Oil Painting for Beginners/Intermediate - Painting ALLA PRIMA + Step by Step DEMONSTRATION
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Alla prima comes from Italian and means “at the first attempt”. It’s also referred as the “premier coup” (in french) and as the direct approach. If you want an idea of what can be achieved with this approach, take artists like Velazquez for instance, Franz Halz, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet is also a great example of what can be achieved with this approach...
Basically the idea of the alla prima approach is to complete the entire painting in one layer, wet-on-wet. This painting process brings together only the most fundamental elements of painting : everything is generally very spontaneous and fluid. Painting wet-on-wet is all about workflow, to be honest, it’s more a mindset than an actual method.
Most of the time, an alla prima painting is finished in one session, but this is not mandatory : this is why you can see examples of paintings with parts that are completed alla prima and parts that are painted indirectly, which means wet on dry.
Alla prima refers to the spirit more than the technique. And there is actually a wide variety of techniques that can be used to complete an alla prima painting. Wet-on-wet paint handling is used when a more spontaneous and expressive look is desired. If it’s done well, it generally gives a better sense of movement and creates more expressive transitions. When painting wet-on wet, every brushstroke overlaps the previous one.
This approach involves a greater emphasis on gesture and brushwork. It doesn’t rely on sophisticated techniques and mediums. It only uses the most fundamental elements of oil painting.
Now the idea is very simple but you have to know that using this technique is more complicated than it looks. It requires to work fast and to have a lot of confidence in the brush handling. In fact, when people are just starting, I usually suggest to start painting indirectly, this way, they can take their time and make corrections with each new layer. If you make a mistake, as a beginner, it’s usually easier to just let it dry and paint over it... If you don’t know what to choose between direct or alla prima and indirect, you have to decide what’s more important in your painting : expressiveness or accuracy. If you want more expressiveness, then the alla prima is right for you, but if you want your painting to convey an accurate representation of reality, then you might want to choose indirect, wet on dry techniques.
Painting alla prima requires a fast way of working, it’s not as simple at it looks. As anything, is requires technique and knowledge.
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I'm a Dutch artist living and working in South West France since 2006. I attended art school in Holland and hardly learned anything. Through the years I've learned to paint with oil paint and it's a never ending learning process. I'm so glad I've found your channel. In two hours watching your videos I've learned more than eight years of art school. Thanks a lot!
Such deep understanding in one so young...I would love to be alive to see how far you come in your old age....but alas, I am already very senior. Good luck to you, you are exceptionally talented.
Thank you very much Johanne.
I owe you a lot! I wanted to start oil painting again, but didn’t feel confident.
Then I binge-watched your videos. I needed to be an artist again.
I started charcoal sketches, then started live streaming when I drew them, then sold those works online...
Now I can afford those oil paints to get started. All thanks to you bring generous enough to share your time, techiques and knowledge. Thank you so much.
You're welcome ! I'm so happy for you ! Oil painting is great, you're going to love it again.
Nicola Dunford now you in turn have inspired me! Thanks both of you
I admire you for coming up with your oil paint money in such a creative way
Congrats @Dame! Admire your creativity!!How did you make your first sale?
I love how he puts the palette in the same frame so we can see what he is doing there too... which is very important to learn... thank you Florent
I am from India, Mumbai, I just discovered you, and I wonder what I was doing all these years, I learnt so much from this video, u r just fantastic, and a great tutor.
when you said 'knowledge has disappeared from the art world' my hair stood on end. So true. (I went to architecture school where I learned a fake form of drawing, year later I saw real art (in France) and slowly began to try and learn to draw the way the great painters did...always looking at old masters' drawings and methods and wondering how they studied...it's not enough just to keep trying and practicing: you need to understand what works and how and why. I'm so glad to find you: I've learned more from you than nearly any other artist or teacher out there today. Thanks so much.
I could happily watch you for hours. Mesmerising 🙌🏻
You’re such a brilliant painter, a delightful person and a joy to watch … best on youtube. Thankyou so much for sharing.
