Alla Prima 3 for 1 Labor Day Special!
Labor Day is coming soon! Three days. Alla Prima paintings!
Get three alla prima workshops for the price of one! Only $37.
These are 4K streaming video workshops. No waiting for the mail. No waiting to download! AND your videos never expire. Always available to study over and over and over again.
RECOMMENDATION:
Begin with Thomas Eakins: Elements of Structure, it is designed for the beginner. Learning to paint alla prima from a well-resolved drawing is an efficient and powerful means to understanding facial structure and expression.
Next is John Singer Sargent. The focus here is rendering facial expression with a sympathetic concordance to the underlying anatomy and form. Yes, that's a mouthful, but it is important toward establishing a concreteness of expression.
And then Painting the Alla Prima Portrait from Photographs. Painting and photography are distinct visual languages. Here you will learn how to interpret the photograph to realize a solid painting.
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Alla Prima! Three for One! Syllabus & Supply Lists
1.83 MB
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Thomas Eakins Alla Prima - Reference image
6.72 MB
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John Singer Sargent Alla Prima - Reference image
9.87 MB
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Alla Prima Portraits from Photographs Reference Image
2.09 MB
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Eakins-Elements of Structure-Part 1
Striking the arabesque. Beginning the initial sketch. 19:50 4K Part 1 of 13.
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Eakins-Elements of Structure-Part 2
Blocking in. 20:32 4K Part 2 of 13
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Eakins-Elements of Structure-Part 3
With a limited palette of four colors the initial flesh tones are prepared.
10:56 4K Part 3 of 13 -
Eakins-Elements of Structure-Part 4
Serving up the half-tones in the abstract. The structure of the facial matrix is constructed looking past the features and into the underlying architecture of form.
16:57 4K Part 4 of 13
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Eakins-Elements of Structure-Part 5
Serving it up ... part 2
20:51 4K Part 5 of 13
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Eakins-Elements of Structure-Part 6
Serving it up ... part 3
18:16 4K Part 6 of 13
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Eakins-Elements of Structure-Part 7
Bravura! Rendering the abstract structural surface with a sympathetic concordance to underlying facial form.
26:31 4K Part 1 of 7
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Eakins-Elements of Structure-Part 8
Bravura! ... part 2
26:31 4K Part 2 of 7
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Eakins-Elements of Structure-Part 9
Bravura! ... part 3
39:41 4K Part 3 of 7
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EAKINS-Elements of Structure-Part-10
Bravura! ... part 4
22:33 4K Part 4 of 7
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EAKINS-Elements of Structure-Part-11
Bravura! ... part 5
20:46 4K Part 5 of 7
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Eakins-Elements of Structure-Part 12
Bravura! ... part 6
12:58 4K Part 6 of 7
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EAKINS-Elements of Structure-Part-13
Bravura! ... part 7 of 7. The Finire.
14:04 4K The Finire
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SARGENT-Alla-Prima-Part-1
Painting alla prima portraits from a Sargent drawing.
Part 1: Striking & Blocking
Learn how to interpret facial structure and expression from a John Singer Sargent drawing while engaging an alla prima portrait in oil.Part 1 of 9 26:36
4 1/2 hours 4K streaming video.
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SARGENT-Alla-Prima-Part-2
Part 2: Serving up the half-tones in the abstract.
Looking past the facial features into the building blocks of facial form with a limited palette. 25:22 -
SARGENT-Alla-Prima-Part-3
Part 3: Serving up the half-tones in the abstract continued.
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SARGENT-Alla-Prima-Part-4
Part 4: Into the ground : the figure/ground relationship.
The figure/ground relationship largely determines the Unity of the painting. 29:40 -
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Part 5: Going for the full stretch.
The full stretch from light to dark / cool to warm defines the 3-dimensionality effect of the portrait. 22:06 -
SARGENT-Alla-Prima-Part-6
Part 6: Going for the full stretch continued. 22:32
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SARGENT-Alla-Prima-Part-7
Part 7: Going for the full stretch continued. 30:37
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SARGENT-Alla-Prima-Part-8
Part 8: Going for the full stretch continued 27:28
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SARGENT-Alla-Prima-Part-9
Part 9: Conclusion 38:17
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ALLA-PRIMA-Part-1
Before you begin download the syllabus & supply list: artacademy.com/tv/alla-prima1.pdf Therein is also the link to the reference image.
In Part 1 we strike the arabesque and proceed to blocking-in the structural elements of the head.
Part 1 of 9. 4K
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ALLA-PRIMA-Part-2
The structural elements are refined and the half-tones served up in the abstract. Part 2 of 9. 4K
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ALLA-PRIMA-Part-3
The plastic architecture of the head is constructed with a limited palette. Part 3 of 9. 4K
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ALLA-PRIMA-Part-4
Corrective measures. Part 4 of 9. 4K
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ALLA-PRIMA-Part-5
For the second pass your palette is expanded and a range of flesh tone are mixed. Part 5 of 9. 4K
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ALLA-PRIMA-Part-6
The facial forms are extrapolated with an anatomical concordance. Part 6 of 9. 4K
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ALLA-PRIMA-Part-7
The facial forms are extrapolated with an anatomical concordance. Part 7 of 9. 4K
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ALLA-PRIMA-Part-8
The facial forms are extrapolated with an anatomical concordance. Part 8 of 9. 4K
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ALLA-PRIMA-Part-9-4k
Final articulations and going for the full stretch of light/dark : warm/cool. Part 9 of 9. 4K
