• Special Message: We hope you can join us tomorrow for the YouTube Chat that should have been last week. Hopefully, with Roger's equipment repairs and software upgrades, we'll be back in
business. We'll be digging into edges! Sunday-March 26--2 p.m. Eastern! Here's another refurb from the Archive! When our surroundings are in direct sunlight, we think everything is being lit by the sun itself, but the sky is giving us a secondary light and surrounding areas yield a third light. The sun's direct rays are bathing what we see with warm light, the sky is reflecting cooler light in areas not directly hit by the sun's rays, and colors bounce from images adjacent to one another. I've done a little color experiment to show what happens. Here are four identical tea cups, each perched on the same red fabric, but each lit by a different color of light. Notice first how the red fabric affects the cup's color, then watch how all
colors change according to the color of light Here's an analysis of the same four areas of each cup and the red fabric. Under cool white light Now let's look at a side by side comparison. Notice the color changes, especially where the light's color mixes and changes the color of the red fabric itself. See why I keep talking about what color does to color? Enjoy a delightful and color-filled weekend! During my Language of Painting series, I explained the role of our visual elements. If you'd like to review those roles to better understand the behavior of elements, here are the links to each of those
discussions: Color --Value -- Shape -- Texture -- Size -- Line and Direction
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