Week 2: Landscape - Exterior Architecture

A 90 minute chalk pastel drawing. There is a very strong circular implied line in this image, which follows the cloud line at the top, then the highlights on the right of the glass roof, and then the green reflections which curve round to the structure they are reflecting, which then leads the eye back up to the cloud line. In the clouds themselves, There is a lot of energy in the marks, which only helps to draw the eye into this implied line.

The way the marks are made, especially around the green reflections, is an example of contour drawing, following the contours of glass in the roof, helping the viewer to understand the odd architecture of that roof. The strong yellow highlights also add very effectively to this, creating interesting areas of colour, and contrasting well with the blue paper that the drawing is done on. For these reasons the area around the green reflections is one of the more interesting areas of the image and a good focal point.

This focal point is balanced on the other side by the clouds which indicate a definite motion away from this area with the marks which swipe away from it.This leads to another area of interest in the detail of the form at the top right of the clouds.