86 LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



and like nothing else in nature. In drawing pro- 

 cesses, then, it is the color shape that is indicated 

 by the drawn lines. 



One element of color, dark and light, is perhaps 

 most important in the perception of objects, and 

 this darkness and lightness is known as value. 



At night one does not perceive objects readily 

 because the absence of light has minimized value 

 contrasts, making the objects appear uniform in 

 color, and where color differences are not per- 

 ceived, individuality is lost. On a moonlight 

 night the principal perceptions are of "values," — 

 that is, lights and darks, — with other slightly dif- 

 fering color qualities added. The shadows are all 

 a sort of deep violet black, and the "high-lights" a 

 greenish yellow. Forms are consequently seen 

 only in their larger relationships where they are 

 relieved by shadow, but in the shadow itself aU 

 detail is lost, because there is insufficient light to 

 make color distinctions. 



"Where the light conditions are such as to make 

 colors easily perceptible, the color viewed ab- 

 stractly is of more importance than the form, for 

 it repels or attracts more readily than any other 

 one element of design. 



Color is divided into three parts, value, hue, and 



