Intro to Alla Prima Figure Painting

Intro to Alla Prima Figure Painting

Adult Course | Registration opens 4/1/2025 7:00 AM MST

200 Grant Street Denver, CO 80203 United States
106
Beginner, Intermediate
5/6/2025-5/27/2025
9:00 AM-12:00 PM MST on Tue
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$258.00
$219.30

Intro to Alla Prima Figure Painting

Adult Course | Registration opens 4/1/2025 7:00 AM MST

Working from a life nude model each session, learn how to quickly and directly paint the figure in one sitting. We will discuss a different fundamental element of alla prima painting as well as problem solving to address common mistakes as they arise. You will develop a deeper understanding of how to quickly assess hue, value and chroma, shapes, create convincing form, edges, while working in oils wet into wet. Painting in this direct manner will help you become a more confident and efficient painter. Every brushstroke has a purpose. Come gain that confidence and accuracy in representing the figure in oils!

  • Basic understanding of oil paints is a requirement for this course

    Learning Objectives:
    You will learn how to successfully paint the figurer from a life model.
  • Materials:
    -Sketchbook.
    -Palette. (Masterson Sta-Wet Palette Seal with a glass or plexiglass palette is recommend.) Please, try to avoid paper palettes.
    -Palette knife: elongated almond shape, the most flexible you can find
    -Paper towels- blue shop paper towels recommended
    -Brushes - whatever sizes the artist feels comfortable using. Recommendations: a mix of small, medium, and large flat and filbert brushes.
    -9”x12” or similar size canvas or panel. One per class
    -Gamsol
    -Sealable brush washer container for Gamsol
    -Vine charcoal

    Oil Paints:
    -Titanium White
    -Cadmium Yellow
    -Yellow ochre
    -Cadmium Red
    -Transparent Red Oxide
    -Alizarin Crimson
    -Burnt Umber
    -Viridian
    -Ultramarine blue
    -Ivory Black
    -Feel free to bring any other colors you like

    Optional:    
    -Latex/nitrile gloves (recommended)
    -Apron
Cristian Mora

To Cristian Mora, art is the search for truth and beauty in reality and imagination, in the natural and the unnatural, in the benign and the eldritch. A native of San Ramón, Costa Rica, he started painting rainforest scenes as a young child. His love to create only grew from there as he experimented with and discovered new styles and mediums. 

 

Working primarily in oils, Cristian incorporates a vast array of styles, subjects, and techniques, including Alla Prima work, plein air painting, city and landscapes, figure painting, and imaginative dark realism. He explores not only these but also other visual arts such as photography and digital media. 

 

Cristian’s studio is in Denver, CO, where he lives with his wife, Emily. He teaches at the Art Students League of Denver as well as private lessons. To see more of his work or to contact the artist, please visit cristianmora.com or follow @moraart on Instagram.