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Colur notes

IN THE FIRST two articles in this series, we discussed composition and colour harmony, looking for the beauty in the landscape through its simple forms, value patterns and then reducing colour to harmonies.

In this article we are going to push colour. The shapes and value patterns are still the underlying structure of the painting but again, rather than looking for accents and details, we are going to see if the painting works as a series of

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