The Complete Book of Drawing Techniques

Pencil projects

33

This very simple composition is made out of
a shape that repeats itself, and yet it is
imbued with a sense of time. We can see
there is order and balance and that our eye
is allowed to move freely through and
across the composition. There is no
ambiguity interrupting the flow. Movement

is created by the illusion of the overlapping

shapes moving across, down and back into

the picture plane and our sense of the

decreasing scale of the shape (perspective).

The way the shapes fall injects a feeling of

rhythm suggestive of the ticking of the

second hand of a clock.