Lithograph Drawing

The drawing I’m going to describe is called “Castles in the Air” (1921) by John Taylor Arms. The technique he used to elaborate it was Lithograph. (For more information about this process you can visit the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUXDltQfqSA&ebc=ANyPxKriVGqwHwzqZ7mGIl1rKvce5yoeUStx8kwcyGV0JvdF6vHhGXZK7Gno9H2PsrrLH0ikNduN-6sC0yhvV6G7FJpszOJZow

From the looking of that drawing I would say was made in Europe. You can observe a five floors tower (maybe a watch tower or at church) located upstairs of what look like the entrance of a village.

There is a one-point linear perspective that draw our attention to the tower which judging by the name of the drawing is the “protagonist” of this piece of art. The tower is located in the middleground of the scene, in the background we can observe more buildings, the sky with its clouds and some birds. On the foreground is hard to see exactly but I guess there is people or shadows, a tree and a bird.

Also there is a two points linear perspective from the tower itself, one leading to more stairs or a path (it can’t be seen in the drawing) and the other one leading to the back of the tower.

In the sky to add texture to the clouds, the artist used the hatching process, and to represent the light, simple lines.

For the realization of the buildings, besides the lines, the artist used hatching and shading in order to add a range of value and some details. The light comes from the left side, so that part of the building is bright, he hatched some parts of the right side and shaded others to add different effects (the shaded parts show a softer shadow compared with the hatched ones).

Reason why I said was a sunset.

The birds and the tree, they are all black, we only can see the contour (or silhouette), so judging by this I could say that the artist chose to draw a sunset. The vanishing point is in the back of the building since we can see the birds getting smaller.