The Reilly Papers

Student color note Each summer, Frank Reilly took a number of his students to the Art Students League campus in Woodstock, NY to teach ou...

This post on lighting was borrowed from the Light & Shade section, which I hope to get to eventually. Reilly refers to these basic ligh...

The color of the light source directly affects the hue on the light side of form. Within the cast shadow, it causes the illusion of the ligh...

Claude Monet  "The Four Trees"  www.metmuseum.com Reilly's original notes are missing on this topic, so I am substituting m...

Gradation :  Reilly uses the term gradation to describe a gradual change in value over a flat surface; side to side, top to bottom or diag...

By simplifying form into planes, it becomes easier to understand and see how light affects form. There are four basic planes: front or uprig...

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)  Self-portrait  www.metmuseum.org In Reilly's words, "The  effect  is where you look first, it i...