Perspective: the grand illusions
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- Big Grid
- Near By Light
- Look Down Hill
- Horizon On Line
- Find Center
- Roof Top Diagonals
- More Diagonals
- Spacing Perspective
- Cross Lines and Fences
- Shades & Shadows
- More Shades & Shadows
Shadows: to paint them is to understand them
As a painting develops, the artist painting in any medium bases considerations of dimensionality and apparent reality through the tools of both perspective and management of shadows. We are born in a world in which shape, depth and relative form are defined for us as light " pushes away the darkness" the values scales of light and darkness along with our color perception aids this process. An apple" painted with flat red springs to life when the shadows added define its form and the fruit appears to spring to life. In the above right painting, we "walk through the light and shadows " into the distance. Our sense of depth heightens the experienceof three dimensionality. We pass under the warm leaves of the trees feeling the sun pouring in from the right and traverse to a far line of hills and fields where the receding nature of bluish tones becomespart of the illusion of distance.



Artist Perspectives

