OIL PAINTING CLASSES
ONLINE PROGRAM
Learn classical painting online, trough LIVE teaching, using accurate historical techniques. Interact in real time with instructor Marcio Alessandri and receive step by step directions on how to use your oil materials to execute a mastercopy based on a baroque master. Talk and interact LIVE while you´re painting comfortably at home.
In our oil painting classes, learn how to paint beautiful reproductions of eminent Italian and Dutch painters from the baroque period such as Frans Hals, Anthony Van Dyck, Peter Paul Rubens, Caravaggio, Rembrandt and others. Our program is especially designed for learning the methods used by the Old Masters starting firstly with black and white exercises and gradually moving afterwards onto more difficult studies in colors, using a more complex palette.
what you are gonna learn
The content of our oil painting classes was planned with a large number of exercises based on reproductions with different levels of difficulty. Here´s what you´re gonna learn:
- Color theory
- Mixing strategies
- Brush and tools handling
- Paint and Pigment Composition and Properties
- Vehicles and Mediums Properties
- Direct Painting Methods (Alla Prima – wet on wet)
- Indirect Painting Methods (layers and glazing – wet on dry)
- Methods used by italian and mostly dutch Masters
- How to block in and measure with “your eyes“
- How to prepare and organize scales and your palette
- Preparation of different grounds: Imprimatura
- Using Velatura and Sfregazzo´s application
- Use of different types of underpaintings
- How to safely use Materials in order to achieve permanence
- And much more…
Marcio Alessandri is an Italian-Brazilian artist who received a Doctor degree in Fine Arts from the University of Campinas and also a Master in Fine Arts from the same institution. His main area of research is historical painting techniques and technology of art materials. He is also an official technical instructor certified in London by Winsor & Newton. He runs, together with his wife Luciana Guilarducci, the Cozinha da Pintura art school, teaching classical painting for 13 years.
student´s works done under alessandri´s instruction
price
PER LESSON (2 1/2 hours)
PER LESSON (2 1/2 hours)