Color that Sings 2018 Day Two - Painting the Apple Color and Concept
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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
Next two weeks: learn by studying a master that you love