Textures: Morning Light on Li River
Textures, Morning Light on Li River
1/2" x 5" x 10" acrylic on gessoed panel
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This is the third and last in the Li River series. This study almost violates the principle that warms advance and cools recede. Early morning light is coming up behind the limestone hills and cool shadows are still lingering in the foreground and the summer heat is coming up in the distance. So in this case, cool tones are in the foreground and warmer tones in the background and intermingling. I work from sketches and photos and when I took the photos for this painting I knew I’d have to rely on my visual memory for these color tones because the camera couldn’t record them well. I don’t want beginning students to work from photos for this reason. Many haven’t developed good visual memory and some don’t even know there is such a thing.
This painting is the opposite of the last one, “Reflections”. Here the light and color is coming alive with the new day. In “Reflections” everything is rapidly fading at the end of day. These are two different ideas and two different results.
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