The Simple Secret to Better Painting

The Simple Secret to Better Painting

by Greg Albert
The Simple Secret to Better Painting

The Simple Secret to Better Painting

by Greg Albert

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Overview

Create art that's more attractive, interesting and eye-catching!

Even if your perspective is accurate, your subject realistic and colors vibrant, a weak composition - predictable, repetitious or monotonous - means a weak painting.

The Simple Secret to Better Painting ensures that your compositions work every time. It's an insightful artistic philosophy that boils down the many technical principles of composition into a single master rule that's easy to remember and apply: Never make any two intervals the same.

You can make every painting more interesting, dynamic and technically sound by varying intervals of distance, length and space, as well as intervals of value and color. The rule also applies to balance, shape and the location of your painting's focal point.

Greg Albert illustrates these lessons with eye-opening examples from both beginning and professional artists, including Frank Webb, Tony Couch, Kevin Macpherson, Charles Reid, Tony Van Hasselt and more.

You'll discover that the ONE RULE is the only rule of composition you need to immediately improve your work - the moment your brush touches the canvas.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440317514
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 04/23/2003
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 128
File size: 18 MB
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About the Author

Greg Albert is a graduate of the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Ohio, and has advanced degrees in painting and art history.
He is the Editorial Director of North Light Art Instruction Books, and the author of Drawing: You Can Do It (1992), a North Light instruction book for beginning artists. He has been teaching drawing and painting in the Art Academy of Cincinnati's community education program for over twenty years. He lives in Cincinnati with his wife and daughter.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Design Dynamics

Chapter 2 Making Things Interesting

Chapter 3 Achieving Dynamic Balance

Chapter 4 Pleasing the Eye

Chapter 5 Tonal Value and Contrast

Chapter 6 Color

Chapter 7 Still Lifes

Chapter 8 Landscapes

Chapter 9 Figures and Portraits

Conclusion

Index

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