The room was bare and didn’t look as though it had been used in years. Desolate, derelict. The monochrome tiled floor was cracked and battered, and the door had a broken cobweb at its corner. Bland, ruined. There was little light in the room; the thin window on the back wall was done-up with blinds and the pull was frayed badly. Opposite from the door sat a small window which showed a dreary back yard: old, dead trees bent, bowing to the wind; the garden was full of bits of rubbish; and the once-white picket fence seemed to have blown inwards. No doubt, creatures ran rabid amongst the mess.

In the faint light, the walls and door looked filthy. A mouse-hole from the garden had cracked its way through the plaster, and on the floor lay a broken wine bottle.

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A descriptive piece inspired by a Single Point Perspective art lesson.

Year 8, we were told to draw a room using a Single Point Perspective angle and then decorate it however we want, as long as the perspective was right.
For reasons I can no longer remember, I decorated my room in a way that made it look unloved, empty and run-down. I even showed the abandoned garden outside through one of the windows.
One the next page of my artbook, I found that I had written a short piece, describing what I had drawn. I don't know why; that was not part of the assignment. Anyways, this is the piece, touched up only a little.

updated Jul 15 '11 by SumnerzAngel