Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. Week 1
Light and Contrast
ltd palette, 4 colors
Weeks 2-3
Light and Color –
warm & cool,
monochromatic
Weeks 4-5
Space and Texture –
landscape, palette knives
Weeks 6-7-8
Style and Technique –
master study & response
Weeks 9-10-11
Process
A series of 3+ paintings,
any subject matter
Week 12
Final crit

2. What is ‘style?’

3. Manet Monet Van Gogh

4. Hiroshige
Manet
Rembrandt

5. R. B. Kitaj

6. study of Stephen Brown and
self-portrait in his style
Maggie Engebretson

7. What’s the
procedure?

8. thumbnail sketch
first – block-in light
& shadow
No detail
Then paint (but the
painting doesn’t
have to follow the
sketch)

10. The brush changes direction, following the contour of the shapes

11. Work from thin to thick, allow each layer to dry, block in
the whole composition, including the light and shadow

12. Painting the
background also
redefines the edge
of the shape
(e.g., behind the
cheek)

13. What is ‘glazing?’

14. • GLAZING = transparent
layers over each other
• Each layer is painted,
then dried, before
proceeding to the next

15. Glazes Impasto

16. Paul Wonner

17. Claude Monet

19. Helen Frankenthaler

22. What is brush
technique?

23. How many ways are their to
use a brush?
• Wet-in-Wet
• Wet-over-dry
• Stamping, Rolling, Scratching
• Dry Brush
• Impasto
• Transparent glazes

24. John Singer Sargent Joan Mitchell

25. Marie-Genevieve Bouliar

26. Franz Hals

27. Eduoard Manet

28. Oskar Kokoschka, watercolor, 1930

29. Claude Monet

30. Is oil on canvas the
only procedure?

31. Deepa Goyal

32. Deepa Goyal

33. Elinor Cheung

34. Elinor Cheung

36. Florence McCafferty

37. detail

38. Why use ‘warm’
and ‘cool’ varieties
of the same color?

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

41. Dramatic light comes from
the contrast of light and
dark.
This is called “value” – the
black-and-white version of
the color.

42. Georgia O’Keefe

43. Monet

44. Student study of Winslow Homer

45. What is dramatic
lighting?

46. Monet

47. Claude Monet

48. Paul Wonner

49. Elmer
Bischoff

50. Andrew Wyeth

51. Maggie Engebretson

52. Rebecca O’Neill

53. tonight’s warm-up assignment
a tonal painting emphasizing “light”
using a
limited palette
(black, white, blue and brown)

56. Maggie
Engebretson

57. Ligia Zamara