Edgar payne composition of outdoor painting pdf

Edgar payne composition of outdoor painting pdf pdf#
Edgar payne composition of outdoor painting pdf download#

Jim also mentioned the Yarbus eye tracking studies ( English translation of YarbusвЂ™ bookВ in pdf format and a research paper on YarbusвЂ™ findings.) This is really fascinating stuff for anyone who wants to delve further into eye tracking experiments and how we look at paintings. The reality turns out to be a lot more interesting than any of us had thought. They still seem to play a role in making good and pleasing pictures, but what I question are factual assertions about how the eye flows or moves in a picture. My own findings donвЂ™t negate any of the traditional compositional practices of leading lines, golden section, etc. In the course of a short email conversation I had with Jim about this, he had this to say: These were perhaps the most interesting resources to come out of the discussion for me, and call into question the whole notion of leading the eye in compositions. Jon also brought up the three posts on Jim Gurneys blog about eye tracking: here, here and here.

Stapleton Kearns blog was mentioned by Jon, and there are a few posts on composition from the geometrical design stand-point here (diagonal composition), here (a square within a rectangle, also treated on Bruce MacEvoyвЂ™s page above) and here (circular composition.) James Gurney: Eye Tracking Experiments Stapleton Kearns: Geometrical Composition

ItвЂ™s interesting that Vermeer appears to have broken one of the вЂrulesвЂ™ of composition and put an important element, the balance, pretty much on the centre line of the painting. ThereвЂ™s some other info at that link about the painting too. My good friend Peter Yesis emailed me this geometrical overlay of the Vermeer painting I posted previously. I think it has a lot of excellent information about design and composition, and a little thatвЂ™s not so good. ItвЂ™s incredibly expensive but is also incredibly useful and is unlikely to be republished any time soon.

Edgar payne composition of outdoor painting pdf download#

You can download all his books in pdf format here, or you can buy a hard copy of Creative Illustration from Amazon by following the link above. Jesus mentioned Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis which IвЂ™ll be talking about a little more later in this post. I do think thereвЂ™s some really useful information there and itвЂ™s an interesting perspective on compositional design. He then proceeds to do it himself, but the results are worth having a good look at and are more convincing than many of the geometrical overlays IвЂ™ve seen. To his credit, Bruce himself states that heвЂ™s wary of forcing compositions to fit preconceived geometrical devices applied after the fact to old masters. Mostly itвЂ™s about what Bruce calls вЂformat proportionsвЂ™ and is concerned with fitting compositions to the proportions of the rectangle that bounds the picture. Jon posted this page on composition on Bruce MacEvoyвЂ™s Handprint site. This one in particular struck me for its very effective use of negative space: A bit of trawling around the web has turned up some really beautiful compositions. Although I knew of Seago, I hadnвЂ™t seen much of his work. Landscape painter Edward Seago was mentioned first by Nick as an example of good composition. Since we ended up with such an interesting list of resources, IвЂ™ll start today by summarising them here so that we have them all in one place: Some Composition Resources Suggested By Readers Edward Seago

For myself, IвЂ™ve reached some conclusions on how IвЂ™m going to approach the problem of getting better at pictorial design which IвЂ™ll endeavour to explain a little at the end of this post. I hope this has been useful to everyone so far. All the input has given me so much to think about that itвЂ™s taken me sometime to get my thoughts organised enough to follow up with this post. IвЂ™d like to start this post by thanking everyone who mentioned artists and posted composition resources in the comments on the last post, or by email.