I've only just discovered your channel and it is AMAZING! Thank you so much! I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of this video!! The music mixed with the raw audio, the intro lead-in, the painting demo! and also your philosophy on keeping oil painting/art alive!! I've seen enough, I have decided to purchase your course!
You make such great videos, thank you very much! You’re right: I’ve been at Art School, and I learned practically nothing about techniques, no knowledge. After art school, I disn’t enjoy painting anymore. After 15 years of touching no brushes, I found out that I was frustrated not being able to do what I wanted because of the lack of knowledge. Luckily people like you make it available and it helps a lot, I enjoy painting lije never before.👍🏻
Yes, knowledge is so hard to get/find. This is why i love your videos, you've helped me so much.
Watching this while painting is such a relaxing thing to do.
I love the music that you put in the video and your talent is just breathtaking.
Tu es magnifique Florent! I can’t wait to watch your next videos
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Thank you for another wonderful tutorial! I literally had to take notes to keep me reminded of some tips I pick up while you are doing it. I like your intensive teaching.
You're so right about knowledge...i.dont know alot but the information you provide really helps
Thank you, it's just that knowledge has been considered outdated and old-fashioned in the world of art. But every little bit counts.
You are a fantastic instructor. Thank you for sharing. I love this painting.
I absolutely love the alla prima technique its also great for outdoor painting and thank you for your choice of great examples of alla prima artists 🙏🧡
I am so happy watching you, and getting new insights.
Thank you for sharing your talent its much appreciated
Thank you for teaching me so much. I am a self taught artist an you have helped me.understand so much. It is very difficult to want so much to create beautiful art but you just don't understand. I almost give up painting every day, I get so upset with myself. There are times I sit at my easel an cry because I just can't get it. I refuse to give up because I will someday get the creative desire within me into that canvas!!! Thank you for sharing your talent and knowledge.
Truly beautiful and inspiring!
oh man... your tutorials are so clear and to the point!! I love it!!!
such an inspiration! i understood why you placed every single stroke
Wonderful approach to art and creativity.
Magnifique!
Utterly inspiring Florent.
I really enjoyed watching you painting. I've been to art school and it was great to help me get a foundation but now I'm trying to focus and improve on the areas that I'm the weakest in. I like the progress I'm seeing and it's because of the many things I'm learning from you - which is making painting fun for me! - thank you : )
I love your works , thank you for sharing you are a great teacher
So enjoyable seeing you work and listening to this calming wonderful music. Thank you for sharing your talent!!
You taught me a lot. Hats off to your knowledge!!
Fantastic ! 👍🏼☺️🎨
It was meditating watching you painting with piano voice in background...
Superb tips and so well explained for beginners. Thank you.
Helpful thank you, you are good at what you do, I will subscribe
Thank you, I appreciate
Excellent teacher!
Bonjour Florent,
Quel plaisir de retrouver tes vidéos. C'est un sacré réconfort. Tu es donc mon deuxième professeur mais ce n'est pas un jugement de valeur, c'est une question de chronologie. Le premier étant Mark, que tu cites dans d'autres vidéos. Tu vois, je suis entre de bonnes mains. Naturellement, ça ne vaut pas un cours physique que l'un ou l'autre donnerait mais c'est toujours mieux qu'un enseignement présentiel de mauvaise qualité.
Ce que j'aime chez l'un comme chez l'autre, outre la qualité des techniques et la façon d'enseigner, c'est de voir l'égo de l'artiste derrière la toile et non pas devant comme c'est trop souvent le cas. Merci. Merci beaucoup.
this video explains the technique I will develop for my portrait painting thanks ! you are a good teacher.
bob copple hi, here is a wonderful artist who has full lessons in portrait painting. Drawing etc...go thru his list..as he has different levels...
ua-cam.com/video/03aY_pC6eLA/v-deo.html
Excellent resource. Thanks.
I am a photographer - as such a rare dinosaur at the age of 54: I really know how to "draw with light". Now, as an amateur pinter, I really appreciate your thoughts on the basic knowlegde.
