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Mastering Composition: Techniques and Principles to Dramatically Improve Your Painting (Mastering (North Light Books))
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Product Description
All elements of composition are covered. Readers will learn how to use a viewfinder to determine cropping and framing to create the best relationship of value masses. They will also learn to analyse paintings in terms of colour shapes of value, hue and intensity (also colour temperature) - the elements that make a painting. Roberts uses master works as examples to show how the eye moves through a painting. He will include before/after examples to illustrate how using the rules for good composition can improve paintings. Readers will learn how to create compositionally successful paintings through five demonstrations.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #84882 in Books
- Published on: 2008-01-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 2
- Binding: Hardcover
- 144 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Ian Roberts has been painting for over 40 years. He attended the New School of Art and the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and studied figure painting in Florence, Italy. He has taught plein air painting in Provence, France and Tuscany, Italy, as well as in the U.S. Ian is the author of the book, Creative Authenticity, and has created two videos: Mastering Composition and Plein Air Painting. He is a popular workshop instructor specialising in composition.
Customer Reviews
If you could only buy one book to improve your painting...
I have lots of artists "improvement" books. This is the most helpful and methodical book I have ever bought. Composition is the key to great painting but it can be dry to study. Not here - it is compelling to read and every page has incisive insights. You feel a great teacher standing at your shoulder. No artist, whether beginner or expert could fail to be impressed by the teaching in this book. And the DVD tucked in the back came as a very pleasant and unexpected surprise.
If I could only take one book on art techniques to the studio, this would be it. Exceptional.
mastering composition
This is such a good book, really insightful in a simple informative way.
I have taught art and found this book and the accompanying DVD invaluable for myself and my students.
Very good book
This book explains clearly the underlying rules of composition and how the movement of the eye across a painting can either interest a viewer or put them off. The deep structure of a painting is covered, and then using perspective, colour and value masses to strengthen the composition.
