What is causing visual movement in this image?
Everything is in motion. Science tells us that within even the chairs on which we sit, there is energy in motion. Likewise, there is visual movement wherever we look. It is that one principle that governs all the others in our paintings. Without it, we would not see color relationships, value contrasts or how any of our visual elements work.
When you looked at the above image, your eyes moved. You can't stop that, it's something your eyes are programed to do. What caused your eyes to move is
value gradation. Value is the element, gradation generates the element to move.
In each of the next three images, what is the element being moved and what's causing the movement?
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Image 4 (The difference here is slight, but present.)
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In all three, gradation is causing the movement. In Image 2, gradation is moving the intensity, in Image 3, it is moving the hue and in Image 4, the temperature.
In Series 2 of our video lessons, we're focusing on visual movement. Available now, the first two-part lesson gives attention to how intensity can create movement. The second two-part lesson coming up March 13 investigates how temperature can be used to generate visual movement (we call it guide the eye). Then on March 27, hue takes that role and on April 3, gradation.
Happy painting,
