2 day Intensive Alla Prima Workshop.

Dates of Courses

13-14th September 2014

25-26th October 2014

6-7th December 2014

Saturday and Sunday, 9.30-17.00

Contact louissmithart@gmail.com or 07960989666.

The two days of instruction will be dealing with a full colour palette. Learning how to paint wet-into-wet and mixing colour and tone. Alla Prima painting is a loose spontaneous style of painting based on traditional techniques. The aim is to complete the painting in one day while the paint is still fresh and malleable.
The principles taught in the workshop can be applied to any subject matter including figurative, still life or outdoor landscape painting.

Teaching Style

Beginners and experienced people are welcome. Understanding is key and nobody gets left behind. Each student will be helped until they grasp the principles of the lesson.
Louis believes in leading from the front, demonstrating each step in front of the group and on students’ work if needed.

Louis Smith studied Classical Art in Florence and has exhibited his work in the BP Portrait Award and Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

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The workshop will cover

1. Wash drawing going straight into shaping the masses with some tips on how to measure and the proportions of the face.
2. Colour Mixing - Pre-mixing some general tones to be used in the portrait.
3. Colours of the face - how to see and emphasize the colour in the face.
4. Colour Theory - The difference between warm and cool colour, how colours react to each other.
5. Blocking in - Blocking in the general field colours of face, hair, clothes and background.
6. Refining the shapes of mass colour and tone
7. Working wet-on-wet - How to blend one colour into another and broken colour techniques.

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Equipment

The studio is equipped with easels and work stations to make it more convenient for the students to organise their materials and focus on their work. The studio is also lit with balanced lighting which can save a lot of problems when dealing with a colour palette.

Image shows the workstation, the Alla Prima painting is for display purpose.

Materials Deal = £20

Each workstation includes;

• Palette
Palette knife
• 
Medium holder
• Medium
Thinners
• Prepared Canvas
• 
Kitchen roll
• Paints (cadmium yellow, cadmium orange, cadmium red, alizarin crimson, violet, phthalo blue, phthalo green, burnt umber and white)

(Offer does not include brushes – Information on dedicated suppliers shall be provided)

Workshop = £120

Registration

2 day Alla Prima Workshop = £120. To register for the workshop, fill in your details and pay a 20% deposit. Then pay the balance on the day. An email will be sent to confirm your attenadance the week before the start date.

Timetable

Saturday and Sunday, 9.30-1700.

Venue Address

Louis Smith Art
Phoenix House
Ellesmere Street
Manchester
M15 4JY

Travel

Set navigation for Cawdor Street. Ellesmere Street is blocked in the middle for the next year. If you are traveling by car enter Ellesmere Street by turning left after the Church on the roundabout over the Mancunian Way.

Free Car Park at the rear of the building on Cawdor Street.

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Contact

Louis Smith

Tel: 07980989666

Email: louissmithart@gmail.com

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