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The dress is built up in colors:
Purple and blue in the cast shadows.
Warm white in the highlights.
In those areas where the sunlight bounces back into shadowed sides of
the folds, the cloth is painted in yellow, orange and touches of red for
value shift. A small amount of warm green is allowed to reflect back
into the cool shadows of her torso from the water below.
Again, as with the face, the thickest paint is reserved
for the strongest
highlights, where brushwork becomes more dominant.
The process continues on down the dress and the edges are
worked
into the surrounding landscape and sky. The softest edges in the painting
are found on the light side of the girl's torso where the value of her dress
is close to that of the warm lower sky and the sun radiates off of her.
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