This is an hour long study of an exterior landscape featuring both natural and man-made elements created using soft pastels. The colours are very dull to match the weather on the day of the study, where it was very wet. The perspective of the buildings going into the distance and the change in level of detail from the front of the image to the background create a sense of depth, this is also done successfully around the area of foliage on the left where the tree branches get smaller as they go round into the distance but are also visible through the leaves on neighbouring plants. The image uses cold colours to match the environment in a rainy environment, the wetness of the ground is also conveyed through the blue hues of the surface and subtle reflections of surrounding objections.
Light is shown through the contrast of dark foreground area that is undercover and the rest of the image that is lighter but not highly contrasting with few dark shadows to convey the overcast and gloomy weather. The layers of a range of different coloured pastels makes the overall image more interesting than solid colour would.
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