Thank you very much may :)
Thank you for this. In awe
Thank you for everything ❤
Thanks for being you! Great painting.
Mesmerising
Wholeheartedly agree with the sad reality that knowledge isn’t held up and valued! Just like learning the alphabet is necessary for reading, there are fundamentals needed to undergird good art. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Yes! Knowledge has been discredited!
Top artist, top teacher! :)
I have watched lots of video on this topic but this is the best explanation i found... Thank you so much.. Keep doing its very very helpful....also plz make video on some portrait painting....new techniques...
i love it
You have done well
Fantastic
I remember when I started painting, it was all allaprima because of Bob Ross haha
After a few canvases I was unhappy because that wasn't the way I wanted to paint, I wanted to dedicate more time to each canvas, so then I found my style and my workflow, and now I love painting 😊
Still, I thank Bob Ross videos because they got me started 🤗
Wow bro thank u so much u teaching very nice.❤️👍
Amazing
BRILLIANT! How long did it actually take to complete this painting? You are exceptionally skilled not to get a "muddy" mess instead of a masterpiece! Well done! I've only done a one truly alla prima painting, which I gave to a friend who loves it for the spontaneity it conveys. But it takes a LOT of forethought to get that! It did not compare to your work here. I'm subscribed!
Thank you very much ❤️
I like how you put the top supprt piece of the easel on upside down, so as to get full coverage on the canvas. Never thought of that.
Haha, it creates annoying shadows it's very annoying. And I use a piece of window sealing foam to press and stop the panel from slipping away.
THANX FOR SHARING
I am an artist myself but you are great!!
Your english pronunciation is very good. It's similar to a north american way of speaking rather then British.
You shouldn’t be critiquing English when you can’t tell the difference between then and than.
Thank you
This video is mind blowing. Thanks for sharing the valuable content! Can you please make a video of landscape with oils.. it would be very helpful for finding more info.
Bob Ross ;)
Wooow super
Beautiful video. Is the way you work applying the paint the same as "tiling"? Thanks for sharing your talent and knowledge.
thanks master
Excelente
I feel like this video was made specifically for me. I’m having an all-out existential crisis over whether to paint alla prima or not. I want my work to have the fresh look of alla prima yet I’m not knowledgeable enough to pull it off yet. I think I will work indirectly for awhile, practicing the kinds of brushwork I want and layering where needed. Maybe I can work up to alla prima. Thank you! As another commentor said, it’s like you read my mind!
I think that's exactly how you'll get there... You can have the "spirit" of the alla prima brushwork in an indirect painting. And you can also have alla prima paintings that are very tight and show no apparent brush marks. In the end, you'll just try different things and keep what works for you... and in no time, bam you've found a style that defines your personality !
Florent Farges - arts Wow that’s exactly what I needed to hear. You’ve helped me so much! Thank you for your kind words.
Thank you for another wonderful tutorial! Do you use silver for metallic. Also, I like to use palette knife. Please share with use tutorial on palette knife. Thanks again!
I really love your videos about oil painting. There is just one thing that keeps me from starting. I see a lot of artists use bristle brushes for the alla prima approach. Now I'm asking myself: Is it possibke to get a wonderful alla prima painting by using natural hair brushes (primarily red marder)?
I might buy his video
Bonjour, donneriez vous des cours de peinture en France ? Autrement je vous remercie pour vos vidéos, elles sont très bien réalisées et elles m'aident beaucoup dans mon apprentissage.
Sorry if I missed this detail. Your brush reaches off screen below for something - I’m assuming it’s a medium. If not, is there a medium that you use that is helpful with this style of painting? Thanks for the wonderful video!!!
Great video and great work AND what is the piano music, so beautiful?
What is the color you toned your canvas with in the beginning. Thanks alot for sharing your talent. Great tips would be awesome if you explain the colors you used . Thanks from Canada
Wonderful video, thank you! Do you use one brush for darker tones and one for lighter? And do you only clean them by wiping them on paper?
