Artists & Illustrators

August

In this mosaic of alternating tones, light is contrasted against an adjacent darker tone and vice versa, so that the eye can clearly comprehend what lies in front and what lies behind.

It can help to see features in the landscape as geometrical shapes one in front of the other. Here a pile of rocks similar to those in the painting below has been approximated to a wedge, hemispheres, a cube and a cylinder.

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