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  • I find the notan exercises where you have to simplify and identify the shapes for just two values (dark,light) and then three values (dark, light and an inbetween midvalue grey) to be an excellent exercise in really looking intensely at the subject matter to understand how it works - and not so easy!

    Drawing Shadows, Drawing Light James Gurney 2008

  • They should be returned because it was clearly notan attack on Iran.

    Blair Must Stand Up to the Iranian Terrorists 2007

  • Color varies not only in hue and value [_notan_] but in intensity -- ranging from bright to gray.

    Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

  • Unfortunately, the military defeat of the German people is notan undeserved catastrophe, but the deserved chastisement of eternal retribution.

    Mein Kampf Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1925

  • On the contrary, until they buried me in the cells of silence for half a decade, I was everything that the missionary forecasted notan agricultural expert, a professor of agronomy, a specialist in the science of the elimination of waste motion, a master of farm efficiency, a precise laboratory scientist where precision and adherence to microscopic fact are absolute requirements.

    Chapter 6 1915

  • It hunts hundreds of mostly minke whales, which are notan endangered species.

    daytondailynews.com - News TANALEE SMITH 2010

  • It hunts hundreds of mostly minke whales, which are notan endangered species.

    daytondailynews.com - News TANALEE SMITH 2010

  • I followed a strategy of starting off with a bare dark and light notan.

    BC Bloggers 2010

  • The stove, if anything, is grabbing more attention, and I would rather it be subordinate to the figure … Does the eye go naturally back and forth exploring the frame or does it get stuck in some purgatory of clashing foci here? notan, and I thought playing around with that might be helpful for me.

    BC Bloggers 2010

  • "Re'eh Anochi notan lifnaychem hayom bracha uklalah" (Deut 11: 26),

    unknown title 2009

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