The Secret of Oil Painting - Learn How to Make Good Pictures Or How to Make Good Paintings Better
Technique is not the secret of painting. It's not using tissues, toothbrushes, sponges, palette knives, cotton swabs or razor blades along with your artist paint brushes. Nor is it about "put a little blue here." All of these have a place in our bag of drawing and painting tricks ... but the real secret of picture making is composition.
Underlying all works of art (at all levels from good amateur level to great pictures) is structure.
On the first day in my English Literature class in my art university, the professor played "Bolero," an orchestral work by Maurice Ravel and asked us what it was. The whole class squirmed and could not come up with an answer. Our professor finally said "it's a crescendo." That was the underlying structure. That was the idea. That was the organizing theme. Aside from Ravel having skills in melody and musicality, he was a composer.
Listeners like what they hear in "Bolero." Some listeners have music training and understand on all levels, including understanding the underlying structure. Untrained listeners like what they hear and while they may not know it they like "Bolero" because it is composed. That's why it is performed over and over in symphony halls. That's why a ballet was created to dance to the gradual increase in volume and intensity up to the thunderous climax that ends "Bolero." My English Professor taught me about composition in art using "Bolero" as an example.
Paintings have underlying principles that organize the elements of the picture in order to bring the eye of the viewer into and around the image in an interesting way and to organize the elements into a cohesive whole.
There are nearly infinite ways to structure a picture. Some are obvious, like a mother arching over and protecting a resting or sleeping horizontal child. Another obvious composition is the opposing angles of two fighters in a boxing match.
Some of the principles of composition:
o Beauty is organized variety.
o Variety equals interest.
o A picture needs a dominant element, a sub-dominant element and subordinate elements organized into interesting relationships. This creates order for the viewer so that you, the painter, can entertain the eye of the viewer with a varied and therefore interesting picture order.
o The dominant element can be made dominant by a somewhat central position, by size dominance or interest dominance, and through the complexity of the dominant element or its psychological dominance. For instance, the eye of a viewer is drawn to a human face.
o Those elements need to be varied in size and shape for maximum interest.
o The viewer needs to have a path to those elements that is interesting.
o Thumbnails ... small sketches ... can organize your picture before you get into the details.
o The negative areas (spaces between objects) are as important as the objects.
o The center of the picture is the most powerful ... not the exact center ... but the area around the center is where your dominant element gains strength.
o Tension between two elements adds interest (like the opposition thrust of the fighters mentioned above).
o Division horizontally suggests peacefulness.
o Those divisions should not be equal as that would create a boring picture.
o In a painting of a sky, mountain range and valley let's say you want the sky to dominate. You would make the sky ½ the height of the canvas (3/6ths). But a linear (3-2-1) stacking would be boring. 3-1-2 is more interesting. So sky 3, mountain range 1 and foreground valley 2.
Art courses, classes, videos and TV shows that teach technique but don't address composition miss the key to making good pictures.
To be sure, an understanding of technique, color theory, form, drawing, perspective and proportion need to be studied and developed but they should serve on an underlying structure.
Composition is the secret of painting.
The Secret of Oil Painting - Learn How to Make Good Pictures Or How to Make Good Paintings Better
Photography Tutorial - FIRST Lesson! What is Aperture ? Basic DSLR Photography Lesson for Beginners
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Photography Tutorial - FIRST Lesson! What is Aperture ? Basic DSLR Photography Lesson for Beginners
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Fashion Design Drawing Lesson 1 - The Dress Form
A good form is the foundation for all succeeding lessons. No matter how pretty a dress or design is, if it is placed on a " dumpy " figure, it will have no style whatever.
In this lesson we first learn how to draw a layout for the form. In the next lesson we dress the same form in a very simple dress.
A form must have good proportion and style. A form leaning forward, or making a bow, as one might express it, is not stylish, neither is one with too large a bust and a tiny waist; nor one with high, square shoulders.
This form is used for dressmaker's sketches, and for any dress to be placed on a lay figure.
When the dress is on the human figure, action comes in play and a complete understanding of these lessons will enable the student to draw the human figure in a variety of positions.
TO DRAW THE FORM
When drawing the dress form place the figure in the center of the paper. This may be done by getting the proportions and measuring to see just where to begin the drawing. Leave a little more margin at the bottom, than at the top.
Draw line 1, which is a very slight horizontal curve up, then lines 2, 3,4, 5, 6 and 7 as marked on the lesson plate. Line 2 is thrown out for the bust, and line 3 is thrown in at the waist, which throws the shoulders back. Lines 4 and 5 cross lines 2 and 3 at the waist, at first curving out for the hips, then curving in to the bottom of the skirt oval. Line 6 (center line of waist) follows line 2, not literally, but taking the general direction, getting straighter as it reaches the waist line. Line 7 (center line of skirt) runs straight down from line 6.
The collar goes into the shoulders three (3) times and is about the same height. The lines of the collar curve down, as does the waist line, but the bottom of the sleeve curves up. In the back view this order is reversed, as is explained in Lesson II. The collar and waist fines curve up, and the bottom of the sleeve curves down.
There are three planes at the waist: the front, and two sides. You observe but little of the far side in a three-quarter view. This is true of the collar also. These three planes on the waist run into each other, forming a graceful curve. The planes on the collar do the same.
To test the accuracy of your form, drop the dotted lines from the center of the near shoulder to the end of the waist line. This line must be vertical or parallel with the edges of your paper. Drop the dotted line from the end of the far shoulder to the other end of the waist line. This line also must be vertical.
Practice this figure, doing it many times. When you feel confident that you understand all that has preceded and can draw Fig. A with snap, take up Fig. B which is the dress form placed on Fig. A.
If you have followed all directions carefully, you will have a good form on which any costume may be placed.
Fashion Design Drawing Lesson 1 - The Dress Form
Photography Tutorial - FIRST Lesson! What is Aperture ? Basic DSLR Photography Lesson for Beginners
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