Paint Portraits FASTER using the Alla Prima Method

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Description: If you want to learn portrait painting faster, it's all about repetition. There is no better process for this than alla prima painting. This little lesson is taken from my new alla prima painting lesson on Patreon- available starting August 1st!

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About me:
My work focuses on the human figure. I've given drawing and painting workshops and demos throughout the United States and Europe. I have been making realist drawing and painting tutorials for two years now that I release through my Patreon page.

[fortnag]

I work in pastel and acrylic, and love one sitting portraiture. Most effective method for building confidence and on demand skill set

[BekkiUndSo]

I did that when I first started digital art and had no idea how to really work with digital paints. The programmierest back then only allowed three layers so that didn’t help either, but after I did my sketch I worked my paint just like this. Section by section just blocking in the shades I thought worked, sometimes color picking when I felt my eyes were deceiving me (how could a shadow on a pinkish person be dark green?) and it was a wonderful experience, in all honesty.

[BD]

In the past 5 years I have not made a single painting, this past summer I started painting again and I had only 3 hours for a painting, made it in a single sitting. This gave me the confidence to make all my paintings in one go, since then ive been happily painting on a regular basis while making 2ftx1ft tall paintings in 5-6 hours max! And my technique has drastically improved!

[androart]

i really love that you keep the refrence on screen for the whole time

[s.melonita]

I love when YouTube suggests just right, it doesn’t happen often. Great tutorial, thank you! Subbed :)

[rmdebora]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge for free here. I am starting to learn how to paint and hope to get better with time. It’s refreshing to know that everyone has the this looks like crap phase while working on a project. 😆

Alla Prima is definitely the shiznit. I used to make really detailed drawings before painting a portrait, fixed it, and then layered on top. Over the years I've been drawing less and less in the inital stages, now I practically just go all in with the painting from the beginning. If a mistake happens, I just paint on top, and sometimes certain cool effects appear as a result. Great tut Stephen!

[CarbonReviews]

unbelievable demo. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[RupertBreheny]

Nice to see this level of craft - thanks for sharing the technique Stephen.

[julessmithpaints]

You’re a very good teacher and your video is well designed and produced.

[julessmithpaints]

Excellent so happy to have found your page. Bravo.

[A.Viau_Art]

This is incredibly high value content - your demo and the instructional explanations are each incredibly clear. And of course the work is beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing!

[crowbabies]

What I loved about this painting was how you took a photo of totally blown out in the skin tones and brought a beautiful tone and feeling to the portrait. When I saw you mixing the flesh tones I thought, whoa, he’s going way too dark. Well done, sir. Thank you for this!

[iokhufu]

great work as always steph! always learning a lot from you.

[dkossin]

Great video. Perfect explanation on values.

[hiro]

Love your videos! So informative while I transition into oil paints for the first time. Thank you for sharing your wisdom :)

[Wildgrovehomestead]

Excellent instructional video. Great job

[omdraws]

Thanks very much, perfectly paced and good duration

[gnuPirate]

Tremendous Stephen, thanks so much for this and for your channel. Such amazing instruction, I can hardly believe it! Subscribed.

[kaylaherincharles]

Thank you so much for this video! Your art is magnificent and I've just recently been researching Alla prima painting, even though I am an artist, I've yet to venture off into the many different forms and techniques of painting. I primarily am interested in portraiture and finding out this method fits right into what I am interested in doing and also more so of my desired art style. Thanks again!