Week Three

This week we were focussing on composition. We had to think a lot for ourselves as we had to move the objects around ourselves till we thought the composition was good. We would then quickly sketch it and keep doing more, this was a good practice.

In this quick composition sketch we only had 3 objects and the cloth to play with. The composition has both good and bad points. The bad point is mainly the kissing between the bottle and the vase which could have been avoided if either the bottle got moved to the left slightly, or I had moved myself. There are many more good points than bad, for example there is an implied line that goes from the top of the bottle through to the bottom right corner of the jar. There is also a good balance in this picture as it is somewhat symmetrical yet, not too obvious. For a 2 minute sketch I think that the proportion of the objects is relatively good and a fair amount of detail has been involved.

For this quick composition sketch we got the chance to play around with 5 objects. Firstly, there is an implied line formed by the position of the objects, a definite upside down 'V' shape, with a longer sloping side and a shorter steeper side. The balance in this composition is also very good and pleasing on the eye as 3 shorter objects are behind the cloth and the taller object is in front, with a long thin object next to them both in front and behind the cloth. There are no orphaned objects, although there is quite a bit of kissing taking place on either side of the picture. The main focal point in this picture is this tall bottle with all the other objects being points of interest, as neither stand out more than the other. This sketch took me 2 minutes again and I am happy with the amount of detail I managed to put in, especially the different tonal qualities of the line on the vase as you look through the bottle.

This is my final piece from the lesson. This was the favoured composition of the group and it is clear to see why. For a start, there are two implied lines, an outer line and a more inner line, both following the shape of the layout of the objects. This composition uses very nice balance as the tallest objects are in the middle and then to balance them, the composition uses a short, long object either side, and where there is the longest object, on the other side it is balanced by two objects. There are no kissing or even near to kissing objects and none of the objects have been orphaned. The overall composition is very pleasing to the eye. Some of the lines of the objects are not quite correct, though the majority of the picture is in proportion and the shading is pretty much correct. This picture took me 21 minutes.