Composition

[Wendilee]

 Reading about  Classical Art training reveals how much the principles transcend the disciplines. All the fundamental premises used in composition in the visual arts are also elements in music and both of these are rooted in mathematics- or mathematics is rooted in music or  visual composition. Titan for example  used ' the strength, balance, and unity of circles. squares, diagonals, triangles and harmonic rations.' (Aristides, pg. 41)  Degas said, " Even in front of nature one must compose." (from Shop Talk of Edgar Degas by R.H. Ives Gammell).

As I plan workshops for this summer, there is one in particular I have been eager to teach it is how to paint from a Photo with out being a slave to the image. Artists who have come to the studio to work usually want to use photographic references. The camera is a very powerful tool for the visual artist but one must sure of understanding what one is seeing in the photo and of one's vision.