Mix the colors of these two scenes together and the result is a discordant picture which will be unnatural and unbalanced. In each case the colors will harmonize and all complement each other in tone. A researched study on two of art's most fundamental themes, Color and Light bridges the gap between abstract theory and practical knowledge. The opposite occurs on a dull day, when the whole scene is changed to one of low tone, when both colors and shadows will be soft and subdued. James Gurney, New York Times best-selling author and artist of the Dinotopia series, follows Imaginative Realism with his second art-instruction book, Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter. It is obvious that when you are working out of doors on a bright sunny day all the colors will be strong and bright in tone, and even the shadows and middle tints will be strong too. It may be difficult to trace the exact places where they occur in a picture, but they are there all the same. All pictures may be divided into masses of bright color or light, medium-strength color, and shadows. He said: "You must aim at getting tone and harmony in your work, although it may not be easy. In his book Water-Colour for Beginners Sir Frances Russell Flint warned that a painting will lack color harmony if it has too many colors in it.
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