Justin Myles - Advanced Observational Art Portfolio

Sunday 13th October

Mixing Media: Interior Perspective.

The following piece was produced within 3 hours using sketching crayons and pastels on a grey toned sheet of A3 paper.

The horizon line is considered as it cuts through where the top of the stairs are and this allows the rules of perspective to be considered such as the vanishing point where we can see the chairs narrow inwards, the same can be said for the pillars where to the sides of the page they appear large and narrow in to the middle in order to become smaller. The focal point can be seen to the right of the page where there is a large amount of yellow along with a wooden notice board which corresponds to the rule of thirds.  

Colour wise it uses a lot of greys and browns which allows the greens, yellows and reds to pop out however there seems to be to much brown which can make the piece appear less interesting perhaps using more colour would fix this particularly as it reaches the window where colour is used.

The media used correctly mixes together as it's difficult to differentiate what is pastel and what is sketching crayon, most of the media blends in allowing objects to present their materials correctly, for example the wooden chairs which have scrapes going down them.

Constructively it comes down to the areas of interest where there appears to be to much happening on the page, to much detail has been given to areas which don't need it such as the chairs to the front of the room and this makes it difficult to identify the focus point. 

The perspective of the arcs to the right of the page could also be fixed as the lines don't appear rounded enough compared to the left hand side, the chairs to the right also seem out of perspective as the chairs to the left should be in line with them however they're not.