The Simple Secret to Better Painting: How to Immediately Improve Your Work with the One Rule of Composition

Albert, Greg

ISBN 10: 1581802560 / ISBN 13: 9781581802566

Published by North Light Books, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Simple Secret to Better Painting: How to Immediately Improve Your Work with the One Rule of Composition
• Publisher: North Light Books
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1581802560
• ISBN 13: 9781581802566
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Create art that's more attractive, interesting and eye-catching!

Even if your perspective is accurate, your subject realistic and colors vibrant, a weak composition - predictable, repetitious or monotonous - means a weak painting.

The Simple Secret to Better Painting ensures that your compositions work every time. It's an insightful artistic philosophy that boils down the many technical principles of composition into a single master rule that's easy to remember and apply: Never make any two intervals the same.

You can make every painting more interesting, dynamic and technically sound by varying intervals of distance, length and space, as well as intervals of value and color. The rule also applies to balance, shape and the location of your painting's focal point.

Greg Albert illustrates these lessons with eye-opening examples from both beginning and professional artists, including Frank Webb, Tony Couch, Kevin Macpherson, Charles Reid, Tony Van Hasselt and more.

You'll discover that the ONE RULE is the only rule of composition you need to immediately improve your work - the moment your brush touches the canvas.

Reviews

Albert's how-to reduces compositional guides to one "master rule": never make any two intervals--of distance, length, spacing, and dimensions of shapes, or the value intervals on a value scale and colors on the color wheel--the same. His discussion of the "golden rule" and its uses entail an exploration of design dynamics, an examination of the finer points of dynamic balance, tonal value, and contrast, and application of the theoretical knowledge to analyses of still lifes, landscapes, and portraits.

Whitney Scott
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