Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. What Have You Learned?
Paint Intermediate Fall 2016
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

2. 9/19 Color and “Light” – project 1 ltd palette underpainting project 2 monochromatic palette
9/26 no class
10/3 Color and “Light” – continue projects 1 and 2
10/10 Space – landscape – project #3 painting(s) emphasizing space
10/17 Space – architectural or abstract– continue project #3
10/23 SUNDAY 1pm-4pm studio visit to artist Travis Somerville San Francisco
10/24 Style – investigating a master – project #4 master study and response
10/31 Style – investigating a master – project #4 master study and response
11/7 Series - exploring an original voice – project #5– series of paintings
11/14 Portraits – drawing and painting the head – continue project #5
11/20 SUNDAY 11am-2pm studio visit to artist Zheng Chongbin San Rafael
11/21 Zheng Chongbin / Portraits in a Dream
11/28 What Have You Learned?
12/5 Final crit – all assignments due

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

4. Background defines
the shape

5. Brush technique
Lucian Freud

6. Glazes Impasto

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

8. Layering – contrasts between one layer and another

9. an eye for detail

10. an eye for texture

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

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

14. Student study of Winslow Homer

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

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

17. chiaroscuro light
a spotlight

18. Reflected light from water

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

20. Cast shadow

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

22. monochromatic color

23. Space
‘aerial perspective’

25. color and
‘style’

26. Hiroshige
Manet
Rembrandt

27. Study and
response

28. Study of Van Gogh and response

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

30. Peggy Millar

31. John Reamer

32. Maggie Engebretson

33. How can the illusion of near and far (“aerial
perspective”) in a landscape be enhanced
by manipulating the color?

34. Van Gogh

35. Theatrical chiaroscuro light (in which
the subject emerges from the
shadow) was first developed by
which painters?

36. Rembrandt 1610
Caravaggio 1605

37. Why do painters work in layers?

38. Joan Mitchell

41. Richard Diebenkorn

43. What does “glazing” mean? Why do
painters use it?

44. Morris Louis,
1959
12’ x 14’

45. What
does
“wet-in-
wet”
mean?
Monet
detail

46. What does “working in series”
mean? Why are reasons that artists
do this?

47. Chuck Close – series of portraits in different media and technique

62. What do the terms “warm’ color
and “cool” color mean?

72. What is the black-and-white quality
of a painting called?

77. “Emotion in art only depends on the
subject matter depicted.” True/false