This document provides instruction on painting techniques including how color is created through mixtures of pigments, how layers interact such as wet-on-dry and glazing, how light affects color perception through qualities like value, chiaroscuro, cast shadows, and monochromatic light. Examples of artists are given to illustrate techniques for creating texture, detail, and the illusion of deep space through color.

1. What Have You Learned So Far?
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

2. Hiroshige ManetRembrandt
color depends on mixtures of style
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3. variety of color depends on light
‘beauty’ depends on
variety of color

4. painting is a layered experience – contrasting layers

5. let each layer dry

6. background defines the shape

7. wet-over-dry
wet-in-wet

8. glazing means transparent layers over each other

9. glazes impasto

10. warm and cool varieties of each color

11. chromatic scale
light to dark
bright to dull
warm to cool

12. Student study of Winslow Homer

13. “value’ = the black-and-white
of the color

14. chiaroscuro light
means a spotlight
in a dark room
a theater stage
a dramatic space

15. light reflected from below

16. back lighting
glamorous and mystical
a halo

17. cast shadow directs the eye

18. glowing light
announces a
mystery

19. monochromatic light creates a strong mood
(Picasso Blue Period)

20. Kathy Wilson

21. color creates deep space
(pale tones recede)
Daniel Rabier
JMW Turner

22. an eye for texture

23. an eye for detail