Series 12:  Perspective without Rules

S12 L3 Angles of Light – Download

[typography font=”Cantarell” size=”24″ size_format=”px”]In this lesson, S12L3  Angles of Light  of  PERSPECTIVE WITHOUT RULES,  using a stand of summer trees as her subject, Dianne illustrates the often ignored angles of light that communicate within the subject the location of the sun. In a rough study, she takes you step by step towards finding and placing those tilts of light rays.

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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  the angles of light are adroitly used, check out suchitra Bhosle’s portraits.  See how Dianne makes a use of the principle among paintings in her Earth and Water Gallery.[/typography]