Alla Prima Landscape Painting Techniques
Alla Prima Landscape Painting Techniques
AN ONLINE WORKSHOP OVER TWO SATURDAYS
August 21 & 28
Time: 11:30am - 1:30pm, 2:30pm - 5:30pm
Instructor: Toby Hall
This workshop will be recorded.
In Alla Prima Landscape Painting Techniques students will be introduced to several essential concepts that can contribute to a more efficient and successful direct landscape painting experience. After cultivating an awareness of the global light effect and by rehearsing the color block in, students will utilize those strategies in alla prima landscape paintings in this 2 Day workshop. The two days are spaced one week apart to give students time to work on their projects and apply the techniques taught by Toby Hall.
The workshop content will be demonstrated and practiced over two days by studying landscape sketches of several great landscape painters that have inspired Hall. This will allow for the exploration of various light conditions, terrain and perspectives. Ultimately, the tools and knowledge gained from this class can be applied to working en plein air., in natural light.
Workshops are recorded and available for multiple viewings for a one month duration after the workshop has ended.
Sessions will include vigorous instructor demonstrations and student feedback.
Conceptual strategies covered:
- The block-in
- The poster study
- Painting into a wet base
- Alla prima - bringing everything together
Paint (Artists Grade - Gamblin, Holbein, Rembrandt, etc)
Limited palette. Contact me if you have questions or are interested in working with a more extended palette.
Titanium White
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Red Medium
Ultramarine Blue
Ivory Black
Brushes
I prefer to use rounds - I have a variety of sizes (nothing too big for this course, unless you want to work large). A medium range should be fine. I like to have at least 3 of each size.
Support
My preference is portrait grade linen, but that can get pricey. Stretched or mounted cotton canvas, or an acrylic gesso primed panel is fine, as well. For studies, I like Canson's Canva Paper or Arches Oil Paper (scraps of linen can be useful too)
Board
Something like cardboard or masonite to tape studies to
tape
I like black artists tape
Easel
Or something to prop up your support
Palette
Wood, Glass, etc. One that you can hold, or to lay flat - up to you.
Medium Jar
Something to keep your medium in (can be one that specifically clips on to your palette, or just a small regular glass jar)
Brush cleaner
Sealable container for cleaning brushes (with OMS)
Solvent
Odorless Mineral Spirits (OMS) - I use Gamsol
Oil for medium
Stand oil &/or linseed oil - I combine the two with OMS to make a medium
Palette knife
For cleaning palette and premixing paints
Sealable Tupperware or a Mastersons stay wet palette box
To keep paints/palette in
Clove oil (food grade)
A few drops of this onto a paper towel that has been taped to the top of the Tupperware will help the paint last longer.
M. Tobias Hall (b. 1981) lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tobias has an MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art (Class of 2017), and received his BA magna cum laude in Fine Arts (with a focus on Animation) from Arizona State University.
He has taught drawing and painting as a visiting instructor and assistant instructor at Studio Escalier (Paris & Argenton Chateau, France), at the Ryder Studio School (Santa Fe, NM), online with Studio Incamminati and now, the Teaching Studios of Art®.
Images of the instructor’s alla prima work (click to see larger)
