Alla prima; a contemporary guide to traditional direct painting.

9780823098347

Alla prima; a contemporary guide to traditional direct painting.

Gury, Al.

Watson-Guptill Pubns.

2008

176 pages

$35.00

Hardcover

ND1500

Writing for students and artists, Gury (painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts) presents a guide to direct painting and discusses its history, materials, color, and techniques like paint layering and blending, brushwork, simple glazing, depth perception, and making oil sketches and copies of masterworks. He instructs readers on each step in creating the four major genres--portrait, figure, still life, and landscape--and considers the work of his mentor Arthur DeCosta, and examples by painters such as Thomas Anshutz, Cecilia Beaux, Thomas Eakins, El Greco, Robert Henri, Giorgio Morandi, John Singer Sargent, and Diego Velazquez.

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