Am I the only one that finds Pinterest the mother of all Rabbit holes? Whenever I'm on there, I find something else that captures my interest.  And down the rabbit hole, I go!  That's where this whole obsession with Composition types began.  Long ago, I found a graphic from a book, Composition of Outdoor Painting by Edgar Alwin Payne.  Payne (1883-1947).  Payne was an American painter known mainly for his work of Western US landscapes.  This graphic (you can download a copy here) really changed the way I thought about composition.  With a few pages of simple line drawings, I could easily see the different types of composition.  Always before it seemed too complicated when really it wasn't.  So a big Thank You to Edgar Payne for showing me the light.  

After a quick search of my calendar days, I did find a few more examples of composition forms.