Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. DAY TWO
COLOR THAT SINGS
PATTERN THAT MOVES
Asheville Art Museum
Fall 2017
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor
Ralph Nelson*
*Collection of
Asheville Art
Museum

2. Rod MacKillop* Walter Pach*
*AAM collection

3. How do you start?

7. Karl Bodmer
William Bernstein*
Does realism
mean it looks like
a photograph?
What about
suggestion?
Leaving
something to the
imagination?

10. Detail – take all the time you need

11. Manet Monet Van Gogh
What is ‘realism?’

12. Linda Larsen*

13. John Singer Sargent

16. Thin watery Glazes
Thick Impasto

17. Charles Demuth, 1930

18. “watercolor” technique
Work from light to dark, allow each step
to dry before proceeding to the next
Louise Stanley 1996

19. In ‘watercolor’ technique, color is LAYERED in TRANSPARENT washes
Emile Nolde / Georgia O’Keeffe

20. Emile Nolde

21. TREES

22. trees thrust
out of the
ground –
they have
figurative
gesture

23. trees thrust out of the ground –
they have figurative gesture

24. Leaves cluster
in branches
Each branch has
a top (sunlit)
and a
bottom
(shadowed)

25. Trees cast a
shadow on the
ground beneath
them

26. Sunlight
also comes
through
the
branches
(lit from
behind)

27. John Singer Sargent
Leaves create
patterns and energy
John Singer Sargent

28. Winslow Homer

29. Student work
suggest the
leaves with
improvised
wet-in-wet
blobs of
color
Winslow Homer

30. Ann Cameron
MacDonald*

31. Charles Hasz*

32. Sept 26 “Light” – dramatic light and shadow with warm/cool color combinations
Oct 3 “Layers” – painting in contrasting layers to enhance depth and energy
Oct 10 “Energy" – pattern and repetition
Oct 17 “Idea” - course project (2+ paintings due end of last class)
Oct 24 “Context” – contemporary and art historical frames of reference
Nov 7 “Critique“– and potluck