Dec
25
Enhancing visual interest
Category: Composition |
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How do we enhance visual interest? How do we divide space so that it will captivate the interest of the eyes?
Dividing a picture into equal halves is boring. Do not have any diagonal line forming from corner to corner of a painting. Also, avoid dividing a picture into equal halves. Do not have line that [...]
Dec
24
When compositing a painting, never make any two intervals the same. Things that are group with equal size and spacing is really boring.
The eyes love to see odd numbers rather than even numbers. Odd numbers are more intriguing for the mind. It is also this reason that triangles and pentagons are favoured more by the [...]
Dec
6
Compositional technique in Art
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I have to say ‘Artists are people with a precious gift from God- the ability to imagine’. It is the ability to imagine that a multitude of ideas, form, shapes and creative thinking take place.
However, most beginner artists will agree that it is hard to take what we have imagined in our minds and place [...]
Dec
3
How do we do achieve form in painting without sacrificing colour tone. Are you an artist that rely heavily on earth tone colour to create great form? Or you are perhaps the colourist who create paintings with loosely stated form.
Colour can be used to model a form in painting. In a monochromatic painting, we would [...]
Sep
26
Space is an essential knowledge in the understanding of design. Human beings live inspace but a picture comprises only of a ‘flat surface’ with no actual space. It would befoolish to disregard this ‘flat surface’ as something insignificant in the context of Art. Infact this ‘ flat surface’ can be transformed into what is known [...]


