Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. Week 1
Light and Contrast
Mixing Color,
ltd palette, 4 colors
Weeks 2-3
Light and Color –
warm & cool,
monochromatic
Week 4 holiday – no class
Weeks 5-6
Space and Texture –
landscape
Weeks 7-8
Style and Technique –
master study & response
(+Sunday museum field trip)
Weeks 9-10-11-12
Student choice
a series of 3+ paintings,
any subject matter
Week 13
Final crit

2. Landscape Space
Architectural Space
Abstract Space
Glenn Hirsch

3. The sky is timeless – the clouds look the same way now as they did a thousand years ago

4. A low horizon line emphasizes the freedom of the sky Van Gogh

5. The sky is universal – light is understood by all cultures Joseph Turner

6. Twilight is the boundary between consciousness and dreams Caspar David Friedrich

7. Twilight is the boundary between consciousness and dreams Daniel Rabier, student

8. Twilight is the boundary between consciousness and dreams Daniel Rabier, student

9. Twilight is the boundary between consciousness and dreams Suzy Barnard

10. aerial perspective
As objects recede in a landscape space, they appear:
Lighter in value
Duller in intensity
Cooler in temperature

11. Aerial perspective – things far away lighter, duller, cooler, compared to the foreground

12. Aerial perspective – things far away lighter, duller, cooler, compared to the foreground

13. Aerial perspective – things far away lighter, duller, cooler, compared to the foreground

14. Student work

16. Claude Monet

17. Hirsch watercolor

18. Linear Perspective

19. Andy Slaton

20. Aerial perspective – things far away lighter, duller, cooler, compared to the foreground

21. Aerial perspective – things far away lighter, duller, cooler, compared to the foreground Jay Glimme

22. Piero Della Francesca

23. Edward Hopper

25. Gustave Caillebotte

28. Robert Birmelin

29. Robert Birmelin

30. Robert Birmelin

31. Window View
(a painting within a painting)

32. Constance Marie Charpentier

33. Rogier van der Weyden

34. Edward Hopper

35. space in abstraction

36. Arshile Gorky
Space can be flat. Flat patterns of
shapes on a flat background.
Space can have depth. The viewer
sees into a window in which the
shapes “swim.”

37. PicabiaKandinsky
Space can be flat. Flat patterns of
shapes on a flat background.
Space can have depth. The viewer
sees into a window in which the
shapes “swim.”

38. J.M. W. Turner