I have been working with Dan McCaw's suggestions but need further help
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Alot depends on what a person means by the term "impressionism". Ken
Realist modeling of forms is often called tonal modeling. The forms of a composition are given variations in values to portray light and shade areas of the form. Lighter values of an object color indicate light planes, while darker values of the local object color indicate shade areas. The object color, say a red object, is made darker for shade, and lighter for light planes.
Prior to Impressionism, there were definite formulas used by painters for the color of shade areas, which generally was considered to be a grey, a brown grey, or a blue grey version of the surface color of an object.
Impressionist painting abandoned this conception of coloring entirely. Shade color was no longer considered to be a grey version of the surface color of an object. By juxtaposing different hues for light and shade, impressionist painters sought to create the effect of daylight. For example, yellow or orange hues in a sunlit plane next to blue or violet hues in a shade plane was not a tonal value modeling, but a color modeling description of form.
Impressionist painting is the use of color divisions between light and shade to express sunlight and atmosphere. It is important to note that the actual color mixtures for light and shade are not usually pure or saturated hues, but unusual mixtures of pigments without being tonal value variations of one color mixture.
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