INSTRUCTOR > Tony Ryder

Tony Ryder
Teacher and Mentor
Taught yearly workshops at BACAG 2001-2005
Is one of the most extraordinary draftsmen, and one of the most gifted artists of our times. His knowledge is vast and his paintings and drawings are exquisitely executed.
Tony is the author of one of the best-selling books on figure drawing.
The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing was published in 2000.

He has received exhibition prizes and fellowships from the Salmagundi Club and Art Students League in NYC, and from the La Napoule Foundation (France). Tony is the founder of the Ryder Studio School in Santa Fe, NM.

Since 1988, he has taught at the New York Academy of Art, the Art Students League in NYC, the Gage Academy, BACAG, and across the United States in a variety of private schools and organizations.

He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, and went to art school at the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Art Students League (NYC). From 1983 to 1989 he studied oil painting and drawing from life in New York City and in France with master artist and teacher Ted Seth Jacobs.

In 1985 Ted asked him to substitute teach his figure drawing class at the New York Academy of Art. Since that time, he has taught life drawing and painting at the Art Student's League of New York, and the Seattle Academy of Fine Art, and in many other schools around the country, and in France, to countless students of all levels.

"The things I learned from Ted are a priceless heritage, a truly sublime, highly informed and culturally refined approach to portraiture and the study of the figure, rooted in a continuous teaching tradition reaching back to the time of the Renaissance."

Teacher Mentor Taught at BACAG 2001-2005 provided the inspiration that lead to the creation of Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier. Continues to support and encourage the progression of the contemporary classical movement.
To see a detailed list of his exhibits


Visit Tony's website at http://www.tonyryder.com/
INSTRUCTOR > Ted Seth Jacobs

Ted Seth Jacobs Master Residency Program

Ted Seth Jacobs world-renowned draftsman, painter, and art teacher, with more than 60 years of professional practice behind him. He is the author of two books on the arts, Light for the Artist (1986) and Drawing with an Open Mind (1985).
Ted Jacobs taught at the Art Students League 1946, he was one the founding faculties in New York Academy of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology. In 1987 founded his school Ecole Albert Defois Vihiers, France

In 2004, he taught a series of lectures at Studio Incamminati, in Philadelphia, PA. His lectures were about representing human structure and action. He is the author of A Dictionary of Human Form. He has had more than sixty one-man exhibitions, in New York City, Boston, Washington DC, Biarritz and elsewhere. He has received countless notable commissions in all genres: portrait, mural, landscape, and still-life, and received numerous awards and prizes for his work. He is renowned for his strong influence on two generations of artist-draftsmen, and artist-teachers, including: Anthony Ryder, Randolph Melick, Will Cotton, Jacob Collins, and Michael Grimaldi, Andrew Reiss, Jerry Weiss, Dennis Cheaney, Michelle Tully, Timothy Stotz among many others. Ted Jacobs' studio-residence in Les Cerqueux sous Passavant, France is listed on the national registry of museums, and houses much of his work from 1985 onwards.

Ted Seth Jacobs
Mes IllusionsLes Cerqueux sous Passavant
49310 France
Tel/ (0)2 41 59 57 55
Email/ tedseth77@aol.com
Website : http://www.tedsethjacobs.com/
Website/ www.bwwsociety.org/gallery/tedsethjacobs.htm
Website/ www.artrenewal.org/articles/2002/Dictionary/form1.asp
NB/ All work done only from life or imagination. No photographic aids ever employed.
Born 11th June 1927
Education
1943 Art Diploma, Long Beach High School NY.
1943 Studied at The Art Students League of New York (ASL)
Instructors/ Dumond, Zorach, Reilly, Sternberg.
Painting, Drawing, Sculpture.
INSTRUCTOR > Michael Grimaldi

Michael Grimaldi
Returns to teach at BACAA 2008

Michael Grimaldi has studied painting and drawing at the Art Student's League of NY, The National Academy, The New York Studio School, The Ecole Albert Defois, The Water Street Atelier and independent studies in anatomy and dissection at Facultad Medicina, Argentina.

Mr. Grimaldi has taught figure and portrait drawing and painting at The School of Visual Arts, NY; The National Academy, NY; The Seattle Academy of Fine Arts, WA; The Water Street Atelier, NY; Studio Incamminati, PA; Studio 126, NY, and at the Grand Central Academy of Art, NY which he co-founded, Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier, Belmont CA.

Exhibitions include: Arcadia Gallery NY, Arnot Museum, Forbes Magazine Collection, Forum Gallery NY, National Academy Museum NY, The John Pence Gallery CA, and the De Young Museum CA.

