The Reilly Papers

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...

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...