Mastering Composition

Techniques and Principles to Dramatically Improve Your Painting
Shows you how to use a viewfinder to determine cropping and framing to create the best relationship of value masses. This work helps you learn to analyse paintings in terms of colour shapes of value, hue and intensity – the elements that make a painting. It also includes before/after examples to illustrate how use the rules for good composition.
Create Better Compositions by Design

The path to better painting begins with Mastering Composition. This effective guide blends clear, visual instruction with 5 step-by-step demonstrations to show you how to plan and paint your best work yet.

Composition is the key, and here you’ll learn to design paintings with new skill and confidence. It all begins with the armature or structure of the picture plane. Every great painting has one, and you’ll see through several famous examples exactly how the Old Masters used armat