February 21, 2024 - We won’t work on finished paintings. We’ll work on designing several pictures together, preparing you to take them to finish after the semester. Sketching multiple thumbnail drawings, like the ones above, we’ll concentrate on composition and value to imbue visuals with impact. My class is called Composition As Story, and focuses on how to move elements within the picture frame to capture the viewer’s attention through storytelling. As artists, we are tasked with communicating an idea visually. Change the composition, even slightly, and you start changing the idea. Learning the simple aspects of controlling how the eye moves through a composition will easily improve your work. My students see results right away. It’s simple: composition is the ballgame. By semester’s end most of my students come away with multiple paintings ready to go to finish.…