Table of trees: light, shade and colour of foliage
Sixth-part chapters on illuminating leaves, greenery and distant woods
This page of the sixth-part table gathers chapters on the light and colour of trees, each keyed to a numbered leaf. The headings treat the shadows and lights in leaves, the universal light that illuminates plants, the lights of dark and of yellowish-green leaves, and the sheens of foliage. A later group turns to distant woods: the recession of the countryside, the blue that remote trees take on, and the sun that illuminates the forest.
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Illuminating leaves, foliage and dark greens
The table concerns light on trees: the shadows and lights and their sizes in leaves, the universal light that illuminates plants, and the lights of dark leaves and of greenery tending to yellow. It also treats the sheens of leaves and the trees illuminated by the sun or by the air.
Form of plants where they join their roots
One heading treats the form that plants take where they join with their roots. Others cover the green of leaves, the darkness of the tree, and the scattered tops of trees, framing the plant's structure for the painter.
Distant woods and the blue of remote trees
The recessions of the countryside, the blue that remote trees take on, and the sun that illuminates the forest are gathered as chapters on trees seen at a distance. A final heading asks which boundaries remote plants show against the air that forms their background.