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Alla Prima Roses (Alla Prima)
Watch Sadie Valeri paint a bouquet of white and peach roses with high-definition close-ups of her color mixing and brushstrokes.
Alla Prima Peonies (Alla Prima)
Sadie shares every step for how she creates a one-day painting of a beautiful arrangement of pink peonies and white roses.
Plein Air Oil Painting: Land and Sea
Two paintings in one course: Painting the landscape on location “en plein air” presents unique challenges. Join Sadie as she paints and narrate two oil paintings on location on the coast of Mendocino County, California.
Portrait Painting from Master Copy and from Life (Alla Prima)
Sadie paints a master copy of a head study by Van Dyck, and then paints a portrait of her husband, Nowell, using the same technique.
BONUS: Roses and Peonies (Alla Prima)
Bonus courses are only available to members and cannot be purchased separately. In this course Sadie shares every brushstroke of creating this 6-hour painting of real, living flowers.
BONUS: Sketching a Seashell in Oil (Alla Prima)
Bonus courses are only available to members and cannot be purchased separately. In this course Sadie demonstrates a simple method for creating a quick oil study of a seashell.
BONUS: Workshop Livestream: Three Methods of Oil Painting
Bonus courses are only available to members and cannot be purchased separately. This livestream shares Sadie’s entire 4-day workshop teaching three methods of oil painting: Direct, Indirect, and Alla Prima to a group of in-person students at her San Francisco atelier.
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Each course is accessible enough to take in any order, without a pre-requisite, but if you want to follow a formal atelier program curriculum, we recommend working through the courses in this order:
- Intro to Classical Drawing (Graphite)
- Bargue Plate Drawing (Graphite)
- Cast Drawing (Graphite)
- Charcoal Drapery
- Charcoal Cast Drawing
- Still Life oil painting: Direct
- Still life oil painting: Alla Prima
- Still life oil painting: Indirect
- Figure drawing
- Portrait painting
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