Alla Prima Landscape Painting From Photos
- Class Starts Sunday, November 15th 2026, 1-4pm ET
- 3-4 hours class
- Video will be recorded for 3 months
- Step-by-step workshop focusing on efficient approaches to creating quick, energetic, & colorful paintings using select aspects of photo references.
- Participants can work along with Chris as he paints evening clouds over an ocean, sunlight shining through trees, and a campfire nocturne from start to finish.
Chris long is teaching the class
A daily painter for over a decade, Long, previously a figure sculptor, taught himself how to use a variety of two-dimensional mediums while selling his work on the street in New Orleans. A full-time RVer until 2022, he’s known for painting the atmospheric cloudscapes and campground nocturnes he encountered in his travels. You can find thousands of his original pieces on Instagram: @long_painter
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Workshop Description
Using simple alla prima techniques (brush & knife) and proportion measuring, you can confidently scale any small study to a presentation size painting, keeping your mark-making and energy intact.
I’ll be working from a 6″x6″ oil painting reference and creating a 24″x24″ piece from start to finish.
Participants may use any materials they want to if they’re working along, however I’ll be using the following:
- Three small gessoed & toned wood panels
- Six pigments (water soluble oil paint)
(Titanium white, lemon yellow, cad yellow deep, cyan, luminous opera pink, black) - Flat/ filbert brushes (1/2” & 1/4”) and spade palette knife
- Glass palette w/razor blade scraper
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