Choose a landscape with a variety of large and small spaces.
1. Compose this within a border (see Chap. VI.) and when the spacing is
good trace with the brush on several sheets of Japanese paper.
Next try the effect of painting certain spaces black, or dark gray, or
some dark color like blue. The other spaces may be left white, or painted
light gray or with light color. Landscapes are capable of a great many
two‐value arrangements but not all such will be fine. Strive for harmony
rather than number, variety or strangeness. Compare your set and select
the best.
2. Compose the landscape into borders of different proportions; then vary
each of these in two values. The illustrations, No. 47, make clear these
two ways of working. The student may use the examples given here, then
sketch his own subjects from nature.