Thank you for an excellent video, Florent. I really like the way you created a sort of grisaille in the beginning. I would never have thought of doing that. One of the reasons I have always struggled with alla prima is that I have always just done a quick pencil sketch and then somehow lost the drawing underneath the colour. I also noticed how you were able to control the chroma of the orange fruit with the cool grey underpainting. Do you mix any medium at all with the paint?
The challenge is to keep the chroma intact, because the blue underpainting is not dry. I talked about it in my video on brushwork ua-cam.com/video/fXopUOKVaHA/v-deo.html&t You have to control the quantity of paint on your brush, it's extremely important, otherwise the blue from underneath pollutes the orange. With the right consistency, it's thick enough to cover without being affected by it. If you need medium (which isn't necessary for alla prima) you want just a few drops. The thicker the better...
Je me posais la même question de l'opacité et de la transparence de la peinture choisie. J'imagine les tons de Jaune de Naples, orange de cadmium et rouge de Pyrrole ...?
J'ai dévoré le "Guide" et je reviens aux vidéos tellement pédagogiques ! Merci ...
Une question : une fois sèche, la peinture alla prima peut elle supporter des glacis (sur le kaki par exemple) ? Il me semble qu'on y gagnerait en transparence et donc en profondeur ?
MashaAllah 🤲, I am in ohhh 😮
what do you use to get the oil paint so liquid without diluting the color of the paint?
Hey man very nice tutorial! thanks a lot! I've a question! What happens if you paint until late at night and the next morning you continue your painting? is it still "wet on wet"? would you have to wash the brushes?
That's interesting that you would go to the trouble of an undercoat only to 'erase' some of it only to, paint right back in that same area!! Never seen anyone do their undercoating that way. Very unique technique. Can you discuss a little more why you prefer this method rather than leaving your undercoat -- AS -IS, then painting on top of that the, the way a lot of people do.
What kind of surface are you using for your palette? What do you listen to when you paint?
Trojanette83 a lot of alla prima portrait artists do it this way. It helps some with creating the right shading of the pictures they are working on. It’s just one of the methods of the wet on wet technique. I hope that helps.
I’ve been doing layers so it ends up taking 3-4 days to see I have a proportion or two wrong! I
I finished my 31 days in a row. Took two days off and I’m doing charcoal now.... jumping right in to painting might have been a little too much. I did improve since binge watching Florent. When I start painting again, and soon, I’m going to get those proportions down right before a drip of oil goes on. I’ve said this another way several times..... with the charcoal....which is so forgiving.....I’m going right in to blocking it then connecting hinges with out measuring because honestly that messes with my head....not a numbers person at all. I did a fair number of hours gestural drawing with willow 20 years ago. The blocking geometric shapes are what I put on fast in a gestural way. I never did those two before and they are really helping a lot......these charcoal portraits will get me doing what needs to be done to proportions ....finally...yeah....so there are to areas....one speed up and the other slow down..... need to step back more often. I’m also using more difficult poses with the charcoal....
I used to just do wet on wet no medium....thhe results were pretty bad now I look back in just a few weeks of getting UA-cam lessons at a $10 a month patron level getting questions answered. January will be ordering the color theory ....9 hours and hopefully I can create some lesson art fro it? Or does it have exercises as a part of it? There’s nothing wrong with two color painting in my book ....I kinda like solemn moody stuff.... my favorite old time master artist is actually Odilion Redon. The man who paints a suggestion of a face only! The only thing I don’t like about his art! You mentioned Singer Seargent and Monet....I do like Singer Seargent portrait art. I’m not even sure about Monet and portraits....but I love his art a whole lot. I will see if he has portraits. I’m kinda leaning towards wet on wet for ME but I want to be able to do the other as well
Florent “I read your mind” Farges
Yeah, it's getting annoying, please stop having weird dreams at night ! :)
Florent Farges - arts than you so much. I was just thinking of how I should start as my eldest daughter wants to paint with me and we both love oils. So we are devouring your channel until we get your course and our supplies. Sharing your talent like this is really a gift. Thank you
Sir how long does it takes to dry?
i'm a beginner, is it a oil or a diluent that he close at 09:00? like he use the diluent do spread the colour easily?