Awards include: The Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant (1993), Stacey Foundation Grant (1998 & 1999), The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (1999 & 2002), an Artist in Residence Fellowship from The Forbes Foundation (2002), and The Alma Schapiro Prize: Affiliated Fellowship, American Academy in Rome (2007).Michael Grimaldi's website: http://www.michaelgrimaldi.net/

Workshop:
Michael Grimaldi: March 31 - April 11, 2008

Website:
http://www.michaelgrimaldi.net/
INSTRUCTOR > Juliette Aristides

Juliette Aristides
Returns to teach at BACAA

8 Day Portrait Painting Workshop July 7-15 2008

Portraiture offers us an invaluable glimpse of an individual at a particular juncture in time. We encounter not just an idea, theme, or symbol, but a person, an authentic expression of someone who walked the earth as a distinct human life. As was said by author Norbert Schneider, no other genre of painting is capable of transmitting such an intimate sense of lived presence over so great a distance of time. Delve into portrait painting with this eight day intensive workshop. Working from life and from the masters, you follow traditional ideas and techniques of portrait painting as you develop vital tools for creating skillful portrait paintings. You explore varied working methods through master copies, lectures and group discussions, spending a portion of each day working on topical issues such as drawing, composition, value, color and color theory, as you study the way the master artists of the past have handled such challenges.Over the eight days, you also create one longer painting that develops from drawing to underpainting through full color. Class discussions, slide lectures and instructor demonstrations focus on building skills for successful independent work and also illuminate ways to solve problems when you return to your own studio.

Juliette Aristides is a gifted, passionate, intellectually stimulating artist who seeks to understand and convey the human spirit through art. Juliette teaches in the Beauxs Arts Classical tradition. Juliette Aristides spent ten years acquiring a rigorous education on the principles of classical realism. She began her studies in 1988 under Myron Barnstone in Design Systems. She continued to study drawing and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, then at The Atelier in Minneapolis in the tradition of Richard Lack. This work was followed two years of instruction at the National Academy in New York with Jacob Collins, while also receiving instruction from Carlos Madrid. Juliette spent a year working with a small group of students at Jacob Collins' studio prior to becoming a founding member of the Water Street Studio in Brooklyn, New York
Author of Classical Drawing Atelier, Watson-Guptill, 2006
Classical Painting Atelier, Watson-Guptill, 2008
Workshop:
Website:


Juliette Aristides portrait demo of Melissa at BACAA 2007
INSTRUCTOR > Dennis Cheaney

Dennis Cheaney has studied at the Ecole Albert Defois with the eminent artist and portraitist Ted Seth Jacobs, in New York at the Water Street Atelier with the noted artists Jacob Collins and Michael Grimaldi and at the Art Students’ League of NY with Deane Keller. He carries a MFA (1998) from the New York Academy of Art in New York City and a BA (1995) in Mathematics from the University of Southern California.
Mr. Cheaney has taught drawing and painting from life at the New England Realist Art Center, MA, which he founded in 2003, and figure drawing workshops and still life painting at the Copley Society of art in Boston. Dennis is scheduled to teach classes at the Academy duCret in New Jersey as well as at the New York Academy of Art in 2008.
Dennis’ paintings have earned him several awards, including a Director’s Choice Award from the Copley Society (2006), the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for figure painting (2000) and an Andy Warhol Foundation Scholarship (1997 & 1998) to the NYAA. Dennis has exhibited in Boston, San Francisco, New York City, Texas, Canada and France. He is represented by the Copley Society of art and the Brigham Galleries on Nantucket.
Dennis Cheaney’s website: http://www.dennischeaney.com/
INSTRUCTOR > Dan Thompson

Dan Thompson teaches at Parsons, The New York Academy and the Grand Central Academy in New York. He holds degrees in fine art from the New York Academy of Art and the prestigious Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C.

In 2001, Mr. Thompson was awarded the Grand Prize for a self-portrait entered in the American Society of Portrait Artists competition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Additional honors include two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants, The Stobart Foundation Grant and the Walter Erlebacher Award from the New York Academy of Art.
self portrait in oil

Workshop:
Dan Thompson: 9-13, 2008
Website:
http://www.danthompsonart.com/
INSTRUCTOR > Jon deMartin

Jon DeMartin taught at BACAA summer 2007

Jon received his B.F.A. from Pratt Institute, NY. He studied with Michael Aviano, Gustav Rehberger, Nelson Shanks and independently with Daniel Greene. Additionally, he trained in cast drawing with Millet Andrejevic and Edward Schmidt. He is represented by Hirschl & Adler, New York; John Pence Gallery, San Francisco; and The Classical Gallery, Alexandria VA. He is also an instructor at the Art Students League, NY; the Lyme Academy, CT and the New York Academy.


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INSTRUCTOR > Jane Paul Angelhart

Jane Paul Angelhart is an accomplished watercolor artist. She currently resides and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has won numerous awards and is in collections nationwide. She has painted over 350 portraits for appreciative clients. She is a member of watercolor societies and of the Portrait Society of America.

