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ATELIER

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024 - MAY 2, 2025

CONTACT:
505-603-9980

celeste@theryderstudio.com

SESSION III 

02.03.25 - 03.14.25

INTENSIVE PORTRAIT PAINTING

SESSION IV 

03.24.25 - 05.2.25

FIGURE DRAWING & PAINTING

TUITION ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE

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The Ryder Studio school, established in 2007, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, offers classes in drawing and painting from life in a naturalistic style that unites classical drawing with clear, brilliant color and light.

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Our yearly cycle of courses consists of three, two-week Summer Workshops, in figure drawing, portrait drawing and portrait painting, and from September to April, a comprehensive, 24-week long life drawing and painting Atelier, open to full and part-time enrollment.

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Our teaching has its origins in the philosophy and techniques of Ted Seth Jacobs, revered draftsman, painter, teacher and author, with whom Anthony and Celeste Ryder studied from 1983 to 1989. It is suitable for beginning, intermediate and advanced students, ages sixteen and up. 


Principal instructor:
Anthony Ryder 

Associate instructors:
Celeste Simon Ryder, John Reger and M. Tobias Hall

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Class portrait by JWR
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Class demonstration
Celeste delivering a mini-demo
Collette and Tahira
Kathleen drawing Melanie
Drawing boards during a break

OUR SCHOOL

OUR CLASSES

Classes meet six hours a day, Monday through Friday, from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm and from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm. Students and instructors paint and draw from the live model. Frequent demonstrations. Detailed instruction. 

Gioia Tama. 1993
Pottery Class
Blue Angel by Anthony J. Ryder
Ishan Vernalis by Anthony J. Ryder
Call to Consciousness by Anthony J. Ryder
Figure drawing demonstration by Anthony J. Ryder
Dan, detail, by M. Tobias Hall
Portrait of a young man by John Reger
Canvas Painter

OUR BELIEF

We are animated by a sincere and abiding devotion to the teachings of our instructor, Ted Seth Jacobs, one of a very few true masters, through whom the centuries' old traditions of painting and drawing have survived into the modern age.

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Ted Seth Jacobs (1927-2019) with his class at
The Art Students League of New York, 1981.

Artist's Models Needed.
Contact Celeste: celeste@theryderstudio.com


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