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Watercolour and
Photoshop™
©2015
Charlene Brown
According to
Wikipedia, in an axonometric projection “the scale of distant features is the
same as for near features, so such pictures will look distorted, as this is not
how our eyes or photography work.” In fact, the distortion in this painting is
caused by shifting and shoving the many features – waterfalls, greenhouse, stream,
footbridge, rock garden, hot tub, trampoline, patio, fish pond – viewed from
several angles, and forgetting to adjust the perspective from time to time...
I
usually explain this as a 'Cubist' approach, but thought I’d call it ‘axonometric’
this time. Also, the greenhouse (that
isometric axonometric wedge full of seedlings in the far corner) reminded me of a properly drawn
axonometric projection of a proposed addition to the Art Gallery of Greater
Victoria that I saw recently.
