The composition is filled with horizontal watercolour lines ranging in colour from green, ochre and vermilion as well as diagonal shadows drawn with a pencil.

The shapes of houses, factory chimneys and trees have been marked in black.

The landscape portrayed by Strzemiński bears some features of analytic Cubism and is a real yet simplified view of the city.

[1] Painted in 1941,[2] The Landscape of Łódź Seen From Retkinia was created using the watercolour technique on paper, rather than oil on canvas.

This could result from the inaccessibility of necessary materials at the time and the artist's difficult financial situation[1] who spent the World War II in Łódź.