Artist statement: Painting a portrait in watercolor is a lot like raising a child. It is a tight rope act, an incredibly fine balance between letting the vibrant transparent colors grow and bloom in unexpected directions

Workshop:
Jane Anglehart: September 22 - 26, 2008

Website:
http://www.angelhart-portraits.com/
INSTRUCTOR > Darren Kingsley

Darren Kinglsey studied at Studio Incamminati Professional Program with Nelson Shanks, he has studied with Michael Grimaldi, Anthony Ryder, Robert Liberace and Ted Seth Jacobs. Prior to his arrival at Studio Incamminati, Darren studied at the Art Students' League in New York, and spent four years at The Atelier in Minneapolis, where he also served as a drawing and painting instructor.
Darren is a member of Studio Incamminati’s Professional Program faculty and has conducted a workshop in Form Painting with the Figure with fellow instructor, Stephen Early. His teaching experience also includes the Portfolio Programs Figure Drawing & Painting and Figure Drawing in Graphite as well teaching in the Nelson Shanks Intensive and Advanced Painting Workshops at Studio Incamminati and the Armory Arts Center workshops in West Palm Beach, FL.
In the year 2000, he won the prestigious American Society of Classical Realism Scholarship, and was a finalist in American Artist Magazine’s Realism Today competition. He participated in the Studio Incamminati group exhibitions at the Union League Club of Philadelphia; the Chauncey Center, Princeton, NJ; Daylesford Abbey, Paoli, PA; and the annual Philadelphia Open Studio Tour exhibition at Studio Incamminati. His work is in the collection of the Union League of Philadelphia and Studio Incamminati as well as many private collections including the collection of Nelson and Leona Shanks, Dr. & Mrs. Allen Kwon, Mr. Christopher Cimarusti, Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Paneyko and the Larry and Anne Hall Collection. Darren is represented by the John Pence Gallery in San Francisco.
INSTRUCTOR > Paul McCormack

Paul McCormack received his formal art training at duCret School of the Arts, where he later became a faculty member. Sharing his knowledge on the fine art of portraiture, he has also been on the faculties of the New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, the Somerset Art Association, and the Newark Museum.

Mr. McCormack's twenty five years of experience in painting portraits has earned him national recognition as a fine artist. His heart felt dedication to his art has earned him representation among some of the top portrait artists in the world at "Portraits Inc." in New York City.

In 2001, Paul was invited to exhibit with some of the worlds most legendary artists such as Chuck Close, Lucian Freud, David Hockney and Odd Nerdrum in Identities: Contemporary Portraiture a group exhibit at the NJ center for Visual Arts. Mr. McCormack is also an elected member of the Allied Artists of America, the NJ Watercolor Society and the Hudson Valley Art Association. Throughout the years, he has been the recipient of many awards.

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INSTRUCTOR > Linda Dulaney Ongoing Weekly Drawing and Painting Classes

Linda Dulaney-Founder Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier

My interest in portraiture began when I was very young. I continued to develop this passion by drawing portraits. In 1996 I discoverd Tony Ryder a contemporary realist master who became my mentor and teacher.
Tony Ryder is the author of
The Artists Complete Guide To Figure Drawing 2000

From 1998 until 2006 I studied with Tony Ryder, I attended various yearly workshops that he taught. In 2001 Tony encouraged me to establish Bay Area Classical Artist Guild. From 2001-2005 Tony taught at BACAG here in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Jensen Family Portrait Painting 2003~ Private Collection
In late 2005, Tony encouraged me to open an art school where I could share the methods and techniques that I had learned. In 2006, I founded the Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier. This year in March 2008 I will resume teaching students drawing and painting from the live model at our BACAA studio in Belmont California. I am currently studying with Ted Seth Jacobs Master artist I've completed studying the figure in during the 6 week figure drawing program. Now I am in the 6 week portrait drawing program. It is a most rewarding experience studying with Ted he has opened new horizons for me and I am seeing the figure in a whole new organic way.


In 2004 I was asked to paint the Portrait of Dr. Leslie Holmes former senior pastor of the historic church of First Presbyterian Church Pittsburgh PA. My portrait painting of Dr. Leslie Holmes was unveiled November 5, 2006 at the First Presbyterian Church Pittsburgh PA. In fall of 2007 American Artist Magazine featured a 12 page article about BACAA and my drawings of self portrait ,JR and Bridgitte were published in the article. My portrait Drawing of JR and my self portrait were published in the Portrait Society of America Art of the Portrait issue Jan 2008 Art. My portrait drawing of Walter is printed in the PSA Third Quarter 2006 issue of The Art of The Portrait Newsletter. My portrait commissions are in many private collections all over the US.





Linda painting study of Melissa 03~ Linda Portrait painting of Pastor Leslie Holmes 06~ Linda drawing of Mona 08




Linda Drawing of Matt from life 4/08 Linda Drawing of Bridgett 3/08

Member of Portrait Society of America
http://www.portraitsociety.org/
Former Executive Director of ARC http://www.artrenewal.org/
Sola Society of Local Artists http://www.blogger.com/www.svlocalartists.org
Art of Linda Dulaney http://linda.dulaney.com/
My favorite art gallery is the John Pence Gallery San Francisco
Teacher and mentor Tony Ryder & Ted Seth Jacobs
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