Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from What Shall We Act?: Or Two Hundred and Fifty Plays From Which to Choose, With Hints on Scene Painting, Making-Up, Etc
Angular Perspective - As in-a Street scene, which slants eor nerwise from the audience. It would be perfectly impossible to find the vanishing points in the usual manner - outside the picture; the canvas cloth being probably betweefififiwenty and thirty feet wide, it would require a much longer wall than most people have at their disposal on which to continue the horizontal line and find the points Of distance and vanishing points. The method usually adopted by artists is a much simpler one, and is vcorrect enough for scene-painting. Draw a line from the top to the bottom of the picture'through the point of sight; divide the Space under the horizontal line into any number of equal parts - say four; every two of these spaces must be divided into three at the edge Of the picture. Number them 1, 2, 3, 4, etc, DO the same at each edge Of the picture; draw lines from 1 to'l, from 2 to 2, and so on. DO the same above the horizontal line. Make all the lines in the picture correspond with these lines. For angular perspective do not place the point Of sight in the centre Of the horizontal line, but nearer e1ther side. If placed in the centre it gives a very stiff effect.
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