Series 12:  Perspective without Rules

S12 L1 Many Shapes, One Point – Download

[typography font=”Cantarell” size=”24″ size_format=”px”]In this lesson, S11L4 Many Shapes, One Point  of  PERSPECTIVE WITHOUT RULES,   using a European street scene as her subject, Dianne shows you how to find the tilt of shapes, then paint them with one point perspective by using a single reference towards which your edges will tilt. She takes you step by step for finding each tilt towards one point throughout the scene.
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[typography font=”Cantarell” size=”24″ size_format=”px”]  Many artists avoid linear perspective because they’ve been taught that there are rules to be memorized and followed in order to use perspective correctly. This series of lessons teaches linear perspective in a more creative light, showing you how to render your subjects in correct linear perspective without rules. This more intuitive approach requires only awareness of where you, the artist, are positioned and how to find the right tilt of angles from that viewpoint.

Among Dianne’s passions about painting and teaching painting is how composing principles can expand creative freedom if the artist transcends the “rule” idea and instead, transforms the principle into a tool that opens creative doors.  In 1435, Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472),  provided the first theory of what we now call linear perspective in his book, On Painting.  From that time forward, linear perspective is associated with mathematical rules rather than a potential for creative exploring.  Dianne’s intention is to reverse that tendency.

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[typography font=”Cantarell” size=”24″ size_format=”px”]Among contemporary paintings in which one-point perspective is adroitly used, check out Randall Sexton’s Blend .  Dianne makes a fun use of the principle  in her painting, Like White Butterflies.[/typography]