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Colour harmony

IMPROVE YOUR LANDSCAPE PAINTING Part two of five

IN THE FIRST ARTICLE we worked with a pencil in our sketchbook to focus on composition and values. Our goal is to build up to a full-scale landscape painting in colour. But we can do this sequentially so that each step builds a little information from the previous.

When we are landscape painting, our light source is the sky and this has a harmonising and unifying effect on the colours and values in the landscape. Have we not all stopped in front of a

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