Sending the viewer into the painting

Quite simply it is like looking at perspective buildings...because they get smaller into the distance, the eye is drawn down a road.  

In the same way, if you are painting a sloping hill, you need to have your paint going in that direction.

Here, I've done a quick sketch of a beach scene....see how the lines of the sand go towards the sea.  It pulls the eye in that direction...

Let random splodges work for you

IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THROWN AWAY...Hold onto those paint splodges and random pieces that normally would hit the bin....

I happened to put my brush on some kitchen paper - it absorbed the paint from the brush!  When dry, it looked like a blue flower, so I used it and just added a few squiggles of pen.

ONE BLUE FLOWER

I CALL IT

'OUT OF THE BLUE'

So what is this?

Of course.....a chicken.   Yet only drawn with 'Shapes'.   Just goes to show how a few simple lines can portray the subject.

Paint with Confidence

"MAKE A CONFIDENT MISTAKE

NOT A TIMID ATTEMPT"

Even if a brushstroke is WRONG....if it is painted with a confident stroke

it will look like it is MEANT TO BE.

Go on, try it and see.