So the Spring Spruce of my studio continues this week. How come with this type of project, things always look worse before they look better? Right now there are boxes every where, shelves pulled apart and barely room to move. UGH!! On the bright side, I've been finding things I've stashed in there. Among them is my collection of old Art of the Day Calendar sheets that I've been saving for inspiration. I was just about to
COMPOSITION STUDIES
I mean doesn't everyone stare at one piece of art all day, analyzing it? Well I do!! (What else am I going to do as I talk to ladies all day?) Anyways, I pulled out some gems and started noticing where the artist put the focal point.
Okay, we all get that and I've even explained some great ways to draw the eye to the focal point. Today though I'd like to talk about how lines are used to do just that. Now, when I say lines, I don't necessarily mean actual lines (although it could very well be) but how the artist uses a chosen composition to form a "perceived" line straight to focal point.
It really is easier to show what I mean instead of talk about it!
The Three Graces, George Barbier, 1920
Tuscan Landscape, August Macke, 1914
Summer in the Black Forest, Hans Thoma, 1873
Grand Canal, Venice, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883
See What I mean? Looking at how the master's achieved their focal points is an excellent way for you to achieve yours!! The next time you are doing a self critique see if you can see where your lines meet.
Things I Like and Hate
First what I Like...
This week, I have rediscovered the cozy mystery genre. When I say rediscovered I read my first cozy mystery when I was 9 with Miss Marple series. My mother suggested it and then I had to get a written note from her so the librarian so the librarian would let me take it out. I really hadn't read them since until now. This week I have devoured Jennifer Ashley's Kat Halloway series. It's a
historical mystery series featuring a 29 yr old cook who works for the aristocrats of London. And solves murders. And flirts with her love interest Daniel.....a man of mystery. Intersperse in all this is a bunch of cooking which I find interesting because my husband has been learning how to cook (I mean like fine dining cook!) The series is VERY light with little to no swearing or sex and very little violence.. Just what the doctor ordered during a global pandemic. You can find the books on Hoopla using your library card.
Now for what I hate....
The bad news of the week is that Quilting by the Lake has been cancelled for July. I totally understand, but this is the second creative vacation that has fallen to this scourge we find ourselves in. They are moving it to the fall and into Ithaca, NY, but I don't know if I'm going to go. QBL has been my happy week for 20 years and its the routine of it as much as the classes that I crave. sighhh
It seems I'm just going to get creative and come up with some new vacations this year. I get 4 weeks of vacation time so there has got to be something good that the virus hasn't ruined!!
I'll be working this weekend diligently on my studio!!
So What Have Been Working on?!
It really is easier to show what I mean instead of talk about it!
The Three Graces, George Barbier, 1920
Tuscan Landscape, August Macke, 1914
Summer in the Black Forest, Hans Thoma, 1873
Grand Canal, Venice, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883
See What I mean? Looking at how the master's achieved their focal points is an excellent way for you to achieve yours!! The next time you are doing a self critique see if you can see where your lines meet.
Things I Like and Hate
First what I Like...
This week, I have rediscovered the cozy mystery genre. When I say rediscovered I read my first cozy mystery when I was 9 with Miss Marple series. My mother suggested it and then I had to get a written note from her so the librarian so the librarian would let me take it out. I really hadn't read them since until now. This week I have devoured Jennifer Ashley's Kat Halloway series. It's a
historical mystery series featuring a 29 yr old cook who works for the aristocrats of London. And solves murders. And flirts with her love interest Daniel.....a man of mystery. Intersperse in all this is a bunch of cooking which I find interesting because my husband has been learning how to cook (I mean like fine dining cook!) The series is VERY light with little to no swearing or sex and very little violence.. Just what the doctor ordered during a global pandemic. You can find the books on Hoopla using your library card.
Now for what I hate....
The bad news of the week is that Quilting by the Lake has been cancelled for July. I totally understand, but this is the second creative vacation that has fallen to this scourge we find ourselves in. They are moving it to the fall and into Ithaca, NY, but I don't know if I'm going to go. QBL has been my happy week for 20 years and its the routine of it as much as the classes that I crave. sighhh
It seems I'm just going to get creative and come up with some new vacations this year. I get 4 weeks of vacation time so there has got to be something good that the virus hasn't ruined!!
I'll be working this weekend diligently on my studio!!
So What Have Been Working on?!
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