Technique is not the inexpressive 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 limited blue here." All of these have a place in our bag of drawing and painting tricks ... But the real inexpressive of photo 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 basal 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, together with understanding the basal 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 compound in art using "Bolero" as an example.
Paintings have basal principles that manufacture the elements of the photo in order to bring the eye of the viewer into and around the image in an enthralling way and to manufacture the elements into a cohesive whole.
There are nearly infinite ways to buildings a picture. Some are obvious, like a mother arching over and protecting a resting or sleeping horizontal child. Other definite compound 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 photo needs a dominant element, a sub-dominant element and subordinate elements organized into enthralling relationships. This creates order for the viewer so that you, the painter, can entertain the eye of the viewer with a various and therefore enthralling photo 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 various 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 manufacture your photo before you get into the details.
o The negative areas (spaces in the middle of objects) are as prominent as the objects.
o The town of the photo is the most superior ... Not the exact town ... But the area around the town is where your dominant element gains strength.
o Tension in the middle of 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 compound 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 industrialized but they should serve on an basal structure.
Composition is the inexpressive of painting.
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