Vibrant Expressionist Still Life
Key Details
Title: Interior 10
Artist: Lois DeWitt
Medium: Colored pencil on art paper
Dimensions: 3.5" × 5.5"
Subject: Abstract interior / still life
Interior 10 is an original 3.5" × 5.5" colored pencil drawing on art paper by contemporary artist Lois DeWitt.
This compact, high-energy artwork presents a stylized interior scene alive with shifting perspective lines and bold geometric forms. Everyday elements—including a window frame, a round tabletop with vessels, and scattered abstract shapes—are reimagined as a kaleidoscopic composition full of movement, color, and visual tension.
Technical Details and Style
- Medium: Professional-grade colored pencils on high-quality art paper.
- Technique: Tight, dense, heavily layered pencil strokes create a saturated, painterly surface. Varying pressure builds smooth color gradients and bold transitions while softening the appearance of individual pencil marks.
- Style: Cubist-inspired Expressionism, emphasizing geometric fragmentation, overlapping planes, and vivid, non-literal color.
- Composition: A vertical, tightly cropped arrangement is energized by angular shafts of light from the upper-left window. These diagonals cut across the room, intersecting the curved blue tabletop, tiered pedestal base, and abstract foreground shapes.
- Color palette: Ruby reds, cobalt blues, and tangerine oranges are balanced by lime greens, deep teals, plum, and lavender.
