Make starting a painting a consistent process. First, something grabs you about a scene or object, and sucks you in. You know that you need to paint it. You have to determine what is so captivating about the image you want to create, and it’s not always easy. This analysis is the planning that is
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Here are a few tips for good sunset photographs since many of us start there, this is general advice, any modern digital camera will have these options: 1) Don’t center the sun (it’s bad for composition and the camera can’t handle it) 2) Use a daylight or cloudy white balance instead of AWB 3) Play
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Waves are a central part of seascapes, whether the image is of huge barrels and crashers or small swells. The allure of the sea is created by those waves and their sounds, their shapes, and colors, and motions. A wave is made up of the face, the crest, and the trough. For a broader guide
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Balance is the proper distribution of color, value, and size weights in a painting. See some more in-depth discussions on calor and value in the color section! To achieve informal balance (the most interesting kind), these should not be even or else we would violate our compositional rule of even numbered or even proportioned pieces.
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