Alla Prima painting

We began our Alla Prima adventure with a limited palette: titanium white, burnt umber, and ultramarine blue.

The rub-out picture of the apple felt like fancy finger painting, dabbing away the paint with paper towels. It was pretty frustrating at the time, so I was happily surprised when it came out actually looking like an apple! This is not a very good photo, since the edge of the canvas is visible making that slanted white line.

Values, values, values! With such a limited palette, we were forced to concentrate on just getting the relationship between the values mapped out.