Steven Assael: Direct and Indirect Figure Painting

This lecture by painter and League workshop instructor Steven Assael will be held as a supplement to Assael's upcoming painting workshop at the League—Direct & Indirect Figure Painting. Assael will discuss both an analytical and emotive approach to painting the human figure with an emphasis on color and value relationships in a related atmosphere. The development of form through an observation and interpretation of plane shifts projecting and receding from the eye will be stressed. Aspects of anatomy, proportion and movement will be discussed along with the development of an Alla Prima technique which involves both scumbling and glazing.