Watercolor and the Life of Trees
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This document outlines the schedule and topics for a watercolor fundamentals class at UC Berkeley Extension taught by Glenn Hirsch. The class will cover techniques like brushwork and abstraction in the first few sessions. Later sessions will focus on color theory and applying it to landscapes, still lifes, and people. Students will work on a course project and go on a field trip to the Legion of Honor museum. The class will conclude with a final critique and party. Tree painting techniques are also discussed, including showing their gesture, layers of leaves, cast shadows, and ways to illustrate or suggest leaves in the painting.
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Watercolor and the Life of Trees
- 1. Glenn Hirsch Watercolor Fundamentals UC Berkeley Extension Sky and Trees Aerial Perspective Linear Perspective
- 2. 6/18 Brush technique, brush play and abstraction 6/25 Color Theory I -- the illusion of "light" - painting a still life 7/2 NO CLASS 7/9 Color Theory II – Master Study HW: translation 7/16 Color Theory III – illusion of "space": landscape and trees 7/23 More with landscape 7/30 Painting people 8/6 Course Project: working in "series" extended session (10am-4pm) 8/7 (SUNDAY) 930am-1pm Legion of Honor: Museum Field trip 8/13 Mixed Media – opaque and transparent approaches 8/20 Finishing Touches Extended session: 10am-2pm 8/27 Final critique and party
- 4. aerial perspective – things far away look duller and lighter compared to the foreground
- 5. aerial perspective – things far away look duller and lighter compared to the foreground
- 9. Hirsch
- 10. Meredith Trauner
- 11. Aerial perspective is not a ‘rule’ it’s a ‘recipe’ to use or not to use
- 13. Robert Bechtle
- 14. Edward Hopper
- 16. Hirsch
- 17. Student work
- 18. TREES
- 19. to see trees you look up
- 20. Kevin Dame
- 21. to see trees you look down
- 23. trees are strong
- 32. Winslow Homer
- 33. Winslow Homer
- 34. Winslow Homer
- 35. Winslow Homer
- 36. leaves don’t have to be green
- 38. Student work
- 39. trees create a story
- 40. Student work
- 41. Student work
- 42. Student work
- 43. tree technique
- 44. trees thrust out of the ground – they have figurative gesture
- 45. trees thrust out of the ground – they have figurative gesture
- 46. trees thrust out of the ground – they have figurative gesture
- 47. Leaves cluster in branches Each branch has a top (sunlit) and a bottom (shadowed)
- 48. Trees cast a shadow on the ground beneath them
- 51. you can illustrate the leaves with precise drawing carefully colored-in
- 52. Student work Or you can suggest the leaves with improvised wet-in-wet blobs of color
- 55. Jessica Riano