Landscape: Colour in spring

There is very little parts of the image that is comprised of one colour as the hull  of the boat for example is is made up of blue and black because nothing is entirely one colour so there is no literal colours. The techniques used on this drawing to blend the colours are Burnishing which looks to be mostly used at the top of the drawing where the grass has been made of yellow and green with a reddish brown for the sticks. The grass however should have been done with the directional marks so there would be more of a grassy texture and would have simplified the complexity of the grass without obscuring the drawing because of the impressionism. The hull of the boat could have been done with cross hatching layers of blue and black which would have given the hull a more textured effect which is suitable for plastic.

The layers of detail in this go from the bottom right to the top left as the foreground is the path and the grass and the midground is the canal and the boat which is the focal point for the image because the eye will find that first due to the bright colours of the roof. The background is made up of the grass and the sticks. There is a line which combines all of the levels because of the focal point as at either point the drawing there is a line leading to the boat. The focal point is in the rule of thirds and as the line goes it the eye finds this image more interesting because the focal point is not centralized.