Apple PaintingConcept and

Color

Color that Sings 2018

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

Asheville Jewish Community Center

Gavin Turk 2005Liam Brazier 2014

Concept (verbal)

• Observation• Allegory, Myth• Dream

Color (visual)

• Light and Shadow• Color variety• Brush variety• Abstraction

It is about the ‘apple’

Painting the apple to record nature, as scientific observation (horticulture)

Concept

It’s not about the ‘apple’apple as symbol, allegory, dream

Renee Magritte, 1948

Concept

Suzanne Valedon 1909William Blake, 1801Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1540

Achille Funi 1921 Anna Myranda, 2012 (sculpture)

Color(visual)

• Light and Shadow• Color variety• Brush variety• Abstraction

Chris Cook 2001

Wayne Thiebaud, 1990 Anne Goldberg, 2010

Paul Cezanne, 1901Euan Uglow, 1990

Contemporary painting Children’s art

Dramatic staging as if on a ‘theater stage’this

not this

Color Theory

The ‘Chromatic Scale’

‘warm’ and ‘cool’ varieties of the same color

Chromatic scale

the ‘chromatic scale’ to enhancethe illusion of “light”

• Value: Light to dark

• Variety: Warm to cool

Josef Albers 1930 Georgia O’Keeffe

Brush technique

Watercolor Acrylic

Thin watery glazes Thick impasto

The brush changes direction, following the contour of the shapes

Watercolor techniqueLet each layer dry before going to the next

Contrasting underpainting

yellow/green and then red on top

Have fun with this!Color

DesignImagination

Jamie Stobie student work

Student painted a study (copy) of Elmer Bischoff, and then did a second painting of her daughter in that style

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