Alla-Prima Portrait Painting | Full-Length Tutorial

In this week's video I aim to demonstrate an approach to completing an Alla Prima portrait painting (painting in one sitting). This video includes 1 hour worth of realtime painting footage along with detailed explanations on my technique, struggles, and thought process.

[randym]

Very good Mr. Y. More dimensions of the ever complex but doable painting of the portrait. Your picking and explaining a new nuance at each new demonstration is really valuable and breaks a complex subject down to understandable proportions. That’s a teachers quality and few painters can paint and teach. Keep up the stellar work.

[DrJeeps]

That was excellent and very informative. Thank you.

[dorisart]

I love all your videos.
Thanks for sharing your talent. 😍

[JulianMakes]

this is a lovely portrait, love those colours and the likeness is spot on! thanks Yupari, love these tutorials they help me loads.

[ELP]

Спасибо за щедрость- делитесь с нами демонстрацией построения портрета с объяснениями. Огромное спасибо.

[carolina.rentes]

Thank you thank you thank you so so much! You have something very rare in my opinion... Not only you are clearly an amazing artist, but you also are able to explain your process very well, in a non-boring and very instructional way. Do you mind if I ask you something? Well, I've been painting alla prima since march in art school, and altrough I'been loving those lessons (I'm a begginer in oil painting in general), I'm having a really hard time with the integration (?) of the model (we only use a live model that make 5 times the same pose for 15 minutes each) and the background of the painting. I dont know if it's a color thing, or if the problem is in the drawing (too much or too little detail in the background), but something is definitelly not working. We paint in a circle, with the model in a table in the center, and I never know what to include in the background (the teacher is very strict with the integration of the background in our paintings), what to leave behind, and in how to develop something that is, at the same time, beautiful and complementary to the overall picture, but not as attention grabing as the real subject. Since you do a lot of portrait paintings, If someday you're out of ideas about what to do in your amazing videos, can you say something about this? Thank you again for everything you already posted, I'm mesmerized with your work.

[ChantalGraveline]

Thank you! I am always looking forward to your videos! Great info! You mentioned drawing a number of times, would you consider doing one portrait in charcoal using the same massing principles?

[juanjosetrigo]

hello Yupari thank you very much for your demonstrations, they are incredible.
What kind of brushes do you use?

[desenhosreal]

perfeito essa pintura de pele negra ALLA-PRIMA . essa técnica e mais difícil do que o underpaitingh grissaile...

[nnebundoannaobi]

Thank you, I have a quick question, what type of fabric are you using to blot your brush on and how do you safely dispose of it after you are done?

[jimjeffmusic]

Thank you! I have a saying you might like to know that sums up the concept of seeing the big picture rather than just details. “Watch the doughnut, not the hole!” Burl Ives wrote a song with that title. Cheers!