THINK - themes and dreams for compositions
1. Composing a Painting generally starts with what the eyes see in real life. Landscapes, portraits, still life. Many great painters have taken these to unscaleable heights of beauty. Find out about the golden sections.
2. The techniques of the Old Masters were time consuming and different. Their apprenticeships were probably tougher than any artist has today.
3. Cameras and photographs have re-invented the seeing eye in an age where time is the lord of money.
4. There are many wonderful paintings that are figurative in a myriad of styles. The meditation of an artist nowadays is how his way of painting harmonises with the world today, and with his natural bent.
5. Patterns, repetitions, balance still have immense importance and these can be taken much further. The inner eye, subconscious creativity, emerges as a separate strand.
6. This is a fountain from which flows timeless rivers of colours, patterns, anything and
everything. Dreams often vividly remain in the mind after awakening. There is one scene that haunts. Paint it as the memory commands. However strange, put it on canvas or paper. It is a most productive line to follow.
7. Thinking is a constant movement of images which amalgamate into themes - happy, sad, ambitious, loving etc. Discover a theme that is important to you. Hold it while you compose patterns shapes and colours. You will be amazed and excited by the outcome.
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