Interiors

In choosing an interior to paint, pick something that is of special interest. "Allen's Clam House," on the facing page, is an example of an unusual subject.

In the top picture of the three thumbnail sketches shown at right, I planned to show a complete interior of this Westport clam house. On second thought, I felt that the picture would be more interesting if it showed a bit of both interior and exterior (center sketch). This decision proved to be wrong because it divided the picture in half, making two pictures and thus dividing the interest. In the bottom sketch I made an abstraction, using most of the interior, and I finally settled on that composition for the finished drawing. This is, by the way, another example of the help given by the use of abstraction in effective composition (see page 28).

On the opposite page is my pencil drawing of the final thumbnail composition with color notations. Below it is the finished picture, in which I have deliberately fogged the exterior in order to focus interest on the interior.

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