There are no hard and fast rules regarding painting styles, but there are traditional methods of working and subject. Drawing and painting methods may include: brush, crayon, pencil, chalk, pen, scatter-work, stipple, Ben Day medium, line drawings, airbrush, sponge and pad. Present day electronic devices – digital or analogue, photography, montage, tracing-paper and light-box, are all aids to subject preparation and choice – there are no restrictions. The object is to produce a life or still-life picture, either imagined or copied, from real-life, photograph, print or advertisement.
All pictures, however produced, are described in language understood by: artists, designers, photographers and architects. Their topographical features relate to every scene. Landscapes to distance, middle and near (middle and foreground) their eye-line and source of light (highlights and shadows). Seascapes to earth’s curvature, figures and faces to profile (facing or looking away) and proportion (features and head height), buildings to elevation (front, side and rear) and aerial views to plans…
