Thursday, September 29, 2016

Thursday, September 29 2016
NO CLASS THIS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4

Find a transparent water color painting

Watercolor vs. Oil painting 

Painting Media

Encaustic

Fresco

—buon-fresco Mural (sect means dry) apply water based paint plaster to the wall, soaks into the wall and becomes the wall, No longer in the modern world commonly. 

Time consuming. 

(The School of Athens Raphael 1510-11 Fresco)

Egg Tempera

—yolk of an egg thinned with water, becomes permanent, yellow of the egg dulls  the color

(Braids Andrew Wyeth 1979 Egg Tempera on Canvas)

Oil

The most popular Pigment+linseed oil—(Comes from flax plant)

Cleaned up with turpentine 

Kind of like toothpaste when it comes out of the tube.

Generally painted on canvas

Glaze:

(same word as glass)

A way of painting in oil paint, not very popular today.

There are two ways of oil painting 

indirect method—make a color translucent painting. to change color

Glade only placed on shade part

Creates Luminosity

(Man in Red Rurban Jan Eyck 1433 Oil on Pannel)

Direct method

Direct application of paint

Vincent van Gogh irises

Watercolor

Transparent water color

Gouache Water color

Brushes are normally plastic

Transparent Watercolor Painting

-The white parts in a watercolor painting are paper not paint

Normally painted light to dark 

A good transparent watercolor will always look wet

Opeac/Gouache Watercolor Painting

Layer upon layer, more like poster paint.-non toxic

Self Portrait Mary Cassat 1979 Gouache

Acrylic

—synthetic paint. Wasn’t developed till the 1970s

Day glow bright colors

Tahkt-I-Sulayman, Frank Stella 1967- acrylic

Gesso

White chalky liquid, that neutralizes the surface of canvas, panel, etc. makes it able to paint on.

“Grisaille”

-a method of painting in gray monochrome, typically to imitate sculpture.

Painting Vocabulary

Pigment=Color Particles

Medium or Binder=

—Substance that holds the pigment. (essentially the glue that holds the pigment)

Solvent

—Substance that thins the medium and pigment

Support or Substrate:

Canvas, wood paper etc.

Encaustic: Paint with wax.

Young woman with Gold Pectoral Egypt Roman

Painting Terms/Techniques

Impasto

A thick application of paint

Wash

A very thin application of paint

Less medium and more pigment

Mostly used in water color