The mood of this painting is warm and hospitable. …show more content…
The painting appears to be glossy because it was painted using oil based paint. Brooke applied the paint thinly onto the composition. The oil paint then dried through a process called oxidization, which caused the paint to dry slowly and created a glossy effect onto the painting. “A Pastoral Visit.” is an oil on canvas painting.3 Therefore, the painting’s support, or surface in which the paint is painted on, is the 119.38cm x 167.16cm4 white canvas. The canvas was white because a layer of primer was applied to help protect the canvas from future layers of paint.
Brooke’s designed this composition to have symmetrical balance. A Symmetrically balanced painting means that the painting is symmetrical along the axis of the composition. “A Pastoral Visit” is nearly symmetrical along its axis. If the painting was cut in half, each half could survive as its own separate piece of work. Because both sides of the painting have equal visual weight. The only thing that would look weird on each half is the banjo. The top half of the banjo and the neck would be in the first half and the rest on the second