Lennart Johnson's Nice Old Color Chart with Adhered Strips, No. 2 baseball rust ready to be put

rust ready to be put to use

I have not amped up the color on this guy

with the unusual toning to ground beyond the frame of the portrait seeming like a soft rake of afternoon light that has come through the window to illuminate the book our young man holds in his hands

but many of you responded to it by suggesting it was a post mortem photo

Lennart Johnson's Nice Old Color Chart with Adhered Strips, No. 2 baseball rust ready to be putThe second today of a pair of color charts I purchased at Brimfield, done years ago by a young Lennart Johnson, who signed both front and back of this one. I'm a sucker for color theory color wheel exercises of all sorts, but come across them less and less often these days, so I'm even more inclined to grab them when I do. I love the three dimensionality of this one, making it feel like a field of colorful flags waving in the breeze (or a mock up for