Exercise: Real and Implied Triangles.
Lighting is everything! I have been reading Drawing on the Right side of the Brian (1) and my awareness for form has increased. A shadow can define a line or shape - shading of an area can outline a perceived shape in our minds and look like a line or form an shape.
In the introduction to this project, Freeman, in the course materials at p 87 states that "A shape is both an outline and an enclosure, ....the extent to which it appears as one or the other depends very much on the subject and the lighting. Shape...defines and object, but it can also be implied in much the same way as a line can".
In this exercise, we are asked to produce two sets of triangular compositions on using "real" triangles, the other using "implied" triangles.
Real Triangles
Photograph 1. I found this replica of a Chinese workman's cottage situated in Arrowtown, South Island New Zealand and thought this represented a real triangle. The roof forms the apex and the sides and floor complete the rest of the triangle.
Photograph 2. Here there is a triangle converging towards the top of the frame in remnants of this medieval cathedral in Chester.
Photograph 3. The inverted triangle is evident in the shape in the negative space.
In this image, the lilly forms the shape of the inverted triangle.
(1) Edwards, Betty, (1993): Drawing on the Right Side of the Brian: How to Unlock Your Hidden Artistic Talent, Harper Collins
