Sometimes we have to fix paintings.... For the recently completed workshop, I demonstrated evening light on an old 12 x 16 oil I'd done years ago (2002) as part of a class I taught in plein air painting for the community college. I remember the objective for the day--"atmospheric perspective". For these college students, who had few yards of canvas under their brushes, I kept the colors simple. They were working with the basic palette of five colors plus white.The site was chosen because of the stairstepping mountain ranges getting lighter and softer as they receded to the left. Now that I'm using 12 colors in the Color System, the results are DRAMATIC in the changes of color. And I absolutely loved going over the old painting with the new Color System knowledge. Picking the colors to liven up the canvas was easy as I kept my head in either the warm or cool boxes to mix the colors. I promised the students I'd do more of this, and I'll share them with you in the days to come. Workshop information is HERE. Please forward this on to your friends, and thank you! | 
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