This drawing took 30 minutes on A3 with conte crayon on coloured paper. The study was to focus on the light on the landscape, the focal point within the picture is questionably the foreground due to its high quality compared to the impressionistic technique used throughout the rest of the drawing. The composition while unfortunately framed by the surrounding building delivers a strong sense of foreground, midground and background with a nice sense of depth. The two point perspective while difficult to work out, keeps the impressionism correct.
The white highlight while possibly used excessively, successfully describes the detail within the impressionistic landscape. The use of brown and white conte compliment each other in tone to deliver a nice contrast, while the white highlight worked with the papers base colour, the brown conte did not work well with the choice of coloured paper being difficult to see and not complimenting each other.
One of the lacking features of the picture is lack of focal point or in this case too many focal points, viewing the rule of thirds we see a wall, tree and two points on the horizon line. With the foreground being the consistent focal point due to its quality beyond the rest of the image, however the glaring white which was used for the clouds within the scene clash with the highlights through the drawing.
