26.02.2012

TAOP Level 4.

Part Two: Elements of Design.

Project: Lines.

Exercise: Implied lines.

The concept of implied lines in paintings and photographs is one that we tend to see without noticing.  We are guided through a scene by these lines largely without conscious thought.  

In the first sketch exercises I have illustrated what I see to be the main lines of direction running through them.

The second part took an age.   I have gone with a sporting theme.  

The first picture is of a game of bowls.  There are two implied lines here, one the eye-line of the guy to the rear, and the second the arm movement of the actual bowler.

The second is of a competent skier on a dry slope with an eye-line that shows exactly where she is going.

The third is of a novice skier with an eye-line that shows where he would like to go but with little chance of getting there.

I stayed with a sporting theme for the last part, thats if you call fishing and golf sports.

The picture of the golfer is about action and the lines it creates.  The golfer’s is coming to the end of his swing and is forming a line starting with his right foot, passing up through his lower leg, jumping to the shaft of the club where it continues on up to the head.  The golfer’s head is lifting and is indicating the direction of the ball, which is also hinted at by the divot he is spraying up the fairway.  

The fishermen are having a bad day.  The picture is about static lines.  The lines made by the three rods and the eye-lines made by the two adults all leading off the beach.  The exception is the boy who is clearly bored out of his skull and wants to be somewhere else.  I would have liked to have got in closer but feared I might lose the shot.