Glenn Hirsch, Instructor www.glennhirsch.com

1. Composition is the
arrangement of shapes
to keep the eye moving
with pleasure.
Glenn Hirsch

2. Ilya Repin

3. line has rhythm

5. Giovanni Tiepolo

6. Claude Lorraine

7. Victor Hugo

8. Paul Signac

9. Positive and Negative Shapes
create rhythm

10. M.C. Escher

11. Jackson
Pollock

12. Diebenkorn

13. Matisse

14. Picasso

15. Robert Bechtel, watercolor

16. DIAGONALS keep the eye moving

17. Gericault

18. Giovanni Tiepolo, 1760

19. Anders
Zorn

20. Anders Zorn, watercolor

21. Diebenkorn

22. Goya

23. John Singer
Sargent

24. Victor Hugo

25. Andrew Wyeth

26. watercolor and colored pencil

27. Stephen Scott Young, watercolor

28. Stephen Scott Young, watercolor

31. SCALE unites smaller shapes into large
shapes by unifying the color

32. Adam Hirsch

33. Nicolas Poussin

34. Nicolas Poussin

35. Chen Rong Nine Dragons 1244

36. Chen Rong Nine Dragons 1244

38. Victor Hugo

39. Richard Diebenkorn

40. translation of value
dark on top of light
light on top of dark

41. A ‘translation
of value’ white
against dark,
and dark
against light
Georges Seurat

42. Nicolas Poussin

43. Value studies are a means of simplifying, organizing, and
expressing the essential massing of light and dark.
To appreciate abstraction it’s important to understand that
this is really about structural contrasts and relationships,
not things.
Using a limited number of tones is a way to sift out the
clutter of small details to get to the poetry of the big
abstract tonal structure – the real bones of the subject.

44. Guercino

45. Caravaggio

46. Victor Hugo

47. Translation of value -
light against dark, and
dark against light.

48. Mo Seder

49. Illuminated Manuscripts
The word manuscript is derived from
the Latin words manus (hand) and
scriptus, from scribere (to write).
Illuminated, from the Latin illuminare
(to light up), denotes the glow created
by the radiant colors of the illustrations,
as well as by real gold and silver.

56. Positive and Negative Shape creates rhythm
Repetition creates rhythm
Scale creates impact
Diagonals keep the eye moving all over the picture
The exchange of value creates relationships