On Sat, January 21, 2012 11:13, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Very rich-Just wondered if we had rather a lot of colours here?maybe
> restrict the palette a bit
Why? That's what it was like.
Linguistically, and that is surely what matters, not how many colours
painters have used, it may jar; but to vary the noun might well suggest
variance of colour; and, as I perceived it, there was none.
If I were there now, I don't imagine it would be like that; and I am not
sure what plant was producing all that orange; but that was what I saw.
It worries me. I recall a decade ago a good close reader exclaiming _so
many colours_ in response to a book that now looks quite easy-going by
comparison. I'm aware it's hard to take; and I may eventually decide it
doesn't work.
L
> Bests P
> did Cotman only use four colours????but then three cheers for the
> impressionists!!
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> Subject: from Obadiah's barrow, looking west
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> A hand spread of yellow tends to orange
> jammed into a fist of green blending red out of its own making; then
> grey-green stubble broken by deep orange above a line of yellow striking
> alongside a low path on the other side of which it's Scilly White, yellow,
> red and orange chasing around among green up one side of Kittern Hill. The
> porth's predominantly thick pale green broken in by stretches of strong
> turquoise or undercut by mauve and some purple. The far shore is black,
> grey and brown, cackled by white grey squabbling gulls; while the small
> boats, calling, squirt bright wake from under drab hulls
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> [Scilly White is a type of daffodil]
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> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
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