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Date: Thursdays, April 17-May 8, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM-12:30 PM Pacific Time (1:00-3:30 PM Eastern Time/6:00-8:30 PM London Time)
Level: All levels welcome
Medium: Oil, acrylic, watercolor, and gouache (Philip will work in oil)
Alla Prima or ‘all at once’ is generally a wet-in-wet, direct painting approach that has been used by countless artists. It can be a tricky but very rewarding process. So, to help us prepare to create fresh, compelling, and successful all prima paintings, we will utilize preparatory sketches to establish harmonic compositions and employ harmonic color palette choices based on various color contrasts. Still life is an ideal genre for this approach because it allows us to learn to control all the elements —the objects, environment, and lightning—to our advantage. Oil color is the quintessential choice for all prima painting (as it stays ‘open’ much longer), but acrylic, watercolor, and gouache are acceptable. Open to all levels.
Each class will include short lectures, demonstrations and lessons based on harmonic composition, color contrasts, and paint handling. There will also be instructional review of each students work. A materials list will be supplied at registration. Philip will be painting and demonstrating the alla prima techniques in oil color.
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$295.00
In the past twenty years, Philip Frey has developed into one of Maine’s finest landscape painters. Known as a brilliant colorist, Frey paints Maine’s harbors and islands with a bold and sensitive palette that captures the light and moods of his home state, from the streets of Ellsworth and Portland to Monhegan and Acadia National Park. Philip is known for his engaging, illuminating and positive teaching style. He is skilled at addressing his student’s abilities and helping them mature as an artist. His monograph, Philip Frey: Here and Now, by Daniel Kany and Carl Little was published in 2018. He exhibits at Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Greenhut Galleries, Edgewater Gallery, and Carver Hill Gallery and will be featured in group exhibitions at both Greenhut Galleries and Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, in the spring and summer of 2025.
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