video clip : head on, the fall has a striking shape that makes it look like an emblem. The effect is stronger if you climb down to match your eye level with the middle of the fall and then to the middle of a study.

I scrambled down the rocks and worked from a ledge. All I heard was the sound of water.

Oil studies

Made on bright, overcast days in summer with the fall in medium spate with clear water showing a big range of coloured whites and greys. This study records colours recurring over several visits:

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photography

A set of spot-metered photos were taken, some for light areas, some for dark. Human eyes quickly adapt as we look from dark to light, but a single photo has only a single exposure; so several exposures are needed to account for the appearance of a scene with contrasting areas of brightness like this one.

Different exposure times were also used to give options for painting the range of sharp or blurred passages of water that we experience.

digital colour-texture analysis

The distribution of selected colours are anaylsed using a digital colour selection tool. Colours from the oil study are then mapped onto these selections. The distribution of similar colours in nature often creates a colour-texture, which can help us see complicated things more clearly. Printouts of digital colour selections are used as a basis for painted colour textures. Below are examples, printed to a black background to make the light tones easy to read: