Key Details
Title: Interior 3
Artist: Lois DeWitt
Medium: Colored pencil on paper
Dimensions: 9" × 8"
Subject: Surreal multi-panel still life and landscape study
Surrealist Literary Multi-Panel Collage
Interior 3 is an original 9" × 8" colored-pencil drawing on paper by contemporary artist Lois DeWitt.
This complex, layered work continues DeWitt’s Interior series by breaking space into distinct vertical panels. Quiet study-room details—books, glassware, a desk, and a window—are interwoven with outdoor imagery, including rolling hills, bare winter trees, dense evergreens, and a distant hillside house.
Technical Details and Style
- Medium: Professional-grade colored pencils on high-quality art paper.
- Technique: Dense, multidirectional cross-hatching and smooth burnishing create a saturated, polished surface. Subtle shifts in light across the segmented panels add depth while keeping the individual pencil marks understated.
- Style: Cubist and Surrealist-inspired Expressionism, emphasizing structural abstraction, layered timeframes, and geometric panels that divide a unified interior into dreamlike windows of perspective.
- Composition: A vertical multi-panel grid organizes the scene. The left side features stacked books and a paneled window overlooking a bare winter tree. Central panels highlight translucent glass bottles and a strong beam of light beside a curved wooden desk or chair. On the right, an open book, a glass goblet, a stone path, pine trees, and a distant hillside house extend the composition outward.
- Color palette: Deep indigo, rich cobalt, and shadowy slate gray create a moody foundation, balanced by warm terracotta, earthy ochre, soft forest green, and bright cream accents on the open book pages.
