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Organising the picture is most important: don’t just try to ‘dive in’
Think about where things will go
Consider the most important aspects: what are your first impressions of the shapes you see?
VIDEO: 3 tones - light, mid and dark
Work from big shapes to smaller shapes
Work from big shapes to smaller shapes
Think of the biggest shapes as a pattern of interlocking shapes, like a very simple jigsaw
Think how you can arrange this jigsaw as a simple composition
Try to make a simple pleasing pattern of the big shapes with as many diagonals as you can
Diagonals will help to make your composition more interesting and dynamic
Diagonals go at the centre and the shapes get bigger and more square towards the edges
Shapes echo the edges when they get further away from the centre
Work across the whole surface - don’t work on single things, one at a time
Work across the whole surface - don’t work on single things, one at a time
Continue thinking about the whole composition
Don’t focus on one part, element or thing
Work over all of the picture at the same level/ in the same colour
Keep the whole picture balanced for 80% of the work: bring it all up to the same level, then think about focus and subject
VIDEO: 3 temperatures - hot, cold and neutral
Start with cold colours (blue, purple etc) and then move to neutral colour (grey, green) before going to hot colours (red, yellow, orange)
NEVER EVER use black - always Mae a ‘black value’ from dark brown and dark blue mixed together
NEVER EVER, EVER mix black with another colour especially not to make a shade
Background is as important as the object: shade, paint and draw outside the object as much as inside
Background is as important as the object: shade, paint and draw outside the object as much as inside
It is more important to put the space in around the object than to shade the object
Working across the whole picture will mean that you can establish one tone or colour against another
Having a clear structure of space in the picture will make it work better than any single details or cleaver piece of brushwork
VIDEO: 3 spaces - foreground, mid ground and background
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