NATURAL ORDER. On my last Facebook post, I was asked what accounts for lively color in our paintings, as opposed to feeling flat and uninteresting. A subject I truly love, and always work at with fascination. I attempted a short answer to my friends question, but the answer is actually too complex to address in a paragraph. So, I decided that a picture is worth a thousand words (I just thought that up!), and here is a demonstration of what I said, showing the resulting color harmony that results from giving attention to the elements of light. A number of things affect the appearance of color in our paintings, and it's mostly a matter of relationship (the scale of light and dark). A clear separation of value steps is the beginning of beautiful color relationship. In daylight there is something like 3 or 4 steps between the lighted portion of an object and the part which is in the shade (I use a nine step value scale). This separation will hold true for every o...
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