Image Essay #12

Besides anime fan art Ore-sama(Anna Matheis) also does animal related artwork. This piece is called Sun Down on a Specie. The piece uses an analogous color scheme, with it use as different hues of red, orange, and yellow. The tone of pink is also in there. The colors choices work because they are the colors that are normally associated with a sunset. There is also some use of white in the piece. With the use of black the animal helps it stick out more.

But I'm not sure if it suppose to be a cheetah or a leopard. But from the title one can that piece has do with an endangered specie. Also from the title one can that the piece is suppose to have kind of a sad meaning behind it. Even though the most of the colors in sunset are normally are not associated with sadness, a sunset it self can be considered sad, depending on the situation.

The piece also makes good use of definition. Because the grass in the middle ground isn't as detailed as the grass in the foreground, it gives the illusion of distance.

I think the artist made good use of the different hues to makes the clouds in the background look like they have a fluffly texture, as the clouds one would see in the sky would look. So I think they look about accurate.

I also noticed that chormatic value of the hues get darker as they get closer to the animal, which helps it stick out more and makes it the area of focus on the piece.