IT ISN'T JUST ART

I LOVE ART, but it is not just the drawing, painting, sketching process that I enjoy.  My biggest gain is that it lets me see more of life around me.  Things I may have missed, just because they are there and taken for granted.  When you paint, you see it in closer detail.  What a great bonus ART is.

Drawing Trees

Trees can be tricky things to draw, especially when they are like this...

All those little twigs!

My Tip is keep drawing.....the more twigs you add the better and more realistic it becomes.

Look...

Where to place the point of interest...

My example is this simple landscape with a house in the distance.

Firstly, the house shows up because it is set against a dark background...

remember:  Light against Dark and Dark against Light always has impact.

But moving on to the point of this post...

Never place the main subject in the Middle of a painting

Always put it slightly off centre, it's far more interesting to the viewer -

 Work with the One-third Rule

If I flip this painting you will see that you could have the point of interest on the right

and it works just as easily because it is in the one-third section of the painting.