Color that Sings Day Two - Portraits, Trees, Layers-Transparent and Opaque

DAY TWOCOLOR THAT SINGSPATTERN THAT MOVES

Asheville Art MuseumFall 2017

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

Ralph Nelson*

*Collection of Asheville Art Museum

Rod MacKillop* Walter Pach*

*AAM collection

How do you start?

Karl BodmerWilliam Bernstein*

Does realism mean it looks like a photograph?

What about suggestion?

Leaving something to the imagination?

Detail – take all the time you need

Manet Monet Van Gogh

What is ‘realism?’

Linda Larsen*

John Singer Sargent

Thin watery GlazesThick Impasto

Charles Demuth, 1930

“watercolor” techniqueWork from light to dark, allow each step to dry before proceeding to the next

Louise Stanley 1996

In ‘watercolor’ technique, color is LAYERED in TRANSPARENT washes

Emile Nolde / Georgia O’Keeffe

Emile Nolde

TREES

trees thrust out of the ground –they have figurative gesture

trees thrust out of the ground –they have figurative gesture

Leaves cluster in branches

Each branch has a top (sunlit)

and a bottom (shadowed)

Trees cast a shadow on the ground beneath them

Sunlight also comes throughthe branches (lit from behind)

John Singer Sargent

Leaves create patterns and energy

John Singer Sargent

Winslow Homer

Student work

suggest the leaves with improvised wet-in-wet blobs of color

Winslow Homer

Ann Cameron MacDonald*

Charles Hasz*

Sept 26 “Light” – dramatic light and shadow with warm/cool color combinations

Oct 3 “Layers” – painting in contrasting layers to enhance depth and energy

Oct 10 “Energy" – pattern and repetition

Oct 17 “Idea” - course project (2+ paintings due end of last class)

Oct 24 “Context” – contemporary and art historical frames of reference

Nov 7 “Critique“– and potluck