The Structure of the Landscape.
There are some structural properties of the landscape that are important to think about when you are
interested in rendering light, space, and atmosphere, as well as solid objects within the landscape.Here is a drawing sketched after a painting by the great French landscape artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. This drawing rep-
resents, in charcoal, the simplicity of means that Corot used in the actual painting.
You can see in this small sketch that a convincing illusion of reality was created through the use of broad shapes with virtually
no detail. The sense of light and atmosphere comes through a very careful observation of the tonal relationships between the
sky, land, man-made objects, and water.
Study after Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot’s The Augustan Bridge at Narni,by Dean Fisher