Anthony Ryder

Tony Ryder is a capable and energetic instructor with over forty years experience teaching portrait painting from life. His unique instructional style combines careful personal attention to each student with abundant class demonstrations. He's generous with information and supportive of his students. He loves to paint and to demonstrate the process of painting. 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, 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.

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