Fleisher Art Memorial | Alla Prima Landscape Painting in FDR Park (5 sessions)

Alla Prima Landscape Painting in FDR Park (5 sessions)

Adult Class | Available

Level: Intermediate to advanced skill level suggested.

Date: 4/28/2026-5/26/2026

Time: 1:00 PM-4:00 PM EST on Tue

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Tuition $205.00

Member Tuition $185.00

Studio Fee: $20.00

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Alla Prima Landscape Painting in FDR Park (5 sessions)

Adult Class | Available

Program Description

The variety of light and atmospheric situations that nature offers is an opportunity for you to explore space and sunlight in painting. You will learn and experiment with paint application; the relationship of thick versus thin paint; the different energy of strokes; and color mixing, while learning to make rapid decisions about your paintings. You will finish one to two paintings per session. Please bring your own oil paint, and 2 panels with grey gesso 8" x 10."

What You Will Learn:
- Alla Prima technique of starting and completing a painting in one session
- Compose a painting from start to finish
- Basics of color mixing
- Learning how to see and paint color, and value relationships
- Diverse methods to apply brush strokes

Plein Air sites have restrooms nearby.

Special Notes

Please review our Safety Policies and Community Guidelines. Although this class takes place offsite, students are still required to uphold all Fleisher community standards and safety guidelines. Additional details about the offsite location and class logistics will be shared by the instructor prior to the start of the course.

To make our classes and workshops accessible to everyone, Fleisher offers tuition assistance every term so that everyone can join our creative community. Tuition assistance applications can be completed once registration is open by clicking here.

Required Supplies

• Portable collapsible easel (tripod sketch easel or French outdoor easel)
• Palette for mixing colors
• Soft brushes for working on a smooth panel
• Palette knife
• Turpenoid or odorless turpentine
• Windsor & Newton "Original Liquin as medium
• Small trash bags
• Paper towels or rags to clean brushes
• Cardboard tray to transport wet paintings
• Hat with wide rim
• Sunglasses
• Drinking water
• Suggested paint colors: Permalba White, Cadmium Lemon, Indian Yellow, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red Light , Permanent Rose Madder, French Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue (the hue for this color is ok), Viridian Green, Oxide Chromium Green, Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna, Indian Red, Raw Sienna, Yellow Ochre Light

Instructor

Giovanni Casadei

Giovanni Casadei is an Italian born artist who paints en plein air. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts in Philadelphia and at Scuola Libera del Nudo in Rome, Italy. In 1985 he worked as an assistant painter to Dennis Aufiery on a mural for the Philadelphia Zoo. From 1997-2004, Casadei has taught painting at Manayunk Art Center, Main Line Art Center, and Wayne Art Center, all in Philadelphia. He currently lives and works in Philadelphia and is on the faculty at the Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia.