In class this week, for those who missed it, we looked five different methods for indicating depth in a painting.
When a painting contains two or more depth indicators, each reinforces the other, and a viewer's mind can put them together and conclude that this is an image with depth. The viewer owns that conclusion.
So, our project for the week is to create a painting that uses two or more - and why not five? - of the methods for indicating depth.
What are the methods?
1) Fade toward the horizon.
2) Layer - have a distinct foreground, middle ground and background, at least one with a different light level.
3) Repeat similar shapes that get smaller as they get farther away.
4) Make lines that converge in the distance. The two sides of a road. The three sides of a birdhouse. Storefront rows. Monet.
5) Put a very small close object - like a leaf - next to very large distant objects - like distant hills.
It would be interesting to see a painting that makes use of all five methods... Why not?
Have ye fun, and we'll see what we've done this Thursday.
Dan
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