Leonardo Da Vinci Shadowing

I decided to research the works of Leonardo da Vinci on perspective, light, shadows, and color in painting. I have always been fascinated with Da Vinci and his work. Not only was he a fantastic artist, but he was also an incredible inventor. As I look at his paintings, he makes it seem so effortless, but this was not the case when he painted. He put much forethought into the design and how he wanted to capture things. He would test many possibilities by sketching smaller details on different pages to get the technique just right. He started to research shadows and light. The process by which he went about it was very methodical and sometimes very mathematical. In his sketching journals, you can see his sketches that calculate shadowing by using