Monday, March 15, 2010

GRUPPE ON COLOR, 4

Gruppe
"When painting light trees like birches, don't darken the sky too much to show them up."

It would be pretty easy to overemphasize these contrasts. Along the Boise River, I notice that, while the trunks of the birches in sunlight arewhite, in shade they are darker, and the branches against the sky are significantly dark. The key here seems to be to observe the relationships, and not to exaggerate them out of proportion.

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