Steven Assael’s Emotive Approach to Painting the Human Figure

Materials list

Choice of supports:

1. You can purchase lead primed canvas, (no acrylic primed), or lead primed canvas on boards
(Raphael boards are great, Jerry’s carries them

2. boards: masonite (untempered) or birch plywood. use acrylic gesso to prime:

use gesso cut 50% with water. Lightly sand the board with sandpaper between coats. You will probably
need 5 to 7 coats.

**** Or you can purchase already primed acrylic Boards, for this class 4, 16x20 or smaller. This is the
easiest thing to do, least expensive and what I would recommend.

brushes:

- various size brushes, i.e. filberts, flats and fan brushes.

- various size sable brushes, i.e.. filiberts, fan.

********He uses a lot of fan brushes, not for smoothing, he paints with them and he wants you to have
a variety of sable brushes. This is important to his process. If you don't have these, you will miss out on
practicing what he is showing you. The fan brushes need to be soft and stiff..Also, smaller ones can be
sable or mongoose, the larger ones can be soft bristle such as silvertone #12.

no paper palettes

no acrylic paint

Art Material store in Brugge

http://www.huisvanloocke.be/

oil paints:

titanium white,

brilliant yellow Lt or nickel yellow Lt., Rembrandt makes this

Naples yellow Lt, Windsor and Newton

cadmium yellow Lt

cadmium orange
cad red Lt

yellow ochre light

Windsor and Newton transparent golden ochre

Holbein brown pink

Sennelier brown pink

burnt sienna

alizarin crimson

ultramarine blue

Prussian blue

Kings blue

cad green Lt

viridian green

Dioxanine purple

burnt umber

ivory black

(I know it is confusing about the 2 brown pinks) Take a look you will see how different they are.) if it's
not possible to obtain both one will due.

some soft rags, viva paper towels.

medium: Please bring stand oil and cold pressed linseed oil to the workshop. Bring some cheap linseed
or walnut oil to clean brushes. DO NOT BRING ANY MINERAL SPIRITS OR TURPENTINE TO THE STUDIO,
DUE TO HEALTH ISSUES!!!!!!!

He likes the boards to be primed with a mid-tone red (these are boards that are already primed with
acrylic gesso), you can use any red acrylic, oxide red on the boards or something like it.
 If you are using lead primed canvas, do not use acrylic paint on it. Use a thinned (with mineral spirits)
red oil paint that will dry (not a cadmium - it will take a long time to dry), Naples red, oxide red Windsor
red with a little green are 2 good examples.

For this workshop bring 4 boards, no larger than 16x20.

If you do not have something for carrying wet boards, you can check

raymar.com, these are light, inexpensive and wonderful.

Feel Free to Contact me directly .. Eddi