Goated
PLEASE let us see the finished painting!
Does your course cover the business side of art?
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I can see you live in france because your colors are rembrandt, lefranc and windsor :D (I guess there are some sennelier)
Exactly, my accent also gives me away sometimes.
I went to school to learn about painting and creating art. What I learned was that art institutions produce degrees, not knowledgeable students. Some of the most basic things about painting were not even a consideration for the school. They taught theories, not techniques, and most of the teachers were annoyed that they had students on the college level who did not possess these basic skills of how to apply color, work with paint, prepare a surface... in the US, public school systems (intermediate schools and elementary level (high schools)) don't have the budget for oil paint, or canvases, or anything that is involved as fine art production on a professional level of instruction. For many students, their first exposure to oils is when they are forced to take an "introduction to media" class, or a "basic painting" class as part of the curriculum. They are hit head on with a very steep learning curve, and many of the basic principles are either skipped or omitted in light of what a teacher feels are necessary for the benefit of the class.
Congratulations florent, I always follow your videos that are among my favorites.
I'll ask you one question. In your opinion, among the many mediums existing in painting, which one is the best to paint "alla prima"?
The great thing about "alla prima" is that the medium is not extremely important. Paint straight out of the tube is perfectly fine. If it's too stiff for your taste, then a good choice would be poppyseed oil for slow drying time, prolonging the opening of the paint. But whatever medium (or no medium) works, really ! I would say, keep things simple.
bonjour Florent , tres bien ta video ,dit moi est ce que tu comptes de sortir une video prochainement ,comme la derniere fois ,(peinture à l'huile)j'ai super adoré merci en tout cas pour ta video aujourd'hui Georges
Salut Georges, oui j'ai quelques projets qui sont à l'étude. Mais comme toujours ça interfère avec mes peintures et je ne fais jamais les choses de manière bâclée donc j'y passe du temps. Ce sera courant 2019 si tout va bien...
super ,bon on va attendre tu as raison il fut prendre le temps pour bien les choses ,ta video de 5h que tu as réalisé est super bien fait , moi je suis preneur pour ta prochaine j'attendrais bonne soiré à toi merci
Hi Florent, can you tell me if you allowed your grisaille to dry first before your first color painting? (I couldn't tell from the video). Thanks.
Not Florent but I'm pretty sure he did this in one sitting so the grisaille would still be wet
Bonjour. Pourrait on avoir la vidéo en français svp. Merci beaucoup
Bonjour ❤
I think you’re correct about no knowledge anymore in the art world, I think art schools are taught to progress in art so I think people are misinterpreting that as having no rules. It’s a purposeful no knowledge, I think people want an innocent primitive childlike feeling to their art. Just my theory as I love realistic painting
What is the term for opposite of Alla prima?
@ Sujanith I believe that the opposite of alla prima ( wet on wet) is referred to as "indirect"
C'est un kaki ou une orange?
(j'ai un peu honte de mon commentaire d'une pauvreté extrême voir d'une ingratitude face à votre travail monumental en terme de vidéo, d'enseignement et de création mais ça m'a intrigué tout le long du time-lapse 😂)
Hi. I wanted to become a member of you atelier, but there is not access for me. How can I open your memebership "Inside of atelier". I have no problem of access to your site. But futher I can't move.
Good morning bro how long painting videos u have please all videos put in youtube channel.🙏 My personal request
what is he doing with the stick in his left hand (e.g. 34:27)
@ Rui Guan It is called a mahl stick and is used to support the painting hand and keep it from smearing the wet paint. Also great for painting straight lines by sliding the brush hand along the mahl stick.
YOU FORGOT BOB ROSS! HE IS ALSO A GREAT WET ON WET ARTIST!