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Composing and Drawing Tip of the Week.
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When we are painting, we will paint what we are looking at. The key is "what are we looking at?" Imagine being on a riverbank surrounded by trees, huge rocks and sparkling water. Those things are pulling us to paint them, but when we begin to do that, if we are looking at trees, rocks and water, we are likely to isolate these images rather than weave them into an interrelated composition. Our results could look something like this.
Here the rocks, trees and water, even though done painterly and spontaneously, each isolates away from the total composition. If instead, I switch my attention to the light and shadow patterns, I find a more fluid and less choppy composition.
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"Approaching Sundown on the Tallulah"
Oil on Canvas
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Tip: Whatever the subject being painted, we enhance the richness of the composition when during the painting process, we look at the light and shadow patterns rather than the subject itself. As Wayne Dyer says, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
Happy painting,
Dianne
P.S. Here's a video you might enjoy from my August 3 book signing.
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