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Series 12: Perspective without Rules
S12 L1 Many Shapes, One Point – Download
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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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.
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.
