Irish Bridge, 2002, 8 x 10, oil on panel
The setting sun illuminates a bridge with parallel bands of light and cast shadows that you have to pass through to enter the village in the distance.
Jacob van Ruisdael
When the shadows are cast by clouds, the transitions from light to shadow are more gradual.
Thomas Moran
You can place the patches of light to dramatize travelers in the middle ground or a featured landscape form in the distance.
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More about this in my book "Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter" (Signed copies at the link.)
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