What Have You Learned?

Watercolor Fundamentals

Glenn Hirsch, Instructorwww.glennhirsch.com

Andrew Wyeth

What does ‘glazing’ mean?

Andrew Wyeth, watercolor

Kevin Dame, student

What does ‘reserving the white’ mean?

Work from light to dark, reserving the white paper where you want white colorAllow each step to dry before proceeding to the next

Andrew Wyeth, watercolor

J.M.W. Turner, 1840

What does ‘aerial perspective’ mean?

John Singer Sargent, 1900

How have you learned to use the brush this semester?

StampingRollingScratchingDry BrushWet-in-WetWet-over-dry

Square watercolor brushTiny ‘script’ brushSpikey bamboo Sumi brush

Claude Lorraine, ink, 1630

Georgia O’Keeffe, watercolor, 1920

What about light and shadow?

Joseph Raphael, 1980

Louise Stanley, watercolor 1996

Student study of Winslow Homer

Why care about warm and cool versions of the same color?

Greenish blues?Purplish blues?Duller? Brighter?

Raoul Dufy, watercolor, 1920

Elizabeth Peyton, watercolor, 1995

Claes Oldenberg, watercolor study for a monumental sculpture

Emile Nolde, watercolor 1930

Emile Nolde, watercolor 1930

Emile Nolde, 1920

Charles Demuth, 1920

Robert Bechtel, watercolor, 1985

How patient are you?

How good is your drawing?

Robert Bechtel, watercolor, 1985

Oh my god!

Gustav Moreau, watercolor, 1885

Make/believe.

You make it.You believe in it.

Do you have to follow the photograph?

think with watercolor

Eugene Delacroix, 1835

Study for a large oil painting

Berthe Morisot, watercolor study, 1885

Field study, watercolor, 1850

Raoul Dufy, watercolor, 1910

How spontaneous are you?

Oskar Kokoschka, watercolor, 1930

John Singer Sargent, watercolor, 1910

Mark Rothko

Fred Martin

Fred Martin