The document outlines a painting lesson by Glenn Hirsch focused on the use of color and light, emphasizing techniques such as glazing and chromatic scales to enhance the perception of light in artwork. It discusses the contrast of warm and cool colors and provides a step-by-step review of painting techniques, including sketching and layering. Additionally, it offers examples of still life paintings and highlights famous artists who utilized these techniques.

1. Painting Intermediate
First Lesson
Glenn Hirsch

2. Contents
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Color and Light
Chromatic Scales to enhance “Light”
Review of Painting Technique
Limited Palette Paintings Emphasizing “Light”
Chromatic Scales examples (apples)

3. PART I
Color and Light

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‘light’ = ‘emotion’ = ‘contrast’
contrast of light and dark
contrast of orange against purple
Contrast of layers: the dark purple is painted on top of the orange under-layer
The technique is called ‘GLAZING”
Transparent layers over each other
Each layer is painted, and then dried, before proceeding to the next

5. Light can also be found
in an abstract painting

6. Part II
Warm/cool color concept in
“Chromatic Scales”

7. • Contrast of
warm and cool
versions of each
color

9. Chromatic scale in
reds to enhance
the illusion of
“light”
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Lighter b/w value in the light
Brighter intensity in the light
Warmer (orangey) red in the
light (vs bluer purplish) red in
the shadow

10. Chromatic scale
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Step by Step:
Light to dark
Bright to dull
Warm to cool

11. Black and white is the
“value” of the color

14. • Chromatic scale

15. • Monet
• Variety of
warm and cool
blues
• Dragged into
each other
wet-into-wet

16. • This isn’t a ‘rule,’
it’s a ‘recipe’ to
enhance the
illusion of ‘light’

17. Part III
Review of Painting Technique

19. • First do a
thumbnail sketch
on a separate
piece of paper
• No detail – block
in the light &
shadow

20. • A very rough
‘thumbnail’
sketch on a
separate piece of
paper first

21. • First step
• Block in the
whole
composition,
including the
light and shadow

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Then let dry and clarify
Painting the
background also
redefines the edge of
the foreground shape
(eg, in this case, the
cheek)

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Painting in transparent
layers = “glazing”
step 1
let it dry
then step 2

24. Part IV
A Limited Palette Painting
(black, white, blue and brown)

31. Part V
“Chromatic Scales”
Examples: still life (apples)

32. • Make the color
‘sing’ with
contrast of
light/dark and
warm/cool

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Chromatic scale
Oil (Georgia O’Keefe)

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Chromatic scale Watercolor (Charles Demuth)

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Chromatic scale Acrylic (Robert Haemmerling)

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Jos Van Riswick

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Famous artists practice
apples (Paul Cezanne)

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Paul Cezanne