Alla Prima: Painting in One Sitting

Workshop

About this event

Indirect painting teaches patience. Alla prima teaches decisiveness. In this four-session course, we explore direct painting – working wet into wet, mixing color in real time, and finishing a piece in a single sitting.

It’s a different kind of discipline: less about correction, more about commitment to the first true mark. We’ll begin with a value and color theory primer, then spend our first two sessions painting simple still life objects provided in studio – building the muscle of seeing a painting through to completion in one sitting, learning when a passage is finished and when to put the brush down. In the final two sessions, you’ll bring an object of your own – something with weight, history, or meaning – and apply what we’ve built toward a painting that’s not just technically resolved, but personal.

Description from Caroline Gates.

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