Seeing the Light & Color: Local Color vs. Observed Color Lesson 2: Demonstration

Part 2 of Mary Gilkerson's Seeing the Light & Color Painting Mini-Course.
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In Mary's words...
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LESSON 2 EXERCISE:
Exercise #2: Use your thumbnail and notan from Exercise #1 as reference to create a study that explores using value and optical color to create the illusion of light. Either use the photo provided in Lesson 1 or pick one of your own. Be sure that the subject is fairly simple so that you don't get caught up in non-color issues.
Materials needed:
Fanchon red (napthol red)
Carl's Crimson (crimson)
Thalo Blue
Ultramarine Blue
White
Gessoed paper, ampersand panel, or primed canvas cut to size
Palette knives or brushes
Palette