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Al Gury – The Quiet Beauty of Alla Prima Still Life (Online Class Recording)

Date recorded: Friday, January 16, 2026
Medium: Open to oil, acrylic, pastel and watercolor artists

Explore the spirit and techniques of some of the great still life masters: Chardin, Manet, the Impressionists and Van Gogh.

Visual history examples, discussions of materials and methods and a video demo will present a forum for questions and answers and a practical understanding of the subject.

Open to oil, acrylic, pastel and watercolor artists.

$40 for one year access

Al Gury is an educator, writer and artist.

He is a Professor of Painting, Drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Deeply committed to art education, he teaches many courses on painting, drawing and art history, as well as teaching art education methods to undergraduate and graduate students. National and international workshops are also a regular part of his engagement in art education. He is also a lecturer at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.

As a writer, Al Gury has written three books for Penguin-Random House on art methods and art history, Alla Prima, Color for Painters and Foundations of Drawing. In addition, he has authored dozens of articles for museums and art publications in the US and Europe such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Artists and Craftsman Magazine and numerous other venues. Al’s specialties include color traditions and practice in painting, old master and contemporary painting methods, drawing and figure anatomy history and methods, traditions and practice in portrait and landscape and others.

Al Gury is a practicing painter, with regular one person exhibitions at the F.A.N. Gallery in Philadelphia, as well as galleries and museums in other states.

Very involved in community and social justice activities, Al is a cat foster parent and advocate for animal rescue and nursing care via the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society.

About Our Past Technique Takeaways:

Discover specific art techniques that you can ‘take away’ from some of your favorite artists and apply to your own work. This one-and-a-half hour recorded presentation will showcase a process that the artist incorporates in their art practice.  Instruction will be through a combination of lecture and demonstration. 

You’ll be able to watch the class recording as many times as you would like for one year unless otherwise specified in the product description. (If an instructor wishes their recordings to be available for less than a year, we defer to instructor preferences.) There are no ongoing charges and your access will automatically end.

A link to the recording will be included in your on-screen purchase confirmation, in your purchase confirmation email and on your Online Classrooms page.

(There is no Zoom link for this event because it has already taken place).

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