COMPOSE

When I was a kid growing up in rural north Georgia, we made our own see-saws with a long board across a wooden sawhorse. Two kids, one on e...

Balance is equilibrium . We've all been thrown off balance, whether physically, emotionally, spiritually or psychologically. It's ...

It's always fascinated me how some artists have a knack for making paintings that stop you in your tracks. Sometimes it's the natur...

Ultimate unity is a blank canvas according to the would-be clever artists who have exhibited blank canvases as their "art". I ser...

Go here . The painting is "Carriage House" by Marc Hanson , one of the finest landscape painters around. Marc, himself, raised t...

A tangent is bothersome touching. You might call a tangent the painting's harassment because it creates an uneasiness within the viewer...

There's something aesthetically pleasing about a golden section. It is so aesthetically harmonious that for centuries, artists have u...

Once we've learn how to stay out of the image trap, it's a good thing to know how to place our images for the strongest impact and t...

Image traps usually hit when a bunch of stuff is in the same scene. Here is a photo, a raw image, full of potential image traps. ...