Anne Appleby's Verona Suite suggests the shifting light and changing colors of a poplar forest near Verona, Italy. Appleby neither works directly from nature nor collects color samples. Rather, she chooses colors based on intuition and memory. The final print’s subtle and luminous color variations, created by overprinting layers of semitransparent inks, are, for Appleby, evocative of the poplars’ seasonal growth cycles. For example, the green rectangle in the second position of the final print (see slideshow, above) is tinged with light green and orange, suggesting the transformation of deciduous leaves from spring to fall. In the working proofs, Appleby tested the impact of two shades of pink on the overall color harmonies by overlaying rectangles cut from earlier proofs.