What Have You Learned?

Painting Intermediate

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

What’s the procedure?

Glazes Impasto

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

Andrew Wyeth, watercolor

Fred Martin

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

Fred Martin

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?’

What is ‘style?’

• 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?

Have fun tonight