The Getty Hour with Rey Bustos

I will be doing what is called the "Getty Hour" four times in 2007. They are on the first and third Fridays of each month at the Getty Center at 1200 Getty Center Drive in L.A. and my gigs are in January on the 5th and the 19th and in February , on the 2nd and the 16th. I will demonstrate my figure drawing methods and talking a wee bit about the importance of anatomical knowledge as a liberating factor in all figurative work in any medium including CGI. The mini classes are from 7-9pm. I hope to see and meet some of you there. Rey Bustos

Rey Bustos Interview

If you would like to hear the Rey Bustos Interview with David Lemberg here's the link:
www.artscapemedia.com/podcasts/archives/2006/11/rey_bustos_arti.html ( actually,you can just GOOGLE Rey Bustos and look for "ARTSCAPE...Rey Bustos...")
Rey can talk and talk about most anything and has strong opinions on art and education in general plus the state of things today with all of the modern technologies. Enjoy, he's fun to listen to. Isabella Berndt (publicist)

Rey's Teachers

I have been asked many times who my teachers were. I've had many but if I had to make a list of the most influential teachers as far as art goes, they would all be from Art Center College of Design where I graduated from.
They are:

Burne Hogarth, at first crusty and loud,turned out to be a teddy bear with an amazing amount of knowledge and more amazing stamina. Our 9-4 class was exhausting but he kept going...and going...you get the idea. I taught the same class after his death and made it my own ,that's when I came up with my method of teaching through the ecorche' sculpture.

Vern Wilson. Great drawing teacher, patient and one of the kindest men that I have ever met.

Harry Carmean. The wonderous wizard of drawing. I felt a kinship with his drawing style...you may see evidence of the influence in my drawings.

Mark Strickland. Great intuitive draftsman and all from the heart. Great teacher

Lorrie Madden. Serious and intelligent, I learned so much about drawing from her,a great and dedicated teacher.

Richard Bunkall. He was such a sweet man and a great painter and teacher,he died much too young.

Dwight Harmon. He was so entertaining as a teacher,I really get a lot of my silliness from remembering that you can really be more effective when the students are laughing. He too died too young.

Rey Bustos to Teach at GNOMON!

Yes,it's true,I received the call October 2006 to teach my Ecorche'/Anatomy class there starting in January 2007. For those of you that may not know the Gnomon school,it is a highly respected animation and special effects school here in the SoCal area and I was honored to have been asked. It's now the fifth school/institution that I teach my beloved anatomy class. Gnomon will now join the list of places: Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, L.A. Academy of Figurative Art in Van Nuys, Cal State University,Los Angeles, and Disney Feature Animation in Burbank and now Gnomon in Hollywood. They are hoping to get my IMAGINATOMY class that I created for the entertainment designers at ACCD,which is really getting well known, it's a rare and amazing class. Anyway,I am happy to join with the great folks at Gnomon. I get asked to teach all ever the world but I don't like commuting...so fortunatley I have my home at the hub of everything..yes, life is sweet for Rey...the Anatomy Nut. Love and Marbles (marbles is prosperity in Reyspeak!), Rey Bustos

Rey Bustos at the GETTY MUSEUM

I will be giving a talk on the current show at the Getty Center on the collaborative relationship between Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder. I will be there on Friday September 1st 2006 and will give a talk at 4:30 and I will repeat at 6pm. Please come and enjoy an afternoon of fine art and then finish off your experience with my lecture.
1200Getty Center Drive,L.A.CA 90049-1687. " A splendid time is guaranteed for all",as the Beatles said. Rey Bustos

Rey's Kids Section

Some of you may have seen that I now have a section on my site devoted to the younger artists among us. It's a deep honor for me to have influenced many young people,some of them now adults,in teaching not only about art but about life and harmony. "Through the wonder of teaching children art, my art has grown up" I am known to say and I can't express just how much I have learned from sharing the magic of art with the very young. I am constantly being reminded through their eyes that what we do is truly magical and wondrous and we musn't forget that as artists. I'll leave you with another saying of mine: "All children are artists,all great artists are children at heart". Rey Bustos

REY'S ANATOMY...the MANIFESTO

Years ago,before there were computers in every home,yes,there was a time long ago when that was a fact kids...I drew many anatomical drawings with my trusty ball-point pen,EXCALIBER, for my many eager and wide-eyed students. Through the years I compiled a goodly amount of these drawings from my own photos of my favorite models or reference and had them side by side in a four inch thick binder. I simultaniously created my method of making an ecorche' so that my students could learn anatomy through 3D means using polymer clay. It's been an invaluable learning aid and fun to boot. Anywho, along enters this brilliant young man into my life. I met Yariv Newman at the cafeteria at the Art Center College of Design. He told me of magical things. Magical things created with a magic box. He took my humble little drawings,and cross faded them as well as filming my 3D ecorche's and voila,my site became an anatomical Disneyland! Now the magic will jump to dvd form. All anatomical drawings and ecorche's will get labeled and will be available to the public for all of you waiting for more. Yariv will be busy this year(2006) at the fictitious company I call REYCO,where all employees are sweet,happy and good looking and the sun is always rising over the soft rolling hills of MonteREY Hills. We will light up the anatomical education horizon and make all of this timeless and beautiful knowledge accessible and fun to learn from. So as I lay down my quill (get off the keyboard) I bid you a good day from REYCO and the green,green grass of MonteREY. Rey Bustos, CEO (Chief Executive Osteonut)

REY'S ANATOMY

Well,here we are at the end of 2005 and this next year will hopefully prove to be as rewarding and fulfilling as this last one has been. I hope to get to "meet" some of you via this medium in the future so don't be shy in dropping me a line. I wish you all joy and success this new year. Rey Bustos