Soon you will be painting more boldly and confidently than ever before with less reworking and overworking. Once you understand the basic principles of design, you'll be amazed at how quickly and effectively your compositions come together. Based on these examples, you'll practice what you've learned following a series of hands-on demonstrations.

Every great painting has one, and you'll see through several famous examples exactly how the Old Masters used armatures to create movement, narrative, harmony and fluidity. It all begins with the armature or structure of the picture plane. Composition is the key, and here you'll learn to design paintings with new skill and confidence. This effective guide blends clear, visual instruction with 5 step-by-step demonstrations to show you how to plan and paint your best work yet. Contains a bonus DVD that shows how altering one element of a painting can change the entire composition.īook Synopsis Create Better Compositions by Design The path to better painting begins with Mastering Composition. Readers will learn how to create compositionally successful paintings through 6-8 demonstrations. He will include before/after examples to illustrate how using the rules for good composition can improve paintings.

Roberts uses master works as examples to show how the eye moves through a painting. They will also learn to analyze paintings in terms of color shapes of value, hue, and intensity (also color temperature)the elements that make a painting. About the Book Learn how to use a viewfinder to determine cropping and framing to create the best relationship of value masses.

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