What do image 1 and image 2 below have in common?

Okay, let's try some clues.  What causes your eyes to move around this next image?  Answer this and you've got half of the answer to the first question.

Allure Graphic Design image from Pixabay

One more clue to give you the other half of the answer:  What causes your eyes to go straight to the cherub in this photo? 

Bruce Emmerling photo from Pixabay

In any painting workshop or class you take, you're most likely to hear the words gradation and contrast.  In Finding Freedom to Create, I call them Worker Generators.  As a worker, gradation's job is to give us transition, like a path leading us from one place to another.  Contrast's role is to give us clarity, to allow us to see the difference among things.  

But these two Worker Generators have more power when they work together, when one works the other.  What's fun is we see this going on every day even though we might not notice it.  This interaction is the heartbeat of aerial perspective--contrasts gradate from opposition to similarity.  

Dianne

___ Last week we launched video SERIES 5: CREATING AERIAL PERSPECTIVE.  The lessons in this series demonstrate four ways we can create with aerial perspective.  Lesson Two, Controlling Contrasts is now in the eStore.