Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. Mixed Media and Collage
Glenn Hirsch

2. What have we done so far?
Weeks 1 and 2
acrylic, ink and pastel
1. Painting with transparent wash wet-in-wet
2. Drawing with a pen
3. Painting with pastel
4. Painting with opaque paint

3. Week 3: Collage
edit and embrace
change

4. Jessica

5. light creates mystery

6. Aishlin

7. think about color

8. Jessica

9. rhythm
through
pattern and repetition

10. DeAnna

11. Helen

12. Rhythm through
positive and negative
shapes

13. Helen

14. silhouette
sil·hou·ette ˌsi-lə-ˈwet
: a dark shape in front of a light background or
the reverse
: the shape or outline of something

15. Liz

16. Philippe

17. think of a BIG shape
overlap shapes
of similar colors

18. Philippe

19. Alisha

20. Liz

21. collage with paint
Week 4
texture is pleasure

23. Aaron Dowell

24. Lyndsay Erickson

27. Elinor Cheung

28. Elinor Cheung detail

29. Rocco Grassano

30. Rocco Grassano

31. Lyndsay Gardner

32. Pam Pitt

33. Pam Pitt

34. Pam Pitt

35. 35
Peggy Millar

36. 36
Peggy Millar with in process

37. 37
Peggy Millar with in process

38. 38
Peggy Millar detail

39. Start with a
background first

40. Hirsch

41. Hirsch

42. (1) draw
(2) add collage
(3) paint
(4) Draw again

43. Use paint
to create
larger
shapes,
simplify the
composition,
make It
stronger, less
busy

44. Use paint to create larger shapes, simplify the composition, make It stronger, less busy

45. exotic materials
enigmatic text

46. exotic materials
sand added to paint
enigmatic text
xerox transparency with
words
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47. enigmatic text
painted over with semi-
opaque paint so it can
still be seen
It ‘whispers’ rather than
‘shouts’
exotic materials
shiny ‘joss paper"
used as "gold foil”
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48. try
editing
you
don’t
have to
use the
whole
thing

50. Laying strips
Clear medium
Ink glazing
Opaque gesso
Semi-opaque gesso
Decoupage textured surface
Acetate
Joss paper