Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. What Have You Learned?
Colorful Painting
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

2. colorful painting review

3. 6/8 Light – painting procedure / warm-cool combinations
6/22 Mood - dramatic lighting (1) spotlight; (2) reflected light (from water);
(3) back light; (4) cast shadow; (5) glowing light (6) monochromatic color
6/29 Layers – contrasting layers, letting each layer ‘show’ through
7/6 Space - aerial perspective, landscape or architectural interiors
7/13 Style - master study
7/20 Series – experiment / (demo: watercolor trees)
7/27 Composition – arrangement of shape / (demo: watercolor abstraction)
8/2 Study - Museum Field Trip
8/3 Vermeer’s examples: “The Music Lesson” (composition) “Girl in the Red Hat”
(layered skin color)
8/10 Oil Painting (videos): History of Oils, Rembrandt, Alice Neel, Elizabeth Murray
8/17 Tonight: review
8/24 Next week: crit

4. procedure

5. Work from thin to thick, allowing each layer to dry

6. Background defines
the shape

7. Brush technique
•Wet-in-Wet
•Wet-over-dry

8. Glazes Impasto

9. • GLAZING is the contrast of layers
• Transparent layers over each other
• Each layer is painted, and then dried, before proceeding to the next

10. Layering – contrasts between one layer and another

11. an eye for detail

12. an eye for texture

13. ‘warm’ and ‘cool’
varieties of the
same color

15. Chromatic scale
• Light to dark
• Bright to dull
• Warm to cool

16. Student study of Winslow Homer

17. 1.Value
2.Spotlight
3.Reflected light from water
4.Back light
5.Cast shadow
6.Glowing light
7.Monochromatic color
dramatic light

18. “value’ = the black-and-white
of the color

19. chiaroscuro light
a spotlight

20. Reflected light from water

21. Back lighting
creates a ‘halo’
behind the
object

22. Cast shadow

23. Glowing Light
light is coming
from the object,
not
reflected
on it

24. monochromatic color

25. Space
‘aerial perspective’

27. color and
‘style’

28. Hiroshige
Manet
Rembrandt

29. Study and
response

30. Study of Van Gogh and response

31. Discovering a voice
in color by working
in ‘series’