Teach Yourself Visually Drawing

The Landscape chapter 13

Perspective Study,by Warren Prindle

This is an interesting example of a perspective construction that would normally be used to develop an interior space. In this
case, the artist has combined man-made elements with the natural world by using squares in two-point perspective on the
ground plane to carve out a deep space. There appear to be the beginnings of an architectural structure in the foreground that,
in this unfinished state, frames the figures and helps to create a sense of scale. You often see this blending of architecture and
landscape in works of the Renaissance. The artist said he was looking for “Piero della Francesca meets Big Sky Montana.”

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