A feeling of separation

You always have to have a feeling of (separation). — Bill Alexander

We learned about highlighting light against light, now we’re highlighting dark against dark. Bill says if you don’t create the feeling of separation, then your painting doesn’t make sense. What he means is it doesn’t make sense as you would view that scene in “Mother Nature.” Bill had a photographic memory. He could remember what he saw in nature and transferred that knowledge to his paintings.