What is Your Opening?

In my Toastmasters club we were taught to have an opening line or phrase for our speech. Everything starts somewhere.

These geraniums pictures came to be with the spring planting two years ago. They bloomed in my flower beds way before they bloomed on the canvas.

But more importantly you must have a way for your viewer to enter your picture and an opening to travel the painting. For example the painting on the left, I used a circle for my opening, first the red flowers on the left then the right and down to the daises. Then back up to the red flowers. the focal point is in between the "V" created by the stalks of the Geraniums.

The painting on the right is more of a spiral or "S" formation. See how the reds start and then curve down to the white of the daises. This keeps the viewer in the painting.  If your interested in the "Happy Buck" these painting sell.

You must have an opening but if you do please take them somewhere, Well lets say it together, "Keep your brushes wet." Good!