The drawing that I chose to write about is called "Large Walchensee Landscape" the medium is dry point and the artist is unknown. This piece creates space quite well. The artist did a very good job of creating a lot of depth while only using one color and not a lot of detail. The foreground is the hill that extends towards the viewer in front of the patch of trees in the center. The middle ground encompasses everything from the patch of trees to the base of the mountains. The background is the mountain range in the far back of the work. Because the artist only used black there is not a lot to say about color as far as atmospheric prospective goes. Even though there is not a tremendous amount of detail the artist does a very good job of using diminishing detail to create atmospheric prospective. The mountains in the far back are lighter than the mountains in front of them, which is the only way that you can tell there are multiple levels of mountains. Overlapping is also well used to show that the trees are in front of the mountains and relative size really helps to show how far the mountains are behind the clump of trees. This is another example of how just because there aren't a ton of photo realistic details that doesn't mean that a work isn't detailed or doesn't have depth. I really have a great appreciation for works like this because I think that it's really difficult to make something that seems really from what are basically scribbles.
Hi Derek. Great job with your drawing. Im wondering if that is a hallway from school.
ReplyDeleteAlso I do love the simplicity of the drawing you chose. You are right, it does look like "basically scribbles", however there is still so much detail nonetheless.
Derek the drawing you chose is a great exampe of how perspective and space are created, and because there is no additional colors other than black you can imagine how the different lines have to be used to suggest lighter/darker or further/closer. Good work.
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