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We are pleased to introduce the Jerusalem Studio School Bottega Series workshops.

The “bottega” in Italy was a master’s workshop where students or apprentices participated in the execution of works and processes so as to learn through direct experience, for the eye and for the hand, their chosen art or craft.

The JSS’s new Bottega Series is just that: themed workshops where various methods, materials and techniques, both common as well as rare and sometimes esoteric, will be demonstrated and explained step by step. We believe that learning in a bottega environment is particularly revealing for today’s students because what were once common methods, materials and techniques have become all but lost or misunderstood in our day – rendering most of them “rare”.

The JSS Bottega Series now reintroduces many of these methods and processes in a unique environment, the bottega, that will instill in artists, students and craftspeople a greater accessibility, intimacy and knowledge of materials, methods and techniques, whether in proceeding in a deepened way with one’s own work or deepening one’s understanding when seeing the great masterworks of the past.

The Bottega Series plans to offer workshops in the following subjects:

• 1. Hand Grinding and Tubing Oil Paint
• 2. Hand Made Supports and Surfaces for the Painter
• 3. Fresco Painting
• 4. Water Gilding and Gold Leaf
• 5. Making Crayons and Pastels
• 6. Egg Tempera
• 7. Understanding Glazing and Scumbling in Oil Paint

FIRST JSS BOTTEGA : ISRAEL HERSHBERG – WATER GILDING AND GOLD LEAF

January 16th, 23rd and 30th at 7:00 PM, Jerusalem Studio School, 33 Pierre Koenig Street – 5th floor, Jerusalem.  Our apologies: We are postponing the Bottega to sometime in late March, early April. New dates to be announced.

WATER GILDING – GOLD LEAF BOTTEGA DETAILS

• Slide Lecture: Gold Leaf – The History of Picture and Frame as Object.
• Demonstration: Preparing Rabbit Skin Glue and understanding its uses.
• Demonstration: Preparing and working with authentic (old master) glue gesso.
• Demonstration: Preparing a glue gesso panel as a support for painting or Gold Leaf.
• Demonstration: Preparing, applying and polishing red bole clay for gold leaf.
• Demonstration: Handling, applying, burnishing, finishing and toning gold leaf.
• Demonstration: How to make a 15th century Italian Renaissance style frame using the above methods of gold leaf and a painted granite cassetta field.