Contents

Special Offers

Introduction

Materials

Chapter 1

Paint How the Eye Sees

Visual Perception vs. Photographic Perception

Reference Photos: Friend or Foe?

The Peripheral Area

Simplifying Foregrounds

Blurred Edges

Demonstration: Paint a Landscape with a Simplified foreground

Chapter 2

Design With Abstract Shapes

Symmetrical Brain vs. Artistic Brain

Landscape Shapes

Techniques for Promoting the Artistic Brain

Negative Painting

Demonstration: Use Negative Painting to Create Abstract Shapes

Composition With Abstract Masses

Demonstration: Paint With Abstract Shapes

Chapter 3

Vary and Enrich Colors

Controlling Monochromatic Color Schemes

Demonstration: Color Matching

Color Temperature

Establishing Color Harmony

Demonstration: Variegate Color in a Painting

Chapter 4

Create Melodic Movement

Problematic Implied Lines

Valuable Implied Lines

Lost-and-Found Lines

Solving Problematic Implied Lines

Visual Paths

Establishing Rhythm

Demonstration: Create Melodic Movement in a Painting

Chapter 5

Simplify

Zoom In and Cut Out

Simplifying Nature

Simplifying Architecture

Demonstration: Simplify Your Painting Composition

Chapter 6

Avoiding Clones

Identifying Clones

Offsetting Clones

Avoid a mirror effect

Demonstration: Offset Clones in a Landscape Painting

Chapter 7

Accentuate Depth

Methods for Accentuating Depth

Demonstration: Accentuate Depth in A Background

About the Author

Dedication