Steven Assael: Mastering the Lost Art of Painting Portraits on Copper

2 Days | Fri. February 24th & Sun. 26th, 2023
10:00am - 5:00pm
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Historically, copper supports were for many artists a practical and relatively simple way to prepare for oil painting. Artists such as Rubens and Rembrandt painted on copper. Examples through the centuries that have survived, exhibit great luster and remain as fresh as the day they were painted. Paintings on copper do not suffer from the same types of degradation as is the case for paintings on canvas or wood.
Preparing copper plates for oil paint is easy. We will go through some of the traditional methods as well as some of Steven’s processes of priming copper. The very smooth surfaces also provide an ideal substrate for rendering fine detail. Over time lead and other metal paint pigments fuse to copper in an enamel like hardness without the problem of sinking in such as canvas sometimes can.
Perhaps the most attractive reason among painters for using copper is the gleam of its metallic surface. There is a luminous jewel-like appearance that paintings on copper can exhibit.
This workshop will provide a demonstration painted from the live model. Steven will demonstrate that copper can allow for glowing transparent shadows and also give the feeling of light that jumps from the surface.
We will also cover basic construction of the head in light and shadow.
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