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Roads, Fences, Gates, and Walls

Roads, walls, and fences are parts of the landscape that can add direction, interest, and

vitality to a scene or view. A road, wall, or fence meandering away within a grouping of

winding hills can add drama and narrative to a drawing. A half-open gate can make viewers

wish they knew what lay beyond it and stimulate the imagination.

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Chapter 18 ➤ Made by Man: Out in the Landscape

In the Farmyard

You have only to go outside on a farm and you will find something

to draw—and sometimes, you don’t even have to go outside.

Whether you are on a big farm in the Midwest with lots of equip￾ment and big fenced fields, or a little family farm in New England

with a big garden, a few chickens, cows, and an ancient old tractor,

you will find something interesting to draw.

Haystacks worked for Monet, and as you travel around the country￾side you will see the various shapes and sizes in different areas of

the country. Big barns are the norm in Vermont, for example, while

the bigger structures in Nebraska are the silos for harvested corn.

Corrals and farmyards enclose areas and make interesting angles

and shapes. The animals themselves we will deal with in Chapter

20, “It’s a Jungle Out There—So Draw It!” They deserve a chapter of

their own, after all.

Try Your Hand

Using your viewfinder frame to

help compose the mainland masses

in a landscape, take certain

human-made elements, such as

roads, fences, and walls, to make

the difference between an ordinary

drawing and an extraordinary one.

Lauren’s grandfather

drew some of these

roads. Note how each is

an individual.

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Sheds and barns are technically structures and so are covered in Chapter

19, “Houses and Other Structures,” but you’ll want to be sure to include

them with all that you find when drawing on a farm. You can sneak a

peek ahead if you’d like some helpful hints for how to draw them.

Special Uses, Special Structures

And then there are all the unusual erections in the landscape, from

mountaintop warming huts to lighthouses on rocky shores, just waiting

to challenge you and enliven your drawings. If you are out and about

and feel like creating an unusual drawing, try one of the more striking

structures that decorate the landscape. Lighthouses, windmills, and tow￾ers add height, but they can also be the focus of an interesting drawing.

For you outdoorsy types, there are huts, sheds, cabins, fishing shacks,

lean-tos, tents, and campers—as well as log footbridges, trail cairns, and

forest service and Bureau of Land Management signs.

Artist’s Sketchbook

Cairns are human-made trail

markings, most often piles of

rocks that mark the trailside path.

Adding these mini-structures to

your drawing can lead the viewer

onto the trail, too.

Some of the more un￾usual items in the land￾scape may be waiting

around the corner for

you to draw, such as

this lighthouse.

A little closer to home, you could draw in your yard and try a tree house, screen house,

gazebo, or even your hammock hanging between two trees. Or, for the city dweller: fire

hydrants, parking meters, parking lot shanties, garbage cans, even

traffic signals.

On the Dock of the Bay and Beyond

Whether near the water, on the water, or in the water, you will usually

find human-made things along with the natural. From canoes on a

quiet lake in the Adirondacks to trawlers at the commercial dock in

Montauk to sailboats in the Caribbean to the ocean liner you are on in

the middle of the Atlantic, boats are there for you to include in your

drawings to add to the sense of adventure.

Docks, Harbors, and Shipyards

Docks and shipyards are challenging places to draw. A dock needs to be

drawn carefully, and there is a lot to measure. Once you get the main

plane of the dock drawn in space, use crossing diagonals to divide the

space equally and then again and again for the piers or pilings.

Try Your Hand

If you can get your car close to a

dock, try drawing it on your car

window (a moving plastic picture

plane). You can see the progres￾sion of the piers and the per￾spective of the walkway leading

out into the water. Do it for fun

and make a tracing if you like it.

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Chapter 18 ➤ Made by Man: Out in the Landscape

The activity in a boatyard can be daunting, but if you enjoy the subject, you will find a way

to frame an amount of the activity that you can handle. Your viewfinder frame will come in

handy for this. Plus, don’t hesitate to filter out unwanted objects and detail. This is called

“artistic liberty.”

The Art of Drawing

A boat can add just the right touch to a landscape. You might try sketching a fishing trawler

overflowing with fish, just back from a day at sea, or a canoe tucked against the shore, waves

lapping at its side. As an experiment, leave the humans out of the picture (also because we

won’t be discussing how to draw them until Chapters 21 and 22); you’ll find that human-made

things without the men can make your drawing come alive in surprising ways.

You don’t have to be

Marlon Brando to create

a dramatic waterfront

effect.

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From a Canoe to the QE2

The proportion, shape, curves, and form of boats is a little different from most other things.

The hulls of boats have more complicated curves that need a bit of special seeing and draw￾ing to get them right.

Sitting on the dock of

the bay.

Be sure to take your

time so that your boats

stay in the water.

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