Hi.

Welcome to the Flower Symphony online course.

In this course you can learn how to paint with color gels using the Alla Prima painting technique.

Also known as ‘direct painting’, ‘au premier coup’ or occasionally mistakenly as ‘wet-on-wet’, alla prima is a one-layer painting technique in which the painting (usually painted from life) is completed in one sitting or while the paint is still wet.

The term derives from an Italian phrase meaning ‘at first attempt’. It is mostly commonly used in oil painting, and is not suited to painting with acrylics because of their faster dry time, but we can use it in gel painting.

At the end of this course you will know:

• how to choose the colors

• how to mix a wide range of colors

• how to associate colors for great composition, that pleases the eye of the viewer

• how to prepare the nail tips for painting, and choose the best base for painting with gels

• how to paint using the Alla Prima technique

• how to use glazes in gel painting

• how to paint daisies

• how to paint tulips

• how to paint a flower with 5 petals

• how to paint a hibiscus flower

• how to paint pansies

• how to paint a magnolia

• how to paint an iris

Thank you for choosing this online course, and me as your educator.