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Donna Adams
October 11, 2017
Hopkinsville Community College Art Gallery
Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Plano, Past Artist: Janee Reeder
Painting Medium / Media Acrylic
The two most dominant visual elements of design in this piece are line and color. Line is
the basic element in art. It is capable of infinite suggestions. It can create different moods and
feelings with minimal effort. This piece has a mixture of both, actual and implied line, and
contour and gesture line. Color is a property of light, but very important to this piece. Usually in
pieces set in the past we do not see color only black and white, but in this piece, we see vivid
colors, with different hues, values, and intensity. The colors make the shading pop out and draw
one’s eye directly to the little girl in the bright red coat.
The artist used shape and form to make the painting look natural and realistic. The
painting was very curvilinear. You could tell that the little girl was standing directly in front of
the car, because of the scale and proportion of her and the car. Unity is shown through the colors
in the piece. It was somewhat of an asymmetrical balance to the piece also. The focal point of the
painting was the little girl in red and it catches your eye right away.
I enjoyed this painting. It was interesting and caught my eye right away. I've always
admired old time picture paintings. My family has always said I was born in the wrong time,
because I'm so interested in the clothes, cars, and everything else from past time periods. I think
it was very important for the artist to put the car behind the little girl in the painting, because it
