Architectural Tricks of Perspective and Size Used by Clough Williams-Ellis

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One of the ways that Clough made buildings seem much taller than they really are in the village was to paint them in graduating shades of paint. You can see on these two examples how the darkest shade is along the bottom, a medium shade is applied across the middle and the lightest shade is at the top of each cottage.