Scale and Proportion

Scale is used to depict an object from the size of an original object. The object in a painting can be bigger or smaller than the original object by using scale. Proportion includes the object and it's surroundings. Katsuskika Hokusai used both scale and proportion in his artwork From the Illustrations to 100 poems by 100 poets. The boat is seen as the main focal point of the painting. However, if you look in the background, you see hills and houses. In real life, a boat is not bigger than a grouping of hills or a house. Hokusai used scale and proportion to make the houses and hills in the background fit into the frame with the boat.