The document reviews different color qualities and techniques through examples of paintings. It discusses light through warm and cool color combinations. It explores layers with bright colors underneath dull colors on top. Monochromatic color schemes are used to create mood. Aerial perspective employs lighter and duller colors in the distance. Finally, it examines the expressive style choices of masters that students can emulate in their own work.

1. Color Review
Glenn Hirsch

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“Light” – warm/cool combinations
“Layers” – bright under, dull on top
“Mood” – monochromatic color schemes
“Space” – aerial perspective for near and far
“Style” – expressive choices made by masters

3. Review of color qualities:
“Light”

4. “Light” through combinations of color: warm/cool, bright/dull, light/dark.

5. Elmer Bischoff, c. 1960

7. “Theatrical” light:
(1)“spotlight” on the chair
(2)cast shadows
(3)A glow from the metallic surface of the chair.

9. “Theatrical” light:
(1)“spotlight” on the still life
(2)cast shadows
(3)A glow from the glass beaded curtain behind the vegetables and fruit.

11. Review of color qualities:
Layers

12. Layers:
Bright orange underneath
Dark, dull purple on top
The orange “peeks through”
(Emile Nolde, watercolor)

13. Layers:
Bright orange underneath
Dark, dull purple on top
The orange “peeks through”
(Mark Rothko, oil)

14. The bottom layer for this student painting was red – see the next slide

16. Layers:
So much paint that it creates texture – the brush is then dragged on top of the bumpy texture to create
still more layers of ‘broken color’ with a ‘dry brush’ technique
(Claude Monet, oil)

17. Layers:
Even when you build up the paint in thick layers, you can still let some of the bottom layer show through
(Bill Puetz, student work, acrylic)

18. Review of color qualities:
Monochromatic Color

20. Monochromatic color
(Philip Guston, oil)

21. Monochromatic color: The Fall of Icarus”
(student Susannah Baine, acrylic)

22. Monochromatic color can be used to create mood and time of day

23. Hirsch

24. Hirsch and Lanza

25. Review of color qualities:
“Space”

26. Aerial perspective – objects in the distance are (1) lighter in value (2) duller in intensity (3) cooler in value
– compared to the foreground
(photograph)

27. Aerial perspective – objects in the distance are (1) lighter in value (2) duller in intensity (3) cooler in value
– compared to the foreground
(Student painting by Jay Glimme, acrylic on paper)

28. (Pieter Brueghel, c.1660 “Hunters in the Snow”)

29. Review of color qualities:
“Style”

30. Student painting (top)
based on a master study
of Elmer Bischoff
(bottom)

31. Master study and translation of Van Gogh
(student work, acrylic)

32. (Berthe Morisot, c. 1875)

33. An example of a series of
abstractions
(Student Jacob Fisher, acrylic on paper)