Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. Painting in Layers
Painting with Impasto
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

2. painting is a
layered
experience

3. John Singer Sargent

4. Monet

5. Monet

6. dark
underpainting on
the bottom,
semi-transparent
layers on the top

7. Richard Diebenkorn

8. Win Di
Stefano

9. Win Di
Stefano

10. Underpainting is
brown
R.B. Kitaj

11. Bill Puetz

12. Ellke Ulmer

13. Ellke Ulmer

15. contrasting layers

16. Susan Scannon

24. bright
underneath and
dull on top

28. Suzy Barnard

29. Kathy
Wilson

30. transparent
layers

31. layers with transparent glazes

32. orange underneath and
dark blue on top
Georgia O’Keefe watercolor

33. Rico Lebrun ink on paper

34. the way
I do
transparent
layers

35. Hirsch

37. Hirsch

39. Hirsch

40. Hirsch

41. impasto painting with knives

43. Smearing, like butter on toast
Flat, minimal and smooth

44. Double-Loading and SMEARING 2 COLORS TOGETHER

45. Thin LINES
hard edged PATTERNS

46. Press and lift, use the TENSION of the blade
SCRATCHING and scraping

47. Change the PRESSURE of your hand, create thick and thin in flowing motion

48. Vincent Van Gogh

49. Vincent Van Gogh

50. Vincent Van Gogh

51. Vincent ink drawing in preparation for the painting

52. Vincent Van Gogh

53. Francis Bacon

54. Katy Holander

55. Katy Holander

56. Suzy Barnard

57. Suzy Barnard

58. Suzy Barnard

59. Eddie Fitzgerald

60. Eddie Fitzgerald

61. Eddie Fitzgerald

62. Eddie Fitzgerald

63. Eddie Fitzgerald