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| Contoured Landscape - Drawing and Painting the Landscape May 2019 Graphite pencil, watercolour pencil, conte stick on brown paper 24cm x 13.5cm (9.5" x 5.25") |
In Drawing and Painting the Landscape, Philip Tyler observes that contour lines describe the structure of the landscape. He asks us to imagine a net stretched over the land and to visualise how the net distorts as it moves over the shapes and planes of the landscape – by drawing the contours, we reveal the landscape.
Lesson 6 contains an exercise to clarify the concept. Philip suggests drawing a grid on a piece of paper, "scrunching" the paper to create a hilly landscape, lighting the paper dramatically and then drawing it.
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