looking at non traditional composition and quiet vs busy areas in paintings
Paul Klee I thought I'd look at non-traditional composition - where the rule of thirds isn't the key but the painting relies on different compositional methods. in response to an excellent series of posts on the various ways of looking at composition by Katherine (link at end). These alternative considerations or breaking of rules - but making it work - appeal to me more than too heavy a reliance on the rule of thirds. The painting above, by Paul Klee is a 'field' painting' - the composition is overall, the eye travels around enjoying the glowing colour that he creates by juxtaposing complementary colours, subtle greyed greens enhancing the oranges/reds/pinks. Most of the image is composed of the various greens, greeny browns and khakis, with accents of the warm colours. When working this way it's important that the balance is unequal and that the accent colours are placed carefully to keep the eye moving in the way the artist wants. A couple of the brighter...
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Now we can see the different lights, effects and moods. Beautiful.
Cheers
Shirley it was your remark that made me decide to show them all together and show the effect that an exhibition will have - walking along and the light, time and weather changing constantly.
It took me ages to make the slide show work and I couldn't write anything along with it because it immediately had a nervous breakdown >:>(
- Billie insert the slide show from Blogger and it's straightforward
- try to use the links and it tells you some of the HTML is missing - and as I don't understand HTML I wasted ages trying to sort that out:(
and don't try to add text as it all falls apart!
Your catitudes would look great as a slide show :)
Seriously, lovely work! And I will come back to see what other fun things you get up to.
Thank you for visiting my blog earlier.
Radosal
thank you