Landscape.is... Vocabulary development

A list of landscape terminology...
...would appear to be relevant to an ever expanding interest in landscape expressionism.

Animated
Animation
Aspect
Brown field
Client
Clientele
Contemporary
Context
Density
Detailing
Development
Distinctive
Diversity
Elevations
Expanses
Features
Finish
Function
Geometry
Green field
Habitat
Infrastructure
Innovation
Landforms
Layers
Levels
Locality
Materials
Modern
Mounding
Orientation
Participants
Private
Project
Prospect
Public
Qualities
Reclamation
Regeneration
Relate
Scape
Scheme
Scope
Sections
Site specific
Space
Strategies
Style
Stylised
Surfacing
Surroundings
Survey
Sustainability
Technical
Technique
Texture
Topography
Transformation
Undulations
Upkeep
Users
Value

Landscape.is... Developments procession

Light breaks, dawn is fulfilled.
The utterance of thousands takes shrill second place,
their chorus receeding as light displays space...
Transient.
All space in a manner is thus understood,
displayed in mediums of ebony and gold.
The very same may in nature be seen in hue's of light'
or shown in satin cover, impenetrable night.
Shadows lift, highway hum transcends.
Self sufficient miriads seek meaning and place.
Simplicity watches aghast at complexity.
Lengthening again, dark fingers steal, reclaiming space...
Transient.
An effort is made, lights ignorance of dark to effect.
Submission attends, enrobed in colours minions all made black.
Time the old master whose keys unlock perceptions depth.
Space he dresses...
Transient.

Landscape.is... Development of perception

There are almost limitless numbers of ways for a subject to be viewed but if you want to learn something from it then often the best way is to look at it through the eyes of someone more experienced than yourself. Drawing is no different and it is often invaluable to the development of your drawing style to first study how great artists record similar subject material and attempt to emulate it in your own work. In so doing you will discover how well their methods work for you and begin to peice together your own. It is also often usefull to attempt to copy their work as this leads you by necessity to discover how they achieved the effects they have in their work and to develop your own variations of them.

Landscape.is... Development in Perspective

There are certain principals that need to be applied to the practicalities of illustrating larger subject material such as landscape. One of these is perspective, perspective allows a view to be interpreted literally, it allows the viewer of a perspective landscape drawing to view precisely what the artist saw as he was drawing and it was the dawning of a new era when it was invented as it changed the world of art from being two dimensional to three.

Landscape.is... Detailed development

Looking at a subject in great detail can be enlightening, as it aids you in understanding it's larger nature more thoroughly. Likewise drawing something in intricate detail allows skills of perception and interpretation to be developed, so that drawings of a larger nature can be informed by your understanding of the intricate detail of your subjects workings. Leonardo Da vinci was famed for precisely this, In fact he went to the lengths of dissecting corpses in order to better understand their anatomy and his illustrations of the human form clearly reflect his immense understanding of its movement.

Landscape.is... personal to development

Why are faces so hard to draw?! Maybe it's something to do with how we percieve things and what it is we focus on when looking at different types of new subjects. In the case of faces we are bound to carry some preconceptions on what a face should ideally look like. whatever the case I knew it wouldnt be easy as i've allways had difficulty with portraits and this one proved itself to be no different. This was one of four attempts to conquor different drawing subjects for a university focus week.