Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. Landscape in Watercolor
Glenn Hirsch
Watercolor Fundamentals
UC Berkeley Extension

2. next two assignments:
paintings using one or all
of these ideas
Sky and Trees
Aerial Perspective
Linear Perspective
Aqueous Perspective

3. to see trees you look up

4. Kevin Dame, student work

5. to see trees you look down

6. Student work

7. trees are strong

8. Student work

10. leaves have energy

11. John Singer Sargent

12. Hirsch

13. leaves don’t have to be green

14. Student work

15. Student work

16. Student work

17. trees create a story

18. Student work

19. Student work

20. Student work

21. tree technique

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

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

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

25. Trees cast a
shadow on
the ground
beneath them

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

27. Student work
Sunlight also comes through
the branches (lit from behind)

28. Student work
In watercolor,
you can
illustrate the
leaves with
precise
drawing
carefully
colored-in

29. Student work
In watercolor, you
can suggest the
leaves with
improvised wet-in-
wet blobs of color

30. Student work

31. Student work

32. atmospheric
“aerial”
perspective

33. This photo illustrates aerial perspective – things far away look duller and lighter compared to the foreground

34. Claude Lorraine

35. Joseph Turner

36. Joseph Turner

37. Hirsch

38. Student work

39. Student work

40. Linear Perspective

41. Robert Bechtle

42. Edward Hopper

43. Edward Hopper

44. Hirsch

45. Student work

46. water
(aqueous perspective)

47. John Singer Sargent

48. Winslow Homer

49. Winslow Homer

50. Student work

51. Student work

52. Student work

53. next two assignments:
paintings using one or all
of these ideas
Sky and Trees
Aerial Perspective
Linear Perspective
Aqueous Perspective