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I did try to keep in mind the "rule" warmer/closer, cooler/further away
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As someone who has always had trouble with color temperature theory and the qualities it supposedly imparts (I'm a "blue" guy and somewhat resent its consignment to the cold, distant job assignment), I was amazed to discover in Daniel Greene's color video that he also disagrees with the "accepted rule" of cool colors receding and warms advancing. His feeling is that value contrast and edges have much more to do with the effect. That was my own experience when doing charcoals of antique plaster masks and busts. I could create substantial depth without any color at all, so to insist to me that the aerial perspective effects of hue were the determining factor in depth never made any sense to me.
Anyway, to sign off in the fashion of artists dwarfing me, "Watch your edges."