Atelier is the French word for “workshop”, and in English is used principally for the workshop of an artist in the fine or decorative arts. The current “Atelier method” is a form of fine art …

The aim of the Ryder Studio is two-fold: to teach basic painting and drawing skills, and to impart a traditional aesthetic sensibility based on principles derived from nature, long known in the history of fine …

Our minds play tricks on us.  We rarely paint what we see.  Most often we paint an unconscious projection of incorrect ideas about what we think we see.  Ironically, people sometimes call this latter process …

 One of the most (if not the most) important things for realist painters tounderstand is light direction.  The reason why we need to know about the direction of the light is that it determines the …

Portrait of Adriana Cigarroa 2007 Oil on Canvas 16×14 A note on grounds: In painting parlance the ‘ground’ is the primer, sometimes called gesso, applied to the panel or canvas on which we paint.  Painters …

The term ‘form’, as we apply it to our work as painters, refers to the things, all the things, that interact with light to produce the world of visual effects. It’s everything that we see …