What Have You Learned?
Painting Intermediate
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor
What’s the procedure?
Work from thin to thick, allowing each layer to dry
• Painting the background redefines the edge of the shape
• (eg, the cheek)
What is dramatic lighting?
Andrew Wyeth, watercolor
Kevin Dame, student
Georgia O’Keeffe, watercolor, 1920
Louise Stanley, watercolor 1996
What is ‘glazing?’
• GLAZING is the contrast of layers
• Transparent layers over each other
• Each layer is painted, and then dried, before proceeding to the next
• (In the painting above, the top color is the dark purple)
• Painting in transparent layers = “glazing”
• step 1• let it dry• then step 2
How can you use the background to define the shape of the object?
Why use ‘warm’ and ‘cool’ varieties of the same color?
Student study of Winslow Homer
Chromatic scale
• Light to dark• Bright to dull• Warm to cool
What does ‘aerial perspective’ mean?
J.M.W. Turner, 1840
Robert Bechtel, watercolor, 1985
What is brush technique?
John Singer Sargent, 1900
How many ways are their to paint?
•Wet-in-Wet•Wet-over-dry•Stamping•Rolling•Scratching•Dry Brush
•Impasto•Transparent
•Square brush (“Flat”)•Oval brush (“Bright”)•Tiny brush (“Script”)•Spikey brush with bamboo handle (“Sumi”)
Oskar Kokoschka, watercolor, 1930
Painting in contrasting
layers(on a dark
background)
What is a ‘series?’
• On the left, a study of Elmer Bischoff, and on the right, the student then painted her daughter
Using the photo and a painting by Masaccio
as references for the wedding portrait in the center
What about the imagination?
Gustav Moreau
Make/believe.
You make it.You believe in it.
Do you have to follow the photo?