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Index
Title Page
Special Offers
Table of Contents
Dedication
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
Copyright
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