This image holds a strong atmospheric perspective through its largest detail in tone/shading of every shape. The image creates the illusion of depth by adding a light, stippling like shade of gray in the topmost area of the image, and allowing its closest areas to have much darker values in a brown shade scale. Forest trees dominate the upper half of the image followed by a very light (illusion of white) waterfall, leading the eye to a human figure much smaller in scale to the rocks surrounding them. The closest rightmost rock has a strong dark shade which implies closeness, because of the shadow made or “created” by the main light focus being shifted towards the left. On top of bits of reflective light made through an illusion on that rightmost rock. It is created by adding very faintly lighter shades of brownish green along the rock. Strong atmospheric perspective and scale shift.
This boy’s head consumes a minimum 1/3 of the page. An enjoyable use of transparency manifests on the boy’s cheek to mimic reflecting light. Vertical location strongly presents on the boy’s grape holding hand, whose white lines fluidly dance to the centermost area.
Repetition of brown greyish colors add homely effects to the otherwise bustling effect of this family painting. My eyes immediately consume colors through guidance of flailing family arms across the piece. Each family limb holds or presses an object in some way that elicits anticipation. A man merrily holds a glass of water (?) with the anticipation to drink, and the rightmost kid’s leg extracts fear of him accidentally slipping off the table from lack of balance
This piece mimicks a diluted, foggy effect by laying light values in soft conjunction with mild grey. Leftmost of the clouds (in trick to feel seemingly “in front” of them) are several smoking ships. Their flags billow in light shining directly at them while their corners hold darker ones to give the illusion they are unseen. Their slanted angles give kinesthetic response of the ships supposedly giving out and falling into the ocean. This is supported by the direction of their billowing flags and the smoke surrounding their rightmost bodies.
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