Monday 18 July 2022

(Intuitive) Perspective in Aquarelle

 Perspective is a difficult thing - it is in everything, of course in landscapes, in an object, a face and sometimes even in abstract paintings. If you get it wrong, it 'itches' the brain. And that's why it is good to understand a couple of rules, even if you don't get into the real in-depth technical stuff. For example, you can be confident that you (your brain) always knows what perfect horizontal and vertical is. So when in doubt about a direction of  line,, hold your pencil horizontal or vertical and compare the angle.


Michele
If you paint a construction, a road towards a horizon, use a point and let everything lead to that point


Geneviève

Further away = smaller


Celina

Further away = Bluer (more (blue) oxygen between you and far away) and often more hazy

 
Jutta

If the Horizon is high in your painting, it looks as if it is painted from a high stand point. This s called 'Birds' perspective. Has a powerful effect.. We didn't create an example of a low standpoint, but that is called frog perspective - and it makes one feel humble


Martine


In the meantime...



Sue's Sea - also very perspectivey, but painted in the spirit of our 'water scapes' project...


Guest Leonie (8),  painted an amazing set of spheres!!! 
Well done on the shadows, and the white lines and highlights!


Guest Akemie doodled the afternoon away, sitting next to Leonie and they somehow inspired each other. I love everything about this, the lightness, the backgrounds, and what she did with the white


 
Judith amazes us every time with her open-minded research into the world of expression.


Jutta's fab Monet-inspired painting of her friend with the red shoes & lovely dog...


Brenda's work in progress on: Leonie!




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