Painting Styles and Techniques
In most painting classes and online lessons, you'll have to pick and choose the techniques and styles offered to you. Not with Learn & Master Painting. Here are a few of the techniques and styles you'll learn and master throughout the course.
You'll learn . . .
Alla Prima
An Italian phrase meaning "on the first"; the process of painting directly on the priming of the canvas with no underpainting
Impressionism
Characterized by the artist's concentration on the general impression emanated by a scene or object and the use of primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light.
Chiaroscuro
The process of blending light tones, midtones, and dark tones to show the roundness of form
Realism
The depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation
Impasto Painting
The application of thick, heavy paint using the brush or palette knife
Scumbling
The process of painting a semi-transparent color over another color
Wet into Wet
The technique of applying fresh, wet paint into an already wet area of paint
