Painting project
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
■ Work with different focal points
■ Adjust the composition of the photograph
■ Make a tonal sketch of the scene
We were on a driving holiday through Spain last August and stopped over for a few days in the quiet village of Loporzano, in the north of the country. The first evening there I went for a walk with the camera, looking for subjects to paint, and my eye was caught by this scene (Reference photo, right). I particularly liked the evening shadows falling across the road so I snapped a couple of shots and went back for dinner.
What I hadn’t realised, below). The top and bottom of the low stone wall, the top of the hedgerow on the left, the end of the field on the right, even the tops of the trees, all lead to this one point (marked in pink).
