This document provides painting techniques and tips, including: 1. Controlling tone with water, reserving white spaces, and suggesting space with drips and shapes. 2. Positive and negative painting of shapes, shading, and using thick and thin brush strokes. 3. Examples of painters who worked with space, such as Richard Diebenkorn and Mark Rothko.

1. Pen, Ink, Brush and Flow
Glenn Hirsch

3. • Control the tone dilute with water
• Reserve the white
• Suggest a space
• Drip for tone and texture
• Paint shapes positive and negative
• Paint lines thick and thin
• Paint shadows!

4. control the tone
dilute with water

5. reserve the
white
define white
shapes by
painting around
them
Richard Diebenkorn

6. Mark Rothko

7. Paint space and distance - light tones recede

9. Positive shape and negative shape

10. shading

11. Script Brush
tiny and
long
Drawing
lines
Thick and
thin

12. Wet into wet for texture

13. Chen Rong
Nine Dragons
1244

17. Giovanni Tiepolo
Italian 1696-1770

18. Giovanni Tiepolo,
1760

21. Victor Hugo
French 1802-1885

27. Pablo Picasso
Spanish 1881-1973

29. Script Brush
tiny and
long

31. Richard Diebenkorn
Amierican 1922-1993

35. drawing over random wash

45. Drawing with
white paint
on top

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

47. white
sponged
on top
of the
dark

48. • Acrylic paint used as an ‘eraser’ to clean-up unwanted line

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

50. Pouring

51. Go forth and drip

56. Glenn Hirsch