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Warm light, cool shadow. If I asked you what color a shadow is, you might say it's some shade of grey. But did you know shadows can be colorful? Something my art professor, Robert Barrett, always said was "warm light, cool shadow" and vice versa. He wanted us to learn to recognize not only the importance of contrast when making a strong painting, but the science behind light and color. One of my favorite painting textbooks puts it this way: "When illumination changes in color temperature, the...
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