COMPOSE

Let's take a little journey with notan. Using this photo as our subject without doing a notan study, we might ignore some key s...

The subject is Herefords grazing.  One cow is looking out at the audience while the other three go about their business.  Light coming fro...

What do I do if I want to get your attention? In his popular Fifth Symphony, Beethovan gets our attention with a precise da/da/da/DUM.  An...

There are no limitations except those we impose.  No form or pattern any artist selects need be confining, rather a glue that holds the piec...

Last week, I introduced the idea that unity and harmony play different roles in our painting. I focused that discussion on harmony. Here...

I address value--light and dark--in the beginning of these discussions because I believe it to be the mother of all elements, even more fund...