THREE OIL PAINTINGS? YES!

I finished my three day lessons for Alla Prima lessons on oil painting

Before we start!

(1) Is learning Alla prima enough, and what is that?
Alla prima means a "at the first" which means this style/ method of painting is used as an underpainting or a primary step. Also, it is an oil painting with not many details or blending. It is often used for studies and practice painting. It focuses on contrast, lighting and color strategies intead of blending and details, overall it will still have a realistic effect. Yes, it is enough to actually get you started with learning how to blend colors on your palette, mix and apply it on a canvas! Although art journeys never stop, this will help you connect with oil painting and spark a deeper interest on exploration.

(2) Can you actually finish a painting in one day?
The answer to that is, YES! It takes time but definitely achievable! Oil paint takes a lot of preparations before and after the painting but it needs so much dedication and consistency.

(3) What are the necessary steps before one starts oil painting?
First of all, you'll need your materials. Gesso primed Canvas, paintbrushes, oil paint, linseed oil, (turpentine is optional in this workshop), palette, palette knife, pencil, eraser, an easel or a clean and neat working space and a clean towel where you can wipe your paintbrush on. There will be some materials you will need to coat the painting after it dries (varnish). This is also why paintings or art, in general are expensive, the materials, process and concepts behind it do require tremendous amount of work and dedication.

Secondly, find a good subject to paint

Lastly, how to paint? Let's try and see what we have to learn!

THE PLACE, THE INSTRUCTORS AND THREE ARTWORKS

Our instructor is mr. Alfred Galvez, classes were held in one of the studios of Morning Light Art Shop and Gallery.

The workshop had planned out three works to be completed for the whole learning experience.
It covers basics but definitely sufficient to get you started on what you need to know which is:
(1) prepare
(2) apply
(3) finish

Preparing 🎨

How do we prepare?
We need the following:

• Canvas primed with gesso (we have a ready made canvas)
• Linseed oil (this acts like water for the oil paint)
• Paintbrushes (lets just use one flat tip brush)
• Burnt sienna paint
• A clean cloth to spread paint
• Palette knife and palette

#1 Staining or Imprimatura

Brown is a good base color, it's neutral and colors do not react when we paint over it. What we did was put paint mixed with oil on the canvas and spread it with a brush, then wipe it to scatter and smoothen the surface.

Here our instructor does the demo and gives us a review on basic sketching, the classical way.

Staining also gives you shaded background and serves as a midtone. This way, highlights can be emphasized and dark shades can be easily adjusted with a little paint.

#2 Sketching

There are two types of sketching, a review with classical style sketching where the subject is drawn using only lines and angles instead.of curves. This helps accuracy! And then we apply using a brush using the burnt sienna paint.

We apply paint normally in this exercise. And also use the cloth to erase mistakes. It was quite easier knowing erasing is easier.

We watch the demonstration.

This is the sketch that is supposed to happen. So when applying color, we see lines and dark and light parts.

My work! 🌻🙄 It's not the best, it was extremely difficult but I managed.

_{Photo by Mi Yen}

This is called a sketch because it's the initial marks of a process. Its just like drawing on paper, only paint is stickier.

Final result

My picture ended up not looking like my reference. I need more practice.

#2 Painting with Color

The next process involves color! But there's a twist! We use only 4 colors,

• black
• White
• yellow
• red
  At first I couldn't imagine how it was gonna end up, I imagined it would only be on the warm side but no! Amazing!

Our teachers demo

Some rules: always be patient and mix your colors first, make sure you get the gradations too.

Black will substitute blue, so we still get a rainbow actually!
Here's the palette

Remember to use the palette knife in mixinf because oil paints are thick and heavy, we don't want our brushes damaged

And we just smack the paint on it! Not focusing on smooth blending, it's rough yet the colora and values are present. After, we see how it atill captures the subject!

MY WORK

My subject is flowers, I also had a small palette knife so, my paint is mixed in a cute way

Observe, not much blending, just light application and rough textures

Final result

This painting was easier for me and I was really amazed how grey looks blue on the canvas and also how black and yellow turns to green.

#3 Self Portrait

The third exercise was to apply 1 and 2.
Sketch, and color!

This is tracing paper, we drew on it and made sure our sketches were good enough then trace it over carbon paper over the stained canvas.

Ready to trace!

Tracing 🙏

Zinc vs. Titanium White

zinc white is semi opaque (easier to blend and a bit lighter and translucent) vs. Titanium white, which is opaque and will cover your layers of color

*We used a different set of paint for fleshtone, we used ZINC WHITE tube then mixed with other paints, we also used ultra marine blue this time.

My new set of colors, I still used the other palette!

Layer 1, basically filling the face with paint. Then adding shadows, and highlights next.

Layer 2, highlights

See the lights on the nose and cheek?

Layer 3, is the shadow and patches of pink, yellow and orange. It makes the colors more alive. The hair is just yellow, orange and brown and highlights go last.

Final result!

HOORAY!

This is actually my favorite because I was able to copy the subject a lot!

I also enjoyed mixing the paint

Many of my friends loved how my self portrait looked, I think its successful too!

I totally am not satisfied with my first oil paint, but I am still appreciative of it being a step in my learning experience!

I am definitely practicing more! 💛

OUR NEXT EXHIBIT NOVEMBER 11

I am preparing a few works for our Christmas Bazaar.
Hope to see you all soon! Thanks for being with me and stopping by!

Pls feel free to comment and criticize lol :) open to suggestions, ideas and more art tips!

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