Handbook of light and shade, with especial reference to model drawing (1880)
Merrifield, Mary P. (Mary Philadelphia), 1804 or 1805-1889 · London : George Rowney & Co. · leaf 52
een in everypart, also the difference in the intensity of the shadowbetween the part nearest the eye and that which is mostdistant. The similarity in the arrangement and dis-tribution of the light and shade between this figure andthe hexagonal prism cannot fail to be observed. Thedifference is… … LIGHT AND SHADE. 33 fleeted light. When seen against a dark background,it is more vivid than when opposed to a light one, andin the first case it appears, by contrast, darker than itreally is. As a rule, it may be considered that one-halfof the figure is dark, the other light; and that howbright…
Shades and shadows in art · Drawing
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