6. Oil Painting the Model in Color

Landscape Workshop

Landscape Drawing
Workshop #93

August 11 - 15, 2008
Toronto
Instructors: David Gluck, Kate Stone

Now you can learn to create beautiful studies from nature using classical drawing methods and a variety of dry media, such as graphite, chalk, charcoal, and ink. This five-day landscape intensive will take you outdoors to study nature directly from life ó just the way the old masters did it.

Still Life Painting
Workshop # 94
August 18 - 29, 2008
Toronto
Instructor: Juan Martinez

The Angel Academy of Art, Florence, is also pleased to announce its annual Summer Workshops for 2009:

The Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier was established to further the practice and education of painters working in the Classical Realist tradition. BACAA is committed to upholding the highest standards of art instruction by providing opportunities that include:

• Drawing and painting workshops taught by master artists
  
• Open studio long-pose sessions for drawing and painting casts and live models
  
• Gallery and museum visits and seminars to further study the works of old and new masters
  
• One-on-one critiques based on Tony Ryder's methods in an intimate, atelier setting
  
• Support and collaboration of student artists

Open Studio Sessions
Portrait Drawing and Painting
Since 1998, artist Linda Dulaney has studied with Anthony Ryder, author of The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing.. Today, she introduces and teaches Ryder's contemporary realism methods in BACAA's open studio portrait drawing and painting sessions with live models and casts. Drawing and Painting sessions are available on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays for 4 hours in clusters of four to eight sessions. Work with exquisite natural north light in a studio with high windows and a 20 ft. ceiling. Ryder, who taught with BACAA in the studio for five years, finds the space to, "...have the most beautiful natural light to paint and draw from. It is the light of Ingres".

Ted Seth Jacobs
Master Artist at BACAA -2007/2008:

Don't miss this once in a life time opportunity to study with Ted in California.

BACAA in the San Francisco Bay Area is very proud to announce Ted Seth Jacobs, Master Residency Program for two 6-week sessions November 5th 2007 and January 14th 2008. This Master Program is designed for advanced artists and serious students. Follow the light and learn the Style of Human Form in the Figure and Portrait Likeness and Structure program with world-renowned artist Ted Seth Jacobs. A unique knowledge base not available from any other instructor. Ted will transfer and exchange his knowledge with each student. The transference method requires a psychological dimension too. The idea that the student can learn and progress must be reinforced frequently. Ted enables each student and promotes a can-do attitude. Author of, ìLight for the Artist "(1986) and "Drawing with an Open Mind"(1985).

Ted Seth Jacobs Residency Program:

Style of Human Form: Drawing the Human Body-Six Weeks(Novemer 5-December 14) Registration 2007
Ted's Dictionary of Human Form

Style of Human Form: Portrait Drawing- Six Weeks(January 14-February 22) Registration 2008

Upcoming Workshops 2007-2008:

Workshop Location: BACAA Atelier Sessions are held at Barrett Hall Belmont California

DARREN KINGSLEY-JUNE 4-14 2007

9 DAY PORTRAIT DRAWING IN PENCIL

The 9 day workshop will sequentially present concepts of visual perception and their applications to drawing the human form from direct observation.
The objectives of this workshop are to push drawing skills, to increase the ability to see relative values within the figure and to learn to 'plan ahead' with specific goals to accomplish at different times during the drawing.
This workshop will address the principles that are essential to transform abstract flat shapes into fully dimensional form and create a sense of light on the figure. The student will focus on drawing with a full range of values and develop the ability to make accurate and subtle value calibrations. The focus will be on structure, anatomy, proportion, light direction, edge conditions, abstract movements through the figure, compositon, and an understanding of form.

"Dan knowledge is so vast and thorough that it would be hard to pin any one subject down. He is an inspiring teacher and his knowledge of structural anatomy and the application to visual/optical drawing is awesome (not a day goes by that I don't feel like I've learned something, by proxy, from him via one of our shared students). He is also a brilliant color theorist and would be terrific for a painting workshop as well as drawing." - Michael Grimaldi

Drawing and Painting the human form is a daunting task. The complexity of the forms of the face must be built upon a sense of the body's pose and character. Gesture and its fundamental influence over construction will be addressed through a series of poses, The workshop will conclude with a longer pose.

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.

"Jon is absolutely one of the best teachers around. His ability to deconstruct, reconstruct and conceptually understand the figure is unmatched. A very strong teacher and excellent for beginner, intermediate and advanced students." - Michael Grimaldi

Jon deMartin 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. SYLLABUS

• Gesture, short pose drawing:Rhythm, analysis of beauty and the expressive line
  
• Short pose drawing:Diagrammatic & Structural lines for figure construction (Linear massing)
  
• Short pose drawing:Universal proportions of the figure- skeletal landmarks of head & figure
  
• Short pose drawing:Surface topography & planes. Stopped modeling
  
• Long pose drawing on white paper:Shape recognition, Envelope, block-in and -pointing off-.
  
• Long pose drawing:Ways to check for accuracy. Separating light from shadow (the poster), direction of light source
  
• Long pose drawing:Morphology & Anatomy of the head & figure underlying structure of form.
  
• Long pose drawing:modeling techniques
  
• Long pose drawing:Modeling, local color, Half-tones & rates of curvature, surface topography

EDUCATION
1978 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY B.F.A in Filmmaking
1980-83 Arts StudentÔøΩs League New York City-Gustav Rehberger
1983-87 Michael Aviano Atelier, New York City
1987 New York Academy of Art, Millet Andrejevic and Ted Schmidt
1989 Arts Student's League New York City-Nelson Shanks

Take this opportunity to learn from nationally recognized portrait artist, Paul W. McCormack. Students will be working from a live model as Paul demonstrates all the techniques and principles needed to execute a watercolor portrait with a luminous glow. With demonstrations and lectures given each day students are taken through a step-by-step procedure:watch, listen, learn, and then apply. Combined with individual attention, critiques and hands on instruction (with permission of the student), students will have the opportunity to create a finished portrait under Paul's guidance.

For the exacting realism found in Paul's work, most of day one will focus primarily on the drawing aspect of the portrait. With instruction on the proper use of angles, plumb lines and relative measurement, students will learn how to acquire correct proportions in order to achieve a likeness of the model. As the course continues, this intensive 5-day workshop will then focus on painting. Lectures will include basic color theory, how to see and execute correct value relations, proper treatment of edges, and so much more. Demonstrations in watercolor techniques will include wet into wet, glazing, and Paul's signature dry brush technique. Beginners and advanced students alike will certainly benefit from the experience.

Students will work on a two week pose during this intensive workshop. Michael teaches the steps of constructing a successful and complete painting in oil while cultivating an ability to problem-solve and self-correct. Students will start with the basic elements of design by creating tonal thumbnail sketches. Then each student will study and explore the accurate expression of the gesture, proportion, perspective, anatomical construction and graphic shape while working on a full size, preliminary drawing. This drawing will be transferred to the painting's surface, serving as an armature and allowing students to progress through the painting with exhaustive study of value and color relationships the preliminary stages of building a completed -ebauche-, separate tonal and color sketches, and preliminary drawings, students will advance to the final stages of the painting.