Reflection Paper On Painting

Texture and pattern are very easy to identify in this painting. The street’s cobblestones show texture and pattern in the way that they are arranged. Texture is also demonstrated through the paint strokes on the buildings, the tree, and even the sky. These thick, uneven strokes add a layer of depth and texture to all elements of the painting.

     When I look at the texture of the painting, I do get a true sense of a wood floor, a wooden bed frame and a piece of fabric hanging from a nail. I think he might have used different techniques for creating various textures in the room. I think the floorboards are of multiple layers of paint, as to create the tones of the wood. I think that the bed frame, however, is just a single layer of paint, almost thin in nature. The texture of the glass in the window gives you a sense that there is an actual surface to the glass. His use of texture gives me a sense that I can walk right into this room.

The artist used an array of colors in the painting to portray his idea. He used different values of colors to show the objects that are getting direct sunlight and those that are shaded. The trees that are in the sunlight have a lighter value of brown on their trunks and a lighter value of green on their leaves, while the trees that are in the shade have darker brown trunks and darker green leaves. The dirt road is a tan color with spots of darker brown to show where the shade lies from the trees. You can tell that the horses and wagons are in the sun because they have a lighter value of color and the artist used a darker

painting are blue, white, gray, brick red, brown, black, and lavender. The colors of the

Moreover, Caravaggio didn’t want his painting to be unorganized by making the people unrealistic sizes, so he added proportion. Proportion really helps out this picture because it makes it feel realistic. For example, Caravaggio made the man look big even though he is laying down, while making the lady, Judith, look small. This helps because whenever you walk around the store, neighborhood, or work you would see that women are smaller than men, making this painting realistic. If Judith was made bigger and Holofernes was a little smaller it would be unrealistic and the whole painting wouldn’t relate well with each other.

In this painting, two visual elements stand out over all the rest. These elements are that of color and texture. Color in art is an element that has to be phenomenal in order to get recognition and true appreciation from the viewers. In this painting, the colors are rich, vivacious and standout as dark, but bold representations of the uniqueness of it all. The use of brown and yellow and green and grey and white all come together in a harmony of color and unity. As for the texture in the painting, it is that of brisk and roughness that is nature. The sharp edges of the bucks rack and the cold, rough edges of the dead tree show

The piece is pretty balanced, it is more or less partitioned into four parts by the strong horizontal line in the middle and the road meeting with the edge of the forest vertically, the lighter areas in the top right and bottom left,

We can also see the use of black shades to create a hole at the bottom part of the rock. With his excellent use of colors, we can identify the good, healthy and green grass from the bad, unhealthy, brown grasses. Looking beyond the main focus of the painting, he uses colors to separate the sky from the land in the background creating a solid form of perspective on the painting. He also uses colors to create water forms as seen behind the young character. Now, for the sky, he uses shades of white to magnificently differentiate the thick clouds from the light ones. He also uses this to create a source to light to the whole area. All these put together creates a splendid, realistic and familiar atmosphere for the viewers to relate with.

The use color holds a lot of meaning in this painting, and the use of color reveals very important symbolism itself. The values of hues were used to symbolize the vast wealth of the two subjects, from the rich tones of the room to their clothing, but they also mean more than that. The use of intense green on the woman represents that she was from a family of merchants or high business. Since the woman was deceased when this paining was done, her bright and rich blue and

The visual element and the composition work together because he used the green in the back ground to replaces the sky. That is how I see them working together. The most obvious principles that the artist used variety and he also used unity. For the unity the light and the darkness of the colors are combined bring harmony to the picture. It brings out the blue and the yellow in the artwork. The variety is the way the art used to a two colors to make you see a different color when looking at the artwork.

be created in several ways; by connecting lines to itself, thereby enclosing an area.’ The main shape that caught my eye in this painting was the rectangular shaped rocks use as siding on the outer layer of the tower. The technique that was used in this painting was tenebrism.

The painting is oil on a canvas about 5 feet tall and 7 feet wide. It was painted on canvas because during the 17th century, wooden panels were expensive, hard to transport, and more likely to warp. With canvas, it simply became an act of obtaining a frame and stretching fabric evenly across, making it weigh less and unlikely to warp from humidity. Similarly, oil was used because of its flexible nature. The paints could be made of and used with numerous media with small additions causing great changes to color, viscosity, and texture. Since they dry slower than other paints, it is easier to change the color or texture to suit the needs of the artist and makes it easier to hide brushstrokes. When looking at the painting in person, since oil was used as the medium, the texture was smooth, but also had a rough texture from the fabric of the canvas. Honthorst must have added more paint for every layer to prevent cracks from forming, a technique created before his

The use of style is when artists were testing the boundaries of creativity. The way that this was accomplished was to have more a mystical background in the painting. This was achieved through using different colors (such as: a backdrop and bright foreground). At the same time, the body features are altered slightly to enhance the appearance of the subject. When

Texture. There are smooth parts in this painting such as the skin of the human, but everything else is rough such as the rocks in the picture.

As a photography major, it was never clear to me on why I had to take a drawing class. I dreaded each class because of the known fact that I didn’t possess the skills to be a good drawer. When speaking to friends and family, I would always complain to them saying, “I’m going to fail this class. I have no idea why I have to take these drawing classes.” As the quarter went on and the more I learned about the different drawing techniques such as the use of lighting to create interesting shadows or the use of color to create a sense mood and emotion, I began to realize the parallels that drawing and photography have.