2021 colour study demo and talk, third session
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2021
- outdoor colour study demonstration with remarks throughout as well as half hour talk about the hensche approach to colour study at the 12th ending session, runs through full process of the approach in real time, colour masses, major colour variations, minor colour variations, all composed through structural planes, with continuous emphasis upon relational colour and the light key,
i try to explain the statement there are no values during the several vids, the short version is this, value scales are a model, models are a conceptual representation and not what is found in reality, attachment to models as if they are real is a perceptual bias which blinds people to the simple truth in front of their own eyes, the values system in painting was invented when there were few pigments available, and also when nothing was known about the characteristics/physics of light, a simple illustration is this- doing a charcoal drawing, what does one see when they look at the subject? they see colours and then attempt to calculate what level of grey that colour is, but even after the grey is lain upon the paper it has the appearance of colouration because the light reflecting from the supposed greys are coloured wavelengths in a specific combination, things are not lighter and deeper based upon a false values scale, they are what they are based upon the wavelength content reflected to the eye, one comes to understand this while painting with a full spectral range palette of colours and most easily seen outdoors, but it applies in all places at all times, values is the easy out because one never has to be completely specific in colouration, the local colour run through grey scale is usually sufficient as those ideas are applied, that has little to do with actual relational colouration where both in large notes as well as the modelling of forms it requires one to see a different colour every quarter inch, not a value difference but an actual change in hue, there are 3 brief axioms that hold true to what is actually before the eye whether it is seen by an individual or not, they are, nature does not repeat colours, no colour is a simple value change of its neighbor, and the transitional note between two colours is not an admixture of those two adjacent notes but a colour unlike either of those two, and it becomes more complex from there, as hensche said if people want to paint with antique/obsolete ideas (or wish to follow someone else's stylistic features) they are welcome to do so, but if they want to develop their own vision and their own perception and express that vision through their own ideas and abilities then they will have to follow a different agenda, in all of these materials on this channel i simply try to point out how what hensche taught is different from what others have taught or teach today, and as he said you cannot know what those differences actually are until you test it for yourself through study as he prescribed, it is a perceptual problem not a verbal problem,
Tuned in with razor sharp focus here; like a lost art form, this stuff is so elemental it's novel again. Maybe this generation will tire of the faux strategies they're trying so hard at and actually learn to paint for real. This is truly a gem of an education. Thank you GT :)
Anyway you might share where one could study with a Hensche protege like Al?
@@primitiveonpurpose are you referring to al guidry interview? what part of the county do you live in, here is link to colour study pdf, free download, more info than you will get from most humans, history and pics and demo, may help you get started, drive.google.com/file/d/1gGShE-0-NDGs1UJQIfHWFf9iNgsNBzBI/view
@@gtkerr2171 yes, I researched Mr. Guidry and found nothing. I teach art and practice art, but am somewhat new to this approach. Have studied some at Studio Incamminati where they share Hensche's approach. Please advise and forgive my ignorance.
@@primitiveonpurpose al passed away suddenly the year after our interview, it was part of a series he was working on, now lost, you must forgive an old mans cynicism but what is taught at incamminati has little to do with hensche, other than possibly the first lesson of overcolouring, henry was an iconoclast, and there was nothing he hated worse than academic formula painting dressed up in decorative colours, dan did some time with deloach and britt but he adapted what he got to the academic, all those that say they are a marriage of impressionist colour and classical drawing (and there are many hh students who claim that) are misleading those they teach and even those who buy their work, impressionist colour is relational colour and is drawn as light is drawn not as form is drawn, every aspect of that colour is antithetical to that other approach so in the end it is simply a decoration for academic drawing, and that's not what it is or what h taught, colour is structural and stands apart from the mental conceptual abstraction of drawing, sorry to get long winded but i have spent most of my adult life helping people to understand when they are being misled or lied to, it is nothing personal ,this is all about visual perceptual ideas, fundamental visual principles, and has little to do with pictorialism, peter guest would be best bet for teacher, lives in ny state but is not doing any classes at the moment,
@@gtkerr2171 your cynicism is refreshing and welcome. I'm really a student of art myself after 30 years teaching. In short, what you describe is genuinely true: the surface is there but it appears to be all and only surface, no depth of owning/earning the style or method, merely for the sake of the illusion of a (super)reality? Not condemning the Studio, just trying to get to the root of learning to see more naturally and to capture nature, in a genuinely, authentic, and truthful manner, not to sound redundant.
I'm saddened to learn of Al's passing and was afraid this was so. Seems I've a made a new friend who's already left us.
Thanks GT for the content and expertise. Meanwhile, "replay" on your AG videos is my best teacher yet. Sincerely thank you.
I'd like to study HH method with a living teacher. Do you happen to know how often peter guest usually teach? Like once a year? I'm living in Toronto, Canada- not too far from ny state. I watch your interview with Al, as well as your docs about peter and britt. It's really cool. I'm glad that you made your best effort to keep HH lineage alive. It's not an easy task. You're truly a Zen student of master HH.
chi i talked to peter and he says he no longer has the patience or energy to teach, most of us are over 70 so everything requires more effort and time to accomplish, just the nature of the beast, we were never built to last, glad that you have found some benefit from the things posted on this channel, if you follow the instruction in the colour study PDF and get yourself started you will have a better grasp of the ideas involved in this type study, i am working on the series first lessons which are intended to help the serious guide themselves, and i try to answer questions when they are clear and appropriate to the material, if you are on facebook you should join the henry hensche page as there are some helpful materials scattered among the irrelevancies,