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Textises and cloth No2

provides a richness almost beyond the imagination. Even more so because the initial color of the

dress is so bland with only two basic value changes. There are those who will undoubtedly claim

they see more.

Virgil Elliott notes ' Whereas it is a popular practice to place complements in shadows, it is not

the way light works in reality. The main influence on the color of shadows is the color of the

secondary light, which could be any color. Only in highly reflective surfaces like satin or polished

metal or glass will reflected color register noticeably in the middletones.'

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