Tom lovell Study

Composition and Focal point
They are held to the left of the picture, making the left side feel heavier than the right and he counterbalances this with her legs sticking outwards that almost create a triangle shape that cuts into him. He staged this composition to be on the left side rather than center because this is the rule of thirds and this is a general guideline that helps the image look more interesting. We also notice that the female figure is looking directly at our focal point, the man.


Color
Immediately when I take the color picker to this piece I notice that at first glance because of the way the colors "talk" to one another that the blue in her dress actually appears to be purple or purple tinted. This could be because of the close location these colors have to the darker blue shadows that envelope the figures behind them.

Again like we've seen with multiple other pieces on these analysis pieces, we can see the darker shadows hold together and cast the silhouettes of where the artist wants us to look. Its always important to mention that the shadows are not black, but a deep blue black creating cool shadows that contrast with the warmth of the two figures.

Clearly our focal point is the man, and this is reinforced with the colors on his pants, face, and arms being much closer to red and thus warmer than the woman's fairer skin. The warm colors coming out of the black blue shadows pushes him forward. We see he uses the rule of grays to explore more greens and yellows on the wall behind them and the water below them.

Values
Ah the values in this piece are an awesome arrangement of shapes that connect with one another. My favorite subtle connection i see is the white of her dress connection to the shape of her shoe that pokes out as well as the white of his shoe. We see the dress goes into subtler greys as we move up the dress but the concept is still the same when we see the side of the dress connecting to the arm of his shirt, giving us one big almost arrow like shape that points upwards towards the man.

We also notice here that the shadows in the backdrop dont appear as black as they do in color. When we strip it of the color we see that the darkest darks are actually the ones in her hair, she is actually pushed forward from the background because of this.

There are some nice connections made between the black darker shapes as well, we can see the line cut across the wall they sit on that connects its drop shadow to both of their shadows and his shadows run all the way up his legs and drop into the shadows of the background. We also see these back grays connect with the shadow shape his head casts. Her face is also partially lost in shadow which gives us another indication that he is our focal point since he has a much more defined face that is easier to make out.