PLATE LIX
EFFECT, MORNING
Morning Effect should be produced by sparkling and catching lights. A scene on the banks of a river is here intended to produce the effect, while the clear reflection of the different objects in the water gives stillness to the scene; and the people crossing in the ferry-boat to market is an incident which materially tends to stamp the character and elucidate the effect of the picture. The sky tints are composed of indigo, lake, and a little gamboge, gradually softened in with light ochre towards the horizon; the upper part of the sky is finished with a little ultramarine; the water washed in with the same tints as the lower part of the sky; the distance, indigo and a little light red; the trees and bank, in the second distance, indigo and Indian red, re-touched in the lights with light ochre and gamboge; the shadows upon the house, indigo and Indian red; the light side, light ochre; the foreground trees, bank, and weeds are worked in with a grey composed of indigo, Indian red, and brown pink, finished with the same three colours, preserving some quite white for the sparkling lights, which are to be carefully filled up with gamboge and indigo; the bark of the trees, indigo and Indian red; the whole of the foreground finished with indigo and burnt sienna, heightened up with Vandyke brown.
PLATE LX
EFFECT, MID-DAY