Lines: Perspective

Peel, Paul - Paul Peel Sketchbook, Sketch for Covent Garden Market, London, c. 1883

In Covent Garden Market, Paul Peel used diagonal lines to create the illusion of perspective.

These diagonal lines converge on a vanishing point.

We don’t see the vanishing point – it is not within the frame – but the artist imagined its position when he was drawing the sketch for this painting.

Peel, Paul - Covent Garden Market, London, 1883