trees in my garden

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Comment by Norah Blount on June 22, 2012 at 20:24

Love the arching shapes of the trees and its picked up again in the grasses, think you are right about the rainbow but I add these plein air paintings in to a word doc and write a few lines about the happenings during the painting and they make nice little stories (?) for browsing through in the winter

Comment by Michael McGuire on June 21, 2012 at 7:32

The shape makes an interesting design, Anne. Next time, try to look for differences between and within greens. Remember that horizontal planes will always pick up some sky colour even if in shadow. So as a general rule, horizontal planes in shadow will be lighter in value than vertical ones. They also tend to be cooler (bluer). There are also usually differences between horizontal and vertical planes in sunlight, most obviously when the sun is either very high or low in the sky.