Dots and Lines

Across the Fields to the Old Mill on Kneeton Road
Dots and Lines - Drawing and Painting the Landscape
Ink on Paper
11.5cm x 15cm (4.5" x 6")

Lesson 21 of Drawing and Painting the Landscape by Philip Tyler is about Dots and Lines. Philip asks:

How would you draw the landscape using only horizontal lines, or vertical points? What if you combined both or introduced diagonals or curves? This drawing exercise does just this, reducing the landscape down to some basic elements.

I tried a few drawings using just dots and horizontal lines. They look like Phillip's simplest examples and do not contain enough information to convey a sense of place or atmosphere.

Vineyard - Niagara on the Lake
Dots and Lines - Drawing and Painting the Landscape
Ink on Paper
15cm x 10.5cm (6" x 4.25")

Phillip also includes examples with a wider variety of marks. He seems to identify the major lines in the landscape and use smaller repeating marks to create details and texture.

The pictures on this post are more like quick gesture drawings of a scene. I plan to try a few more and give more attention to the quality of my mark making.

Boats in Front of Smeaton's Pier
Dots and Lines - Drawing and Painting the Landscape
Ink on Paper
13cm x 10cm (5" x 4")