Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. Color:
Painting in Contrasting Layers
Monochromatic Color Schemes

2. Painting in Layers
• Bright underneath
• Dull on top

3. • Red over a yellow/green under painting
• Most of it is covered up, but some still ‘peeks through’

4. • Pink/orange underneath
• Let it Dry
• Dark blue on top
• “clouds” are “holes in the sky”
• (Georgia O’Keefe watercolor)

5. • You can let the
bottom layer
show through
• In this case, the
leaves (brown) is
the bottom layer

6. • Orange underneath
• Blue on top
• You can see one
under the other

8. • painting on a black background

9. • painting on an orange background

10. Monochromatic Color
schemes

11. • Monochromatic
color schemes
create a strong
mood

12. Kandinksy

13. color doesn’t exist independently of the light
This creates MOOD

14. Claude Monet painted images of ‘white marble’ on a church which don’t look like ‘white’

17. Monochromatic color = Light/dark, Bright/dull,
Warm/cool varieties of the same hue

20. Picasso’s ‘Blue Period’

21. Hirsch

24. Elmer Bischoff

25. Bonnard

29. Rothko