Painting Intermediate - What Have You Learned?

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What Have You Learned?

Paint Intermediate Fall 2016

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

9/19 Color and “Light” – project 1 ltd palette underpainting project 2 monochromatic palette9/26 no class10/3 Color and “Light” – continue projects 1 and 210/10 Space – landscape – project #3 painting(s) emphasizing space 10/17 Space – architectural or abstract– continue project #310/23 SUNDAY 1pm-4pm studio visit to artist Travis Somerville San Francisco10/24 Style – investigating a master – project #4 master study and response10/31 Style – investigating a master – project #4 master study and response11/7 Series - exploring an original voice – project #5– series of paintings11/14 Portraits – drawing and painting the head – continue project #5 11/20 SUNDAY 11am-2pm studio visit to artist Zheng Chongbin San Rafael11/21 Zheng Chongbin / Portraits in a Dream11/28 What Have You Learned?12/5 Final crit – all assignments due

Work from thin to thick, allowing each layer to dry

Background defines the shape

Brush technique

Lucian Freud

Glazes Impasto

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

Layering – contrasts between one layer and another

an eye for detail

an eye for texture

‘warm’ and ‘cool’ varieties of the

same color

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

Student study of Winslow Homer

1.Value2.Spotlight3.Reflected light from water4.Back light 5.Cast shadow 6.Glowing light7.Monochromatic color

dramatic light

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

chiaroscuro light

a spotlight

Reflected light from water

Back lighting

creates a ‘halo’ behind the object

Cast shadow

Glowing Light

light is coming from the object, not reflected on it

monochromatic color

Space ‘aerial perspective’

color and ‘style’

Hiroshige

Manet

Rembrandt

Study and response

Study of Van Gogh and response

Discovering a voice in color by working in ‘series’

Peggy Millar

John Reamer

Maggie Engebretson

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

Van Gogh

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

Rembrandt 1610

Caravaggio 1605

Why do painters work in layers?

Joan Mitchell

Richard Diebenkorn

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

Morris Louis, 1959

12’ x 14’

What does “wet-in-wet” mean?

Monet detail

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

Chuck Close – series of portraits in different media and technique

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

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

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

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