the figure.

Schedule:
A three-week workshop. Tony demonstrates the painting process each day from the beginning of class until lunch break (2.25 hrs.) He works with students individually during the afternoon session (3 hrs.) This is a "long pose" painting method. Students work on one painting for three weeks. After lunch the model resumes the demo pose and holds it for the rest of the day, with the usual breaks.

Non-symbolic painting, also known as form painting, represents what we actually see with our eyes, not substituting ideograms, like present day ‘emojis’. In learning to paint non-symbolically we develop an understanding of the building blocks of visual experience: form and the light by means of which we see this form.

Through the practice of non-symbolic painting we become aware that, in all of nature generally, and in the human figure and portrait particularly, there is a specific kind of formal structure. Among traditionally trained painters this formal structure has been known for centuries. We who practice non-symbolic painting from life study this knowledge. 

Form painting is a way of painting that is one with this understanding of form and light. It is a methodical way of processing and representing our perception of the appearance of the model. Through the agency of light, a great quantity of information radiates from the model. In form painting we learn how to format and sequentialize this information and bring it into our paintings one brushstroke at a time. 

In this figure painting workshop Tony demonstrates form painting on a toned ground, beginning with a medium-value ochre brush drawing. He demonstrates the block-in and the refinement of the drawing. He shows and explains how he sees, mixes and applies colors. He explains and demonstrates the logic of the method of painting from dark to light. He describes in great detail the forms of the body, their fluid shapes, convex surfaces and how they fit together. He shows how he builds the painting from the drawing up, painting each form from dark to light, unified by the perception of the organization of the form and the coherent action of the light.

Cost: $2350 (15 Days)
Discount if you sign up for both Drawing & Painting ($2900)

All tuition fees are non refundable and non transferable

Registration form/Terms and conditions must be completed and agreed to, or signed prior and emailed prior to attendance

Pay by Cashiers Check, Bank Bill Pay, Zelle®, Credit Card, or PayPal
We do not accept Personal Checks.
We do not accept cash.
Partial Payments are not accepted.
Pay by Zelle® at info@bacaa.org

Pay now via PayPal or credit card

Portrait Painting

Combined Drawing and Painting

Partial Payments are not accepted.

We do not accept cash.

All tuition is non-refundable and non-transferable. 

Please send checks and packets to the BACAA BUSINESS ADDRESS:

969G Edgewater Blvd, 106
Foster City, CA 94404 

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BACAA STUDIO ADDRESS

345 Quarry Rd
San Carlos, CA 94070

Contact: info@bacaa.org
650-832-1544