Our ongoing art program has three options:
Local Immersive
$880 per sixteen week semester (also payable $220 per four week month.)
Access to all online materials.
An educational plan directed toward your artistic goals and unique aesthetic.
Participate in weekly remote chats and live stream instruction.
Interact with other students who have access to a private academy
Instagram account.
Access to additional Monday night figure session at no extra cost.
Weekly instruction 5-10pm
-Wed for first year students.
-Thurs for second year plus students.
Participate in weekly on-site instruction in person.
Assignment tracking.
Personal feedback throughout the week (text Kirk.)
In studio feedback by appointment.
Participate in academy exhibits.
End-of-program solo exhibit.
Access to studio when not in use throughout the week.
Limited class size of fourteen.
Apply now
Remote Artist
$440 per sixteen week semester (also payable $110 per four week month.)
Access to all online materials.
An educational plan directed toward your artistic goals and unique aesthetic.
Participate in weekly remote chats and live stream instruction.
Interact with other students who have access to a private academy Instagram account.
Access to Monday night figure session for those who live close enough to attend, at no extra cost / You’ll need to find your own figure drawing sessions in your area otherwise.
Weekly instruction 5-7pm via virtual chat on days Kirk teaches.
Assignment tracking.
Virtual feedback throughout
the week (via text with Kirk) and on pass-off days (via video chat with Kirk.)
Apply now.
Auditor
$220 per sixteen week semester (also payable $55 per four week month.)
Access to all online materials.
An educational plan directed toward your artistic goals and unique aesthetic.
Participate in weekly remote chats and live stream instruction.
Interact with other students who have access to a private academy Instagram account.
No personal feedback or assignment tracking.
Weekly instruction 5-7pm via virtual chat on days Kirk teaches.
Apply now.
Curriculum - Artists develop with a curriculum that integrates four tracks into one.
THE NATURE AND MEMORY TRACK consists of exercises and assignments such as but not limited to:
Basic 2D Drawing and Memory Exercises
Value and Shading, Including Limited Ranges
Bargue Plates
Cast Drawing from Life and Memory
Values in Paint
Cast Painting from Life and Memory
Still Life and Memory
Plein Air Landscape, Sketch and Color Memory
Studio landscape
Self Portrait from Life and Memory
Portrait from Life and Memory
Interior
Historical Painting
THE IMAGINATION TRACK consists of exercises and assignments such as but not limited to:
Developing the Thumbnail Sketch
Color Schemes
Saturation, Including Limited Ranges
Principles of Design: Repeated Shapes and Rhythm
Principles of Design: Spatial Division
Principles of Design: Eye Paths and Motion
Abstract Eye Path Design Using Hierarchical Value
Imaginative Premier Coup as Color Sketch
Abstract Copy and Marks
Original Abstract and Marks
The Stylized Figure
Finish Three Compositions from Imagination
THE HUMAN FORM TRACK consists of exercises and assignments such as but not limited to:
Figure Drawing Fundamentals
Figure Painting Fundamentals
Figure Drawing from Imagination
Anatomy
Composing with the Figure
Hand Study
Feet Study
Draped Figure Study
Long Pose Figure Painting
Long Pose Figure Interior
THE UNIQUE VOICE TRACK consists of exercises and assignments such as but not limited to:
Master Analysis
Art Theory Reading and Writing
Business and Marketing Practices
Master Copy Plus Incorporating Elements into Original Composition 1
Master Copy Plus Incorporating Elements into Original Composition 2
Master Copy Plus Incorporating Elements into Original Composition 3
Master Copy Plus Incorporating Elements into Original Composition 4
Process and Materials Exploration
Fifteen Piece Unique Voice Completed Program Exhibit
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
To apply, send an email with the subject "Application" to jkrstudioacademy@gmail.com AND to email@jkirkrichards.com and include the following:
1. Five images representative of your current artwork.
2. A short statement of your artistic goals, including which of the two enrollment programs you're interested in: Local Immersive or Remote.
3. The title and image of four master artworks you want to emulate. Each work must be by a different artist, and no more than one of the four may be by a local artist.
