The document provides an overview of a beginning/intermediate painting class taking place at a Jewish Community Center in winter 2018. It includes a week-by-week syllabus covering topics like light, style, exploration, energy, and idea. The instructor will discuss what makes color sing through the illusion of light using contrast and variety. Students will learn acrylic and watercolor techniques using the brush in various ways and the difference between realism and abstraction. Tonight's lesson will focus on color as light, how to create the illusion of light through contrast and warm/cool combinations, and a painting exercise in abstraction using brush and layers.

1. COLOR THAT
SINGS
BEGINNING/
INTERMEDIATE
PAINTING
Jewish Community Center
Winter 2018
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor
Paul Wonner

2. SYLLABUS WEEK-BY-WEEK
Jan 24 “Light” and Abstraction – Color to create “light’ & brush to create “texture”
Jan. 31 “Light” and Realism – Still Life: warm/cool combinations to enhance the illusion of ‘form’
Feb. 7 “Style” Part I – Master Study – exact copy of a painting you love
Feb. 14 “Style” Part II – Response – a painting all your own but using the color & style of the master
Feb. 21 “Explorations” – Working in Series (Course Project: 3+ paintings investigating a style and subject)
Feb. 28: “Energy” - pattern and repetition (HW: continue series project)
March 7 “Idea” – modernism and art history (HW: continue series project)
March 14 No class (HW: continue series project)
March 21 “Critique" – Discussion of all work for semester and potluck

3. TONIGHT’S LESSON
• What is color? (light)
• What makes color ‘sing?’ (the illusion of ‘light’)
• What makes the illusion of light? (contrast and variety (of color))
• What’s the procedure? (acrylic/oil technique vs. watercolor technique)
• What are all the ways to use the brush?
• What’s the difference between ‘real’ and ‘abstract?’
• Painting exercise: abstraction, brush and layers

4. What is
“color?”

5. What’s the ‘real color’
of the house?
Color is Light

6. Monet paints ‘white’ marble at different times of day

7. What makes
color ‘sing?’
The illusion of
‘light’ !

8. Paul KleeAdam Hirsch

10. Styles of light
“Old Master” emphasizing shadow vs. “Impressionist” style minimizing shadow
ManetRembrandt

11. Vermeer
Student work in
style of Vermeer

12. What makes the illusion
of ‘light?’
light/dark contrast
(‘value’)

13. To see the ‘value’
(contrast)
imagine what the
painting would look
like in black and
white.

14. imagine what the colors would look like in black and white

15. Degas

16. Elmer Bischoff

17. A second factor which also
makes the illusion of ‘light’
Variety of color
(warm and cool combinations)

18. ‘warm’ and ‘cool’
varieties
of the same color

19. Monet (detail)

20. Georgia O’Keefe

22. What’s the Procedure?
Acrylic/Oil
(use both thin & thick layers)
Watercolor
(use all thin watery layers)

23. Acrylic procedure
start thin, build up each layer thicker each time
Use opaque white
Watercolor procedure
start thin, build up each layer but each layer stays thin
(“watery”)
Create ‘white’ by reserving the white paper

24. Joan Mitchell acrylic John Singer Sargent watercolor

25. Watercolor: starting on a white background,
then preserving the white paper where you want “white”
Acrylic/Oil: starting on a dark background,
then use opaque white

26. Eduoard Manet

27. Vincent Van Gogh oil Emile Nolde watercolor

28. Emile Nolde
Using acrylic AS IF it is
watercolor
thin watery layers (also called ‘glazes’)
Let each layer dry
‘reserve the white’

29. Richard
Diebenkorn
Semi-opaque
‘glazing’
semi-opaque
yellow is
painted over a
dark
background
and you see
the dark
peeking
through from
underneath

30. Helen Frankenthaler
Using acrylic AS IF it is watercolor
Pouring on flat paper or canvas

31. Acrylic or watercolor,
no matter what your
procedure, painting is
done in LAYERS
Let each layer DRY
before you go to the
next
Georgia O’Keefe, watercolorGrove Robinson Branch, acrylic

32. What is real
and what is
abstract?

33. ‘Real’ and ‘Abstract’ are relative
Robert Marosi
series, acrylic

34. Manet Monet Van Gogh
‘Real’ and ‘Abstract’ depend on an artist’s style

35. All ‘realism’ has abstract qualities, many artists like to emphasize both
John Singer Sargent, watercolor

36. How many ways are there
to use a brush?
• Wet-in-Wet
• Wet-over-dry
• Stamping, Rolling, Scratching
• Dry Brush
• Impasto
• Transparent glazes

37. Helen Frankenthaler

38. Mark Rothko

39. Fred Martin

40. Fred Martin

41. Abstract brush
energy is a great way
to paint trees

42. John Singer SargentJohn Singer Sargent

43. Melba
Cantu