Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. Watercolor Series Project
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

2. a series offers
variety on a
theme

3. A series can be versions of the same thing

4. a series can be versions of
different things which are related in
some way

7. a series can tell a story

8. a series can be experiments
to answer a question
e.g., what kind of background?

9. What are all the ways
light can be painted?

10. What are all the ways
that color can be
mixed?

11. how to paint leaves?

12. how to paint rubber and rusted metal?

15. how to paint the face?

16. a series can start with a master
study and then be applied to
original work
(study of Georgia O’Keefe)

17. (study of Emile Nolde)

20. (study of John Singer Sargent)

23. a series can start with a master study and
then be applied to original work
(study of Oscar Kokoschka)

25. Series Examples
Still Life

28. Series Examples
Abstraction

30. Series Examples
Portraits

42. Series Examples
Animals

57. Series Examples
Landscape

68. Series Examples
cityscape

82. Drawing in the Museum

83. Adam Hirsch

84. Pamela Lanza

87. Watercolor with
white paint

88. • White paint used as an ‘eraser’ to clean-up unwanted line

89. Step 1
White acrylic
on top of the
ink and
wash
Step 2
After white is
dry, more
transparent
ink washes
are applied

90. white
sponged
on top
of the
dark