Week 1 Light and Contrast Mixing Color, ltd palette, 4 colorsWeeks 2-3

Light and Color – warm & cool, monochromatic

Week 4 holiday – no classWeeks 5-6

Space and Texture – landscape

Weeks 7-8

Style and Technique – master study & response(+Sunday museum field trip)

Weeks 9-10-11-12

Student choicea series of 3+ paintings, any subject matter

Week 13

Final crit

Landscape SpaceArchitectural Space

Abstract Space

Glenn Hirsch

The sky is timeless – the clouds look the same way now as they did a thousand years ago

A low horizon line emphasizes the freedom of the sky Van Gogh

The sky is universal – light is understood by all cultures Joseph Turner

Twilight is the boundary between consciousness and dreams Caspar David Friedrich

Twilight is the boundary between consciousness and dreams Daniel Rabier, student

Twilight is the boundary between consciousness and dreams Daniel Rabier, student

Twilight is the boundary between consciousness and dreams Suzy Barnard

aerial perspective

As objects recede in a landscape space, they appear:

Lighter in valueDuller in intensityCooler in temperature

Aerial perspective – things far away lighter, duller, cooler, compared to the foreground

Aerial perspective – things far away lighter, duller, cooler, compared to the foreground

Aerial perspective – things far away lighter, duller, cooler, compared to the foreground

Student work

Claude Monet

Hirsch watercolor

Linear Perspective

Andy Slaton

Aerial perspective – things far away lighter, duller, cooler, compared to the foreground

Aerial perspective – things far away lighter, duller, cooler, compared to the foreground Jay Glimme

Piero Della Francesca

Edward Hopper

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Gustave Caillebotte

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Robert Birmelin

Robert Birmelin

Robert Birmelin

Window View(a painting within a painting)

Constance Marie Charpentier

Rogier van der Weyden

Edward Hopper

space in abstraction

Arshile Gorky

Space can be flat. Flat patterns of shapes on a flat background.

Space can have depth. The viewer sees into a window in which the shapes “swim.”

PicabiaKandinsky

Space can be flat. Flat patterns of shapes on a flat background.

Space can have depth. The viewer sees into a window in which the shapes “swim.”

J.M. W. Turner