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Alla Prima Flowers Session One

Session one of the workshop will be here at:

6PM UK time (2PM Eastern, 11AM Pacific – check your timezone here)

on

Monday 21st March

What we’ll be doing

We’re kicking off this workshop with the first subject, a single daffodil.

We’re going to be taking a close look at the process of choosing and mixing the colours we’ll need to paint this daffodil well.

We’ll also be going through how to mix these colours, whether you have the student Munsell book or the big one (or perhaps only the value scale!) 

We will be doing some painting, but just sketches to help with exploration of brush strokes and the creation of form – we won’t be doing a full painting. That’s session two 🙂

What you’ll need

Palette and palette knife

A painting surface for sketching on. I’ll be using an 8 x 10 inch ampersand panel, but you can use oil painting paper or whatever you like.

Medium: Linseed oil and a solvent

Paints:

  • lead (or titanium) white
  • a green yellow – cadmium yellow lemon. If you dont’ have this, lemon yellow or perhaps hansa yellow
  • cadmium yellow (ca yellow light if you’re using Winsor and Newton paint)
  • permanent orange (cadmium orange will get you close if you dont’ have it)
  • green gold (there’s really no substitute for this)
  • transparent red oxide (no substitute for this either really)
  • raw umber
  • ivory black

Brushes: flat synthetics and perhaps hog bristles. A soft synthetic brush for blending

Reference photo

Click here to download the reference photo

Supporting material

I’ve added some infor to the main course site that gives some background on how we’ll be choosing the colours

Click here to see the info for this session

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