I think I have the general idea of perspective, but I need much more practice. I understand that sometimes things look askew, like where the roof meets the column
in this photo, and that you just have to go with it and trust what your eyes are telling you. The problem is making my hand match what my eyes see. This is where you really begin to understand the discipline of drawing and how you have to train yourself to see the angles properly.
Precision is not my forte, but I really want to learn how to make the viewer see the difference between the foreground and the distance. I attempted this view twice, as you can see below.
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| The first time, in acrylic paint, I began to realize there is JUST TOO MUCH STUFF in this picture, and that it is beyond my meager skills at this point, so I left some things out. Here were my problems: I was defeated by the beautiful tiled table first, as well as the angles of the built-in tiled bench seating. I could not see the table support on the left and had to assume it matched the one on the right. At this point, I decided to leave out all the chairs and the other little bistro table. I started to try to do the hammock and gave up on it. I noticed all the cute little dangly things and made a command decision that it was enough to try to reproduce the ceiling without having to adorn it with things that nobody would know what they were. So I did a couple of hanging plants instead, feeling relatively confident I could do those. The water is way too blue. I think if I crop the bottom two inches off this, I might be able to salvage some of it. |
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| The second attempt was in watercolor, which I never use, so I was trying to learn to work with that medium while doing this one. Again, I left lots of stuff out. I think the ceiling is way too low, and I don't like the water. The seating just looks like a border. ALSO, everything under the roof should be much darker than what can be seen outside the terrace. Art teachers, any tricks? |
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