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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)