painting is a layered experience

Painting in LayersPainting with Impasto

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

painting is a layered

experience

John Singer Sargent

Monet

Monet

dark underpainting on

the bottom, semi-transparent layers on the top

Richard Diebenkorn

Underpainting is brown

R.B. Kitaj

Ellke Ulmer

bright underneath and

dull on top

Suzy Barnard

contrasting layers

Jeffrey Tover

transparent layers

layers with transparent glazes

the way I do

transparent layers

Hirsch

Hirsch

Hirsch

“Flower Child” mixed media on paper 32”x50”

“Throne” mixed media on paper 32”x50”

Hirsch

“Codex” mixed media on paper 22”x60”

“Free Spirit” mixed media on paper 22”x60”

“Ghost Ship” mixed media on paper 22”x60”

“Encryption” mixed media on paper 22”x60”

impasto painting with knives

Smearing, like butter on toast

Flat, minimal and smooth

Double-Loading and SMEARING 2 COLORS TOGETHER

Thin LINES

hard edged PATTERNS

Press and lift, use the TENSION of the blade

SCRATCHING and scraping

Change the PRESSURE of your hand, create thick and thin in flowing motion

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent ink drawing in preparation for the painting

Suzy Barnard

Suzy Barnard

Suzy Barnard

Eddie Fitzgerald

Eddie Fitzgerald

Eddie Fitzgerald

Eddie Fitzgerald

Eddie Fitzgerald

Ken Gorczyca

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