![]() The first painting I came across was ‘Composition of Tivoli’. ![]() I looked a few of Turner’s paintings, his later seascape paintings were a bit too stressful for me so I decided to take a closer look at his earlier work. Trees also play a big part in depicting distance in Lorrain’s drawings often using them to divide the foreground from the middle ground like in the ‘Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia’ above’. Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia Landscape with Aeneas at DelosĪgain with the next painting ‘Landscape with Aeneas at Delos’ he has used the layers in the same way but this time arranged them into what I would say blocks on the left which remind me of stepping stones and doing this has managed to depict the coastline of a sea or massive lake with one final layer set to one side allowing him to show the sea meeting the sky in the horizon. In this painting he staggers each level to depict the river flowing in a snake like pattern around the hills into the distance. The first painting that I chose out was ‘Landscape with Merchants’ a prime example of how Lorrain used different levels, like platforms, to divide his paintings into a foreground, middle ground and a background helping him to create a great sense of distance in his paintings with the foreground level being the clearest and the most colourful with each level on top fading to the background. I looked at quite a few of his paintings but for this research point I chose three to look at in detail. However looking at his paintings now, some of those artists may have possibly been influenced by Claud Lorrain himself. In the earlier research point I refrained from looking at the works of Claude Lorrain as I knew I would be looking at them again here. Write notes on how these artists divide their landscapes into foreground, middle ground and background. Look at the work of Claude Lorrain and Turner. Like I said in the exercises, for me and where I am, to do the drawing trees exercises before the final study would have been a great help. What additional preliminary work would have been helpful towards the larger study? In the sketch above I made the tree solid black and put the shadows in the foreground to depict the sun shining behind the tree then drew the leaves of the tree in a lighter pencil to show light shining through the trees. How did you use light and shade? Was it successful? A Sketch book Walk Fourth and Final Sketch : Charcoal Pencil, EE and HB I also used softer pencils in the foreground or in sketches where I used pens I created a sense of distance by drawing simpler and smaller shapes between the more dominant ones to make them look like they are at the back. I created a sense of distance by using stronger shading or colour in the foreground with lighter shading or colour in the background to make the background look generally more misty. How did you create a sense of distance and form in your studies? In what way did you simplify and select in your study? Were you able to focus on simple shapes and patterns amid all the visual information available to you?įor me these two questions are intertwined I was able to simplify and select by putting everything into group shapes in the sketches and or blocks of colour in the larger study.
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