Beginning: Pencil Drawing
Middle: Colour Wheel
Middle: Colour Wheel
Middle: Applying Paints
End: Finished Painting
Monday, May 4, 2009
Exterior Perspective Painting Inspired by the Renissance Art Period
Some of the techniques i used from the Renaissance Period to develop my painting were:
1. Foreshortening - effect of shortening lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth. In my painting i used freshening in order to create depth so that the mountain would appear in the distance and not near the front. Foreshortening helped create a sense of depth also with the continuous arches that recede into the distance. This added to giving my painting a sense of depth.
2. Balance and Proportion – were I used proper sizes for objects that would be in the front and objects in the background. I used light, airy, and bright colors in the parts of the painting that the sun shown on, and on the parts of objects that didn’t receive light from the sun I made those parts darker. Using light and dark colours created a sense of depth in my painting.
3. Chiaroscuro - effect of using a strong contrast between light and dark to give the illusion of depth or three-dimensionality. I used chiaroscuro in creating depth in the background, where I had the sky and the mountain. The sky features light colours and the mountain has dark colours. This use of light and dark colours creates a sense of dept in my painting.
4. Sfumato - art painting technique of blurring or softening of sharp outlines by subtle and gradual blending of one tone into another through the use of thin glazes to give the illusion of depth or three-dimensionality. The technique of Sfumato was used in my painting of the sky. Here is used smoothly blended colours so that is appeared gradual and not as separate clouds, the sky appears as one big mix of colours but it is blended in together so well that it does not appear as single colours.
The discoveries that I made during the renaissance painting project were, that objects that receded into the distance, often had blue added to the object or landscape. It seems the artists during the renaissance period did this to create a sense of depth. So, in my painting I made the mountain blue so that it appeared that it was distant and in the background. A technique that I found helpful through the process of my painting was, chiaroscuro because without creating a light and dark contrast in my painting, it would have possibly been hard to create a sense of depth.
Two skills that I learnt were Sfumato and proportion. I learnt Sfumato in my sky where I blended warm colours together, in the end it appears as one large full sky and not in pieces. I learnt proportion in how made the sizes of objects appear in the front and background. Objects in the foreground appear bigger than objects in the foreground. I feel I could improve my blending technique, if I were to practice this technique I believe I could eventually reach a life-like sky, and not an unrealistic one.
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