439

The proportions of light and shade in trees.

OF DEPICTING A FOREST SCENE.

The trees and plants which are most thickly branched with slender branches ought to have less dark shadow than those trees and plants which, having broader leaves, will cast more shadow.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

438 * 440

VII * X

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.

. . .

419

Light on branches and leaves.

420,

421,

422

The proportions of light and shade in a leaf.

423,

424,

425,

426

Of the transparency of leaves.

427,

428,

429

The gradations of shade and colour in leaves.

430,

431,

432,

433,

434

A classification of trees according to their colours.

435

The proportions of light and shade in trees.

436,

437,

438,

439,

440

of the spectator.

441,

442,

443

The effects of morning light.

444,

445,

446,

447,

448

The effects of midday light.

449

The appearance of trees in the distance.

450,

451

The cast shadow of trees.

452

Light and shade on groups of trees.

453,

454,

455,

456,

457

On the treatment of light for landscapes.

458,

459

. . .