Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier (BACAA) Art Programs
345 Quarry Rd, San Carlos, CA 94070
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Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier (BACAA) Art Programs include drawing from life, painting from life, and making master copies. Students work from a life model, still life setups, and casts, and can also take sculpture programs, portrait drawing and painting, floral painting, plein air painting, life drawing, figure painting, still life painting, and figure drawing. The program also offers drawing in the cast studio, open model sessions, open studios, gallery visits, museum visits, and seminars.
• Schedule: Friday Evening Art and Aperativo Singular Classes run from 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Starting in the mid 1990s, founder Linda Dulaney developed a clear understanding of the style and type of instruction she wanted in an atelier. Linda Dulaney is a lifelong artist whose most influential teachers were Tony Ryder, Ted Seth Jacobs, and Michael Grimaldi, and she currently teaches the ongoing daytime classes at BACAA and taught and mentored students at Stanford University from 2013–2017. The Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier was founded to further the practice and education of artists working in the Old Masters methods in the Classical Realist tradition, with drawing and painting workshops taught by master artists and instructors, long-pose sessions from casts, still life, live models and self-portraits, gallery and museum visits and seminars related to contemporary classical realism, and an atelier setting based on the methods and procedures of Tony Ryder and Ted Seth Jacobs. BACAA activities are open to all artists interested in working in the Classical Realist tradition of the old masters.
Linda Dulaney’s work has received several recognitions, including her drawing of Tiana being a finalist in the ARC 2019 Salon Competition and her drawing of Emily being a finalist in the Salon at the Triton Museum of Art, with Emily exhibited from November 9, 2019 to January 26, 2020. Her portrait painting Feathers received an honorable mention in “The Figure Contemporary” exhibit at the Santa Cruz Art League, and her portrait of Matt was selected and published in a full page in Juliette Aristides’ book “Lessons in Classical Painting.” Linda Dulaney’s drawing copy of Saint John the Evangelist by Guercino was published on the front page of Artist Drawing Magazine in Fall 2015.
Last updated February 14, 2026.
• Schedule: Friday Evening Art and Aperativo Singular Classes run from 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Starting in the mid 1990s, founder Linda Dulaney developed a clear understanding of the style and type of instruction she wanted in an atelier. Linda Dulaney is a lifelong artist whose most influential teachers were Tony Ryder, Ted Seth Jacobs, and Michael Grimaldi, and she currently teaches the ongoing daytime classes at BACAA and taught and mentored students at Stanford University from 2013–2017. The Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier was founded to further the practice and education of artists working in the Old Masters methods in the Classical Realist tradition, with drawing and painting workshops taught by master artists and instructors, long-pose sessions from casts, still life, live models and self-portraits, gallery and museum visits and seminars related to contemporary classical realism, and an atelier setting based on the methods and procedures of Tony Ryder and Ted Seth Jacobs. BACAA activities are open to all artists interested in working in the Classical Realist tradition of the old masters.
Linda Dulaney’s work has received several recognitions, including her drawing of Tiana being a finalist in the ARC 2019 Salon Competition and her drawing of Emily being a finalist in the Salon at the Triton Museum of Art, with Emily exhibited from November 9, 2019 to January 26, 2020. Her portrait painting Feathers received an honorable mention in “The Figure Contemporary” exhibit at the Santa Cruz Art League, and her portrait of Matt was selected and published in a full page in Juliette Aristides’ book “Lessons in Classical Painting.” Linda Dulaney’s drawing copy of Saint John the Evangelist by Guercino was published on the front page of Artist Drawing Magazine in Fall 2015.
Last updated February 14, 2026.
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