The Shadow Knows

1.       The shape and outline of the object.

2.       It is the fundamental aspect of seeing an object. It also interacts with all our other perceptual responses in helping us make sense of our subjects.

3.       By seeing the color and volume of the object.

4.       You incorporate the different elements, such as color and volume, of the subject to give it the qualities of what it is.

5.       It gives the subject the different kinds of energy that it possesses.

6.       It allows you to define the object more and provide more of a dimension to it. You can use different strokes and texture to convey the different emotions of each material.

Vincent Van Gogh

A Pair of Shoes

Van Gogh's Chair

Shoes

Mother Nature Decoded

1. We can take a single stem from that bouquet and choose single trees from that forest to look at and find a way to draw. Looking at the flower will help us draw the proportions of the plant much more easily than concentrating on each part of the plant as we come to it.

2. Looking at the flower will help us draw the proportions of the plant much more easily than concentrating on each part of the plant as we come to it.

3. The basic growing directions will help show the essence of the object and how they affect the painting and plant as a whole. If you start each observation of a subject by deciding what is most important to its character, you will know where to begin your drawing and how to proceed.

Henri Fantin-Latour

Stll Life with Flower

Summer Flowers

Roses in a Bowl

Anne Vallayer-Coster

Bouquet of Flowers in a Terracotta Vase, with Peaches and Grapes

Flowers in a blue vase

Study Of A Bouquet Of Gilly Flowers

The Beagle Vanishes

De Chirico

Gare Montparnasse

De Chirico

The Disquieting Muses

De Chirico

Piazza d'Italia