Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. Colorful Painting 2015
Day One
Glenn Hirsch

2. 6/8 Project 1: Light
6/15 NO CLASS
6/22 Project 2: Mood - Monochromatic color
6/29 Project 3: Layers – Contrasting Color
7/6 Project 4: Space - landscape or architectural interior
7/13 Project 5: Style - master study
7/20 Studio – catch-up on all assignments so far
7/27 Project 6: Series – 3+ paintings
8/2 (SUNDAY) 930am-1pm Legion of Honor (sketches in museum)
8/3 Series project continues
8/10 Series project continues
8/17 Series project continues
8/24 Final crit (all assignments due)

3. Color theory to enhance the illusion
of “light”

4. What’s the ‘true
color’ of the
house?
It depends on the
time of day and
the weather
The ‘real’ color
doesn’t exist
independently
of the light

5. Claude Monet painted ‘white marble’ on the Rouen Cathedral in different
times of day, showing that color doesn’t exist independently of the light

6. Since color is “relative,” we use warm and cool versions of each color to
enhance the feeling of “light”

7. Chromatic scale 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) in
the shadow

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

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

11. Chromatic scale

12. Chromatic scale

14. Georgia O’Keefe

15. Student study of Cezanne

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

17. Robert Haemmerling

18. ‘light’ = ‘emotion’
the contrast of light and dark
the variety of warm and cool

19. Monet

20. Berthe
Morisot

21. Berthe Morisot “La Fable”

22. Rembrandt

23. John Singer Sargent

24. John Singer Sargent

25. John Singer Sargent

26. Winslow Homer

27. Maurice de Vlaminck

28. Alexei Jawlensky

29. Paul Gauguin

30. Emile Nolde

31. Peter Doig

32. R. B. Kitaj

33. Melissa Miller

34. Fred Martin

35. The “language of light”

37. Monochromatic
color schemes
enhance a
particular mood
Wolan Huang

40. “Theatrical” light: spotlight, cast shadow, metallic glow

42. (Johannes Vermeer, 1665)

43. Glowing, mystical,
supernatural light - the
light isn't falling on the
flower, the light is
coming from it. It is the
source of the light.
Georgia O'Keefe

44. Matthias Grünewald
Isenheim Altarpiece 1615

45. Hirsch

46. Moonlight is very evocative light for the artist

47. Hirsch

48. Light can be found in an abstract painting
Graham Sutherland

49. Francis Picabia
1913

50. tonight’s warm-up assignment
a tonal painting emphasizing “light”
using a
limited palette
(black, white, blue and brown)