Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Question about Thirds?

Rule number 1; Don't put anything (Main Subject) in the center.

Rule number 2; Break all rules, Crazy!

This painting layout is an example of Thirds, Top third is Sky and Back ground, second third is the main subject and the electrical house of the dam is in the far right third.

The foreground is the bottom third and the left third is the tree and other brush.

Imagine a hashtag # only bigger, that is your thirds, dividing up your canvas.

This is one way to give the best composition to your paintings and drawing. There are other ways to draw the eye into a painting. The spiral, and the "French" Curtain are just two of many. The spiral is simply that, on the out side of a painting you begin to build objects in the circle toward the center and it spirals to a main subject. The French curtain is a group of trees or other objects on one side or the other, left or the right, being pulled back to reveal the painting.

Whoa big dog, like the man said." don't ask if you don;t want to know,"

Well lets divide in to thirds and keep our brushes wet! #thirds LOL





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