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1. Painting Introduction
Glenn Hirsch

2. • Step-by-Step
• Block in the whole composition, including the lighht
• Then let dry and clarify detail

3. • Painting in transparent
layers = “glazing”
• step 1
• let it dry
• then step 2

4. • First do a
thumbnail sketch
on a separate
piece of paper
• No detail – block
in the light &
shadow

5. • A very rough
‘thumbnail’
sketch on a
separate piece of
paper first

6. • Then block in the
whole
composition,
including the
light and shadow

7. • Then let dry and
clarify
• Painting the
background
redefines the
edge of the
shape (eg, the
cheek)

14. Part II
Warm/cool color concept in
“Chromatic Scales”

15. Colors arranged in warm/cool pairs of each hue

16. Colors
a "warm yellow" Cadmium Yellow Medium
a "cool yellow" Cadmium Yellow Light or Pale or Lemon
a "warm red" Cadmium Red Medium or Light
a "cool red" Quinacradone Crimson or Alizarin Crimson
a "warm blue" Ultramarine Blue
a "cool blue" Cobalt Blue or Cerulean Blue or Turquoise Blue
a "warm green" Sap Green or Chromium Oxide Green or Perm Green Light
a "cool green" Pthalocyanine Green or Viridian
a "warm brown" Burnt Sienna or burnt umber
a "cool brown" Raw Sienna or raw umber
a "black" Any black or mix your own: Alizarin Crimson + Pthalo Green
a white Titanium white or "Permalba" brand oil white

17. Chromatic scale in
reds to enhance
the illusion of
“light”
• Lighter b/w value in the light
• Brighter intensity in the light
• Warmer (orangey) red in the
light (vs bluer purplish) red in
the shadow

18. Chromatic scale
• Light to dark
• Bright to dull
• Warm to cool

19. Chromatic scale – light to dark, bright to dull, warm to cool

20. Black and white is the
“value” of the color

21. Chromatic scale – light to dark, bright to dull, warm to cool

22. Chromatic scale – light to dark, bright to dull, warm to cool

23. • This isn’t a ‘rule,’
it’s a ‘recipe’ to
enhance the
illusion of ‘light’

24. David Park, Portrait of S.C. Pepper, 1953

25. • Famous artists
practice apples
• (Paul Cezanne)

26. Georgia O’Keefe

27. • Chromatic scale
• Watercolor
• (Charles
Demuth)

28. • Chromatic scale
• Acrylic
• (Robert
Haemmerling)

29. Chromatic scale – light to dark, bright to dull, warm to cool

30. Apples without glowing ‘light’

31. Dramatically lit apple using the chromatic scale – light to dark, bright to dull,
warm to cool

32. Dramatically lit apples using the chromatic scale – light to dark, bright to dull,
warm to cool