Week 1

Light and Contrast ltd palette, 4 colors

Weeks 2-3

Light and Color –warm & cool, monochromatic

Weeks 4-5

Space and Texture –landscape, palette knives

Weeks 6-7-8

Style and Technique –master study & response

Weeks 9-10-11

ProcessA series of 3+ paintings, any subject matter

Week 12

Final crit

What is ‘style?’

Manet Monet Van Gogh

Hiroshige

Manet

Rembrandt

R. B. Kitaj

study of Stephen Brown and self-portrait in his style

Maggie Engebretson

What’s the procedure?

thumbnail sketch first – block-in light & shadow

No detail

Then paint (but the painting doesn’t have to follow the sketch)

The brush changes direction, following the contour of the shapes

Work from thin to thick, allow each layer to dry, block in the whole composition, including the light and shadow

Painting the background also redefines the edge of the shape

(e.g., behind the cheek)

What is ‘glazing?’

• GLAZING = transparent layers over each other

• Each layer is painted, then dried, before proceeding to the next

Glazes Impasto

Paul Wonner

Claude Monet

Helen Frankenthaler

What is brush technique?

How many ways are their to use a brush?

• Wet-in-Wet• Wet-over-dry• Stamping, Rolling, Scratching• Dry Brush

• Impasto• Transparent glazes

John Singer Sargent Joan Mitchell

Marie-Genevieve Bouliar

Franz Hals

Eduoard Manet

Oskar Kokoschka, watercolor, 1930

Claude Monet

Is oil on canvas the only procedure?

Deepa Goyal

Deepa Goyal

Elinor Cheung

Elinor Cheung

Florence McCafferty

detail

Why use ‘warm’ and ‘cool’ varieties of the same color?

Chromatic scale

• Light to dark• Bright to dull• Warm to cool

Dramatic light comes from the contrast of light and dark.

This is called “value” – the black-and-white version of the color.

Georgia O’Keefe

Monet

Student study of Winslow Homer

What is dramatic lighting?

Monet

Claude Monet

Paul Wonner

Elmer Bischoff

Andrew Wyeth

Maggie Engebretson

Rebecca O’Neill

tonight’s warm-up assignment

a tonal painting emphasizing “light”

using a limited palette

(black, white, blue and brown)

Maggie Engebretson

Ligia Zamara