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VIII. Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting Index
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The best method of practice in representing country scenes, or I should
say landscapes with their trees, is to choose them so that the sun is covered with clouds so that the landscape receives an universal light and not the direct light of the sun, which makes the shadows sharp and too strongly different from the lights.