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saturday august 26    woodstock

I believe most great paintings are controlled with half-tones. Here and there lights are brought out and darks are pushed back. Where the half-tones are one finds more color than in the [[crossed out]] dakrs [[/crossed out]] darks or in the lights. It is very difficult to have variety in half-tones but most fine paintings are that way. And often I hear a comment by critic if any contemporary painter try to control their paintings by the half-tone, their remark is that it is too monotonous.

Perhaps that is true, but we don't quite know how to do to make it not monotonous. It is apt to be make monotonous -- but this direction is right if you can control it.

I use less color now than I ever[[crossed out]]x[[/crossed out]] used. I don't think yellows, reds, greens, blues -- putting all those colors together does not necessarily make colorful painting.

I do not put one color against another very carefully and try to create colors by themselves. Therefore when even using less colors but careful arrangement and placing colors each other will be sufficient color enough for any kind of painting. Naturally too little color is just as bad as too many colors.