Chapter 17
Landscape
The landscape of cities and the countryside around them
can be divided roughly into the following categories:
- tree-planted squares and parks;
- waste land occupied by vegetation;
- trees used for visual screening, such as around
industrial estates; - farmland and parkland in the countryside;
- private gardens and courtyards.
These various landscape types can each be sketched and
their aesthetic qualities explored. Before doing so,
however, it is important to understand the structure of
landscape and how best to represent its basic ingredients- hills, fields, boundaries, hedges, paving, etc.
Landscape drawing is a well-developed art, and
sufficient guidance in its principles is given elsewhere to
make duplication here unnecessary. As a rule, the artist
should concentrate upon the structure and form of
landscape, leaving matters of detail to a secondary
17.1
Landscape provides the setting
for most towns. The open fields
of Norfolk and remnants of old
hedgerows enhance the scene
of the market town of Reepham.
The church towers built on high
ground make distant landmarks
and provide the focus for the
drawing.142 Understanding architecture through drawing