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as far as the effect of pure light goes; which causes brilliant colors, like prismas, at every edge; further: as far as the character or texture of each color plane goes; since it requires pure colors of [[strikethrough]] either [[/strikethrough]] analagous or similar hues in the lights, as in the shadows, to convert the principal color into a characteristic, differentiated quality (texture, detail, elements as bricks make a wall grasses a lawn, tiles a roof, leaves a tree). Here I have much difficulty in two ways 1.) First the yellow foreground, dissected by red and green heavy lines, as the sketch suggests (not shadows but sand or grass between [[strikethrough]] on [[/strikethrough]] mostly drying [[?]] yellow herbs, as in October) looks flat, without character: It has no form, its different colors express no form hence appear arbitrary and the whole unconvincing, unpictorial, inspite of the broad mass of pure cadmium yellow as the sunlight effect. Therefor the brush stroke must, by variation of hue and contrast of shadow hue or sky reflex (no shadows in sketch) get that effect. 2) Secondly: The finishing of the picture fails to create the loose white effect everywhere in the sketch which makes for light, brilliancy, and looseness or suggestiveness. Instead I try to fix the forms of each small object, shadow, etc and get neither its additional coloring right nor anything but a stiff, unpictorial, and indifferent effect. 
[[in pencil]] (147 [[/in pencil]]