7 – 8 February 2026
Cours en anglais / course in English
To register, please click here.
COURSE INTRODUCTION
Join tutor and alla prima artist Lizet Dingemans (www.LizetDingemans.com) and learn to paint the alla prima still life over 2 days.
‘Alla prima’ literally means ‘in one go’. This means you will start a new painting each day, using the objects and composition of your choice. We will work using alla prima, or wet-into-wet techniques. Setting up a new painting each day is a great way of getting creative with your own compositions!
This course is suitable for beginners and intermediate painters alike. Alla prima still life is the perfect way to learn to handle oil paint or to improve your painting skills. Under Lizet’s guidance, you will gain the confidence and knowledge you need to carry on your journey as a painter.
PROGRAMME
Day 1 :
Health and safety talk.
How to set up your palette.
Tutor demonstration of a three value white object. Setting up 3 values using raw umber and white.
Students paint a three value wet in wet study by using a half tone all over a canvas and adding the darks and lights with thicker paint using gestalt and mass drawing theory.
Then onto colour! Setting up a single object still life. Tutor demo of mixing colours.
Day 2 :
Tutor demo of wipe out techniques. Wipe out a 3 object still life.
Painting a fully finished painting using alla prima techniques using your own objects.
Along the way, you will learn about:
Drawing in paint, using comparative measurement. (getting the right patches of paint in the right place)
Values (making sure the patches are light or dark enough)
Edges (how the patches of paint sit next to each other and blend)
Colours, and how to mix them for alla prima painting.
You will also learn about brushes, paints, mediums, solvents and paints and how they interact for different effects.
How to set up a still life in oils.
Manipulating oil paint using different brushes (hog vs synthetic)
Goal is not to have a finished painting, but to feel confident painting in oils at home.
Lizet will tailor the course to your personal needs and you can expect intensive, customised tuition.
ABOUT THE TUTOR
Lizet Dingemans is a classically atelier trained artist. She studied at Angel Academy in Florence in the summer of 2011 and at the London Atelier of Representational Art (LARA) from which she graduated in 2016. Lizet lives and works in Stroud, where she is an artist and head teacher at Raw Umber Studios. Her work has sold internationally, and can be seen in private collections the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA. In 2016 her work was acquired for the MEAM Museum in Barcelona, Spain. An award winning artist, she was a contestant in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2018 and she was nominated for Artists & Illustrators magazine ‘Artist of the Year’ in 2016. Her work focusses on classical techniques taught by the Old Masters.
This class is limited to 8 students.
The price for this course is CHF 310.-
For further information, please contact us at info@studiovaldus.com
To register, please click here.
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