Drawing Horizon Line for Pastel Painting

Video Transcript

"Ok, I'm going to use my piece of charcoal as a measuring stick, and if I put this measuring stick at full arms length, and measure so that I've got a space about that much above the flowers, I can flip it down. See, there's two, three, four, gives me about where I want, and if I go four, one, two, and mark the halfway point, this horizon, the back edge of that table, will become my horizon, and it is landing below here, so I'm just going to draw in a horizon line. That's where everything else is going to be relative to in here, and that actually comes out to be a pretty good location, because if you've studied archaeology, or anything like that, you'll discover that the most interesting place on any drawing, the most critical things, should land somewhere in the golden rectangle. Let's talk a little bit about the golden rectangle, as a compositional device."