Painting in LayersPainting with Impasto

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

painting is a layered

experience

John Singer Sargent

Monet

Monet

dark underpainting on

the bottom, semi-transparent layers on the top

Richard Diebenkorn

Win Di Stefano

Win Di Stefano

Underpainting is brown

R.B. Kitaj

Bill Puetz

Ellke Ulmer

Ellke Ulmer

contrasting layers

Susan Scannon

bright underneath and

dull on top

Suzy Barnard

Kathy Wilson

transparent layers

layers with transparent glazes

orange underneath and dark blue on top

Georgia O’Keefe watercolor

Rico Lebrun ink on paper

the way I do

transparent layers

Hirsch

Hirsch

Hirsch

Hirsch

impasto painting with knives

Smearing, like butter on toast

Flat, minimal and smooth

Double-Loading and SMEARING 2 COLORS TOGETHER

Thin LINES

hard edged PATTERNS

Press and lift, use the TENSION of the blade

SCRATCHING and scraping

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

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent ink drawing in preparation for the painting

Vincent Van Gogh

Francis Bacon

Katy Holander

Katy Holander

Suzy Barnard

Suzy Barnard

Suzy Barnard

Eddie Fitzgerald

Eddie Fitzgerald

Eddie Fitzgerald

Eddie Fitzgerald

Eddie Fitzgerald