Composing and Drawing Tip of the Week.

August 16, 2014
 

We've all experienced that sudden jolt we receive when listening to damaged recording or a scratched video.  In the old days of vinyl records, a scratch would cause the needle to skip, abruptly interrupting the flow of the music, causing a terrible disturbance in our feeling of well being.  The same sensation occurs when we look at a painting that is disconnected.

     One way an art work can become disconnected is an alien element disturbing the flow of the content.  An alien element is any image that is an interruption.  For example, a flowering crab apple tree within our subject's range doesn't make it belong to the composition.  In the painting below, it is a disruption that disconnects rather than contributes.



Tip:  Just because it's there doesn't mean it belongs in a composition. It works in our favor to use only images that participate in unifying the content, regardless of where they live in the subject you are painting.

This works better.  Delete the apple tree and use instead another grazing cow that serves toward keeping the flow of the composition.

"Sautee Herefords"     Oil on Canvas

Happy painting,
Dianne 

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