ARTmentoring
Linda Daly Baker, AWS-df, NWS
Composition is KING!
Check List for Creating a Pleasing Composition
- Does the painting have order?
- Does it have harmony and unity?
- Not Divided horizontally or vertically in half- no distractions?
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Are all Four corners different?
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Are they each interesting?
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Each of 4 quadrants interesting - could they stand alone?
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Subject in the center of a quadrant & not DEAD center?
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Are there Arrows directing you out of the painting?
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Center of interest or focal point - correct placement?
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Is the focal point obvious?
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Is there a secondary focal point?
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Compatible colors? Analogous? Discordant? Compliments?
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Use of triangles in shapes? Colors?
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Is there a Diagonal thrust?
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Elements & principles well used?
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Is there Contrast? Is there a dominance in contrast?
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Dominance of temperature?
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Mystery & intrique?
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Interesting subject? Relatable?
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Personal vision?
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Is there transportation through the painting - does your eye wander?
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Not too much happening at the edges?
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Hard & soft edges? Rough against smooth? Lost against found?
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Did you build the composition - not just discover it?
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