Sanjiban's Correspondence with The Mother

1933

It is a question of shadows and light. The colouring of the shadows is wrong. The shadows are never of the same colour as the light but darker.

The colour of the shadows is always somewhat complementary of that of the light. The complementary colours are green and red

orange and blue

violet and yellow

and all the intermediary shades with all the possible combinations.

Thus if in the light your ground is green, in the shadow, it will be probably of a reddish brown. If it is of some kind of golden orange, the shadow will be of a bluish purple, and so on.

1933