The Reilly Papers

When my League instructor Robert Schulz offered this lecture to the class, I remember being struck by the amount of information the student...

My pochade box with the Reilly's outdoor palette. Reilly created a landscape palette for his students that is well thought out an...

Extreme chroma color chart in sunlight. Painted by E. Anzini. This is one of many landscape assignments Reilly gave his students. I ha...

Putting the sun at your back at sunset or sunrise creates a front-lighting condition. Looking into the sun at these hours can create a rim ...

Seeing the complex forms in nature as simple, basic planes is helpful in assigning relative values accurately to each item. This in turn he...

The sky is a vaulted arch of diffused light encompassing the landscape. It illuminates our scene evenly as a blueish light-source on a clea...

Top: Sky-lit or Gray day. Left: Sun & Sky. Right: Moon & Sky. Gray Day On a gray (or sky-lit) day the entire sky becomes a lar...