Alla Prima Floral Fundamentals will refine artists’ technical oil painting skills with a focus on painting flowers and foliage. Students will make a new painting every session of the 8-week-course under the guidance of painter and instructor Sandra Sanchez. Each class will focus on a new skill, covering everything from creating a basic block-in to painting a full bouquet ‘Alla Prima’ style in a single session. Throughout the class, students can paint the flowers of their choice. Sandra will demonstrate with seasonal varieties that make for good beginner paintings. Flowers provide an excellent opportunity to learn about color mixing and design. The fragility of flowers provides a special chance to explore luminosity of light passing through petals. Paint handling can help enhance the balance of making the flowers feel both three-dimensional and radiant. Throughout the class, Sandra will share masterwork examples inviting questions and casual conversation with participants. Students may turn in their homework for weekly individual in-class critiques, which include detailed feedback and digital paint-overs in Procreate to show ways to improve in real time. Note: The first demo will be distributed the week before the live class begins. There is an assignment due the first day of the live class.