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Alla Prima Painting: Features and Faces

  • All levels
  • 18 and older
  • $590
  • Earn 5,900 reward points
  • 111 Franklin St, New York, NY
  • 36 hours over 12 sessions

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  • $590
  • 36 hours over 12 sessions
  • No class on Nov 30.
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Class Description

Description

What you'll learn in this painting class:

This twelve week course will include 3, 4-week portrait poses emphasizing quick portrait paintings. Discussion and instruction will center around 5 principle concepts:
  • Color Tiling
  • The Wig-Makers Block
  • 4-6 Color Value Notan
  • Structural Symmetry
  • and the Interconnection of Angles and Plumb Lines.

Materials List:


Canvas or Linen panel, toned a light grey, no
smaller than 9 x 12; no larger than 18 x 24
raymarart.com is a good supplier of affordable
linen panels.

Brushes: 
  • An array of soft Filbert brushes, sable,
    wolf, or weasel hair, available on Amazon or Ebay.
  • A small to medium Bright scholastic brush from Blick
  • A small to medium round scholastic brush from Blick
Palette:
  • Wooden palette or grey matters paper
    palette.
Paint:
  • Titanium White (Gamblin)
  • Yellow Ochre
    o Alizarin Crimson
  • Raw Umber
  • Burnt Sienna (Winsor Newton)
  • Ivory Black
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Pthalo Turquoise
Good palette Knife made by Blick, NO PLASTIC
PALETTE KNIFES

Medium:
  • Linseed Oil / Gamsol
  • Get a jar with a tight seal to carry these
Palette Cup with lid
Paper towels (Viva, Blue Shop Towels, or Bounty
are preferred)

Refund Policy

100% refund will be issued up to seven days after the first class. After this, no refund will be issued.

MAKE-UP POLICY
Unfortunately, we do not offer makeup classes. The instructor can tell them what they missed. Most of our classes are taught atelier style. If there is a demonstration during the particular session, after the demonstration the instructor goes to each student to work with them on a one-to-one basis. During this time the instructor can work with the student who missed the previous week, talk with them and explain what to do.

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New York Academy of Art

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