sketches

This sketch is the eighty-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year…

Day eighty-seven: Three hours in math class inspired the idea of academically constructing perspective and proportion for today’s sketch. As I walked to the parking ramp at the U of M, I decided to use the methods 15th-century theorist Leon Battista Alberti described as “correct.” I don’t know about the correctness, per se, but the exercise was fascinating. My composition includes the visual products of two steps in Alberti’s process within a single composition. The geometry in the top half is used to determine some measurements, but then discarded. When I finished all the measuring and line drawing, I decided it needed some color, which gives it the modern feel of a 20th-century constructivist painting.