painting class course overview

Color Review

Glenn Hirsch

• “Light” – warm/cool combinations• “Layers” – bright under, dull on top• “Mood” – monochromatic color schemes• “Space” – aerial perspective for near and far• “Style” – expressive choices made by masters

Review of color qualities:

“Light”

“Light” through combinations of color: warm/cool, bright/dull, light/dark.

Elmer Bischoff, c. 1960

“Theatrical” light:(1)“spotlight” on the chair (2)cast shadows (3)A glow from the metallic surface of the chair.

“Theatrical” light:(1)“spotlight” on the still life(2)cast shadows (3)A glow from the glass beaded curtain behind the vegetables and fruit.

Review of color qualities:

Layers

Layers:Bright orange underneathDark, dull purple on topThe orange “peeks through” (Emile Nolde, watercolor)

Layers:Bright orange underneathDark, dull purple on topThe orange “peeks through” (Mark Rothko, oil)

The bottom layer for this student painting was red – see the next slide

Layers:So much paint that it creates texture – the brush is then dragged on top of the bumpy texture to create still more layers of ‘broken color’ with a ‘dry brush’ technique(Claude Monet, oil)

Layers:Even when you build up the paint in thick layers, you can still let some of the bottom layer show through

(Bill Puetz, student work, acrylic)

Review of color qualities:

Monochromatic Color

Monochromatic color(Philip Guston, oil)

Monochromatic color: The Fall of Icarus”(student Susannah Baine, acrylic)

Monochromatic color can be used to create mood and time of day

Hirsch

Hirsch and Lanza

Review of color qualities:

“Space”

Aerial perspective – objects in the distance are (1) lighter in value (2) duller in intensity (3) cooler in value – compared to the foreground(photograph)

Aerial perspective – objects in the distance are (1) lighter in value (2) duller in intensity (3) cooler in value – compared to the foreground(Student painting by Jay Glimme, acrylic on paper)

(Pieter Brueghel, c.1660 “Hunters in the Snow”)

Review of color qualities:

“Style”

Student painting (top)

based on a master study of Elmer Bischoff (bottom)

Master study and translation of Van Gogh (student work, acrylic)

(Berthe Morisot, c. 1875)

An example of a series of abstractions (Student Jacob Fisher, acrylic on paper)