Realistic Pet Portraits with Oil Painting

Alla Prima Technique

A course by Marcelo Rochá @artrocha , Painter

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2,729 students

Audio: Portuguese

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About the video: Alla Prima Technique

Overview

“Now, I will introduce the oil painting technique most used by contemporary painters, Alla Prima, or wet on wet. In addition, the use of impasto and the Bravura Brushwork technique.”

In this video lesson Marcelo Rochá @artrocha addresses the topic: Alla Prima Technique, which is part of the Domestika online course: Realistic Pet Portraits with Oil Painting. Learn to paint your pets from scratch in oils using the expressiveness of the alla prima technique.

Partial transcription of the video

“Alla Prima Technique Now I will introduce you to the alla prima method, the painting method most used by contemporary painters. Let's use it in this project too and is known as "wet on wet". It consists of painting the whole picture when the paint is still wet. Also known as wet on wet or direct painting. To make a comparison of this method with another used and quite classic is the stain method, where you have to wait for the paint to dry to go on applying transparent layers over the already dry layers. In this process, painting can take months or years to complete. Therefore, alla prima i...”

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Course summary for: Realistic Pet Portraits with Oil Painting

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (69)
2729 students
4 units
16 lessons (2h 16m)
3 downloads

Category
Illustration
Areas
Fine Arts, Naturalistic Illustration, Oil Painting, Painting

Marcelo Rochá @artrocha

A course by Marcelo Rochá @artrocha

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Painter

Marcelo Rocha is a Brazilian painter specializing in oil and plein air paint. After working for many years as an IT executive, he decided to study painting at Plein Air Studio in Brazil and The Art Students League in the United States. Nowadays, he dedicates himself exclusively to art and is the author of hundreds of canvases made to order and scattered throughout private collections in America, Europe and Asia.

With a realistic style, Marcelo portrays people and pets with marked brushstrokes and interesting pictorial effects. His passion for painting pets started with his own dog, a Paulistin fox named Sheik. After a first try, he realized he could be happy in that niche.