"Fading into fades" class demo

Here above is the example of multiple slow fades, or gradations.  The blue of the lake fades off into the distance.  The distant earth tones fade into the lake.  The light on the trunk of the trees fade from right to left.  Almost everything we look at is brightest on its nearest corner.  Everything fades.  It took a long time to paint.

What can happen when we add fades to our images?

Here's one example of a quickly painted fade.  In the sky, light orange fades into crimson.  Earth-side fades could be much more developed.

Again, a very fast painting.  A very light crimson plus orange stain blends with indigo in the sky, making for detailed clouds against a smooth, continuous pink background.  Except for that wedge on the left.

Below, a truer blue sort of splashes in the foreground, covering a the indigo in the lower right corner and re-tinting it.

Experiment:  put a wet spot on the paper.  Touch it in different places with different colors.  Play around.

Experiment:  put a narrow red stripe at the bottom edge of the paper, then pull the color upwards, covering the sheet with weaker and weaker paint.  Paint an ordinary painting over that. (If you use burnt sienna for the red, you can use a wet brush to pull bits of paint off the page to make highlights).