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Materiality & Expression: The November 2024 issue of PORTRAIT PAINTER pits Jean-Leon Gerome, in his time the most famous and celebrated artist of the 19th Century against Eduoard Manet. Manet was only eight years younger than Gerome yet they were separated by a huge chasm in their painting approaches. Gerome was an illustrative academician whilst Manet, the modernist, influenced the development of 20th Century painting.

ALLA PRIMA!: features the practice of painting portraits in a single sitting. Includes a 32 minutes ultra-HD video tutorial.

Painting Alla Prima Portraits from Photographs

My upcoming Portrait Painting Zoom Class is Saturday/Sunday, December 28 & 29, 2024 at 18:30 PST for two sessions. $160

Alla Prima is loosely defined as first strike. That is, the portrait is done in a single session.

Painting alla prima is not painting manically. Instead it is a process of painting with a succinct economy of means -- every brush stroke counts!

For the learning process the alla prima portrait is spread over two sessions. The first session is structural: You begin with striking the arabesque (the big shape) and establishing the facial proportions. From there you proceed to a 'dry' coloring-in. These are your training wheels.

The second session is the construction of plastic facial forms with a sculptural sensibility. To wit, you will learn how to apply your brush strokes and color with a sympathetic concordance to the underlying anatomical forms, thus rendering a convincing 3-dimensional portrait that is as fresh as hot biscuits.

Also included is the ultra-high resolution video recording of the workshop that is your's to keep for future reference.

Write: michael-britton-workshops@artacademy.com for the full syllabus, supply list and to register.