Multi-Layered Cubist Interior and Landscape
Interior 5 is an original 9" × 8" colored-pencil drawing on paper by contemporary artist Lois DeWitt.
This intricate work from DeWitt’s Interior series presents a fractured architectural world where domestic objects, structural fragments, and glimpses of landscape overlap. The composition reads like a layered visual maze, inviting the viewer to move between interior and exterior space, everyday detail and imagined perspective.
Key Details
Title: Interior 5
Artist: Lois DeWitt
Medium: Colored pencil on paper
Dimensions: 9" × 8"
Subject: Abstract geometric interior and architectural collage
Technical Details and Style
- Medium: Professional-grade colored pencils on high-quality art paper.
- Technique: Dense, overlapping layers of cross-hatched pencil and hard-edged shading create a crisp, saturated surface. Dramatic angled planes divide the image into translucent intersections of light, structure, and color.
- Style: Cubist-inspired architectural Expressionism, using flattened perspective, stacked geometric forms, and multiple viewpoints to create depth through fragmentation.
- Composition: A complex, multi-paneled arrangement anchors the lower foreground with domestic vignettes: a tabletop with a golden bottle and glass on the left, a central potted topiary, and three upright green candles on the right. From there, the eye moves upward through shifting structural frames, a dark doorway, and sunlit gables beneath a sweeping blue-and-white sky.
- Color palette: Deep indigo, cobalt blue, and rich purple are set against canary yellow, bright lime green, a bold red flowerpot, and earthy terracotta undertones.
