How can you tell if something is good or or bad, effective or not, in a painting.
A critique is in order!
In other words, ask the painting what it wants you to do next!
After all, the painting has a being, that which you created. It knows what it wants to be.
Even if you don't.
After all, the painting has a being, that which you created. It knows what it wants to be.
Even if you don't.
The questions that you can ask the painting are called "The Principles of Design".
They are a universal set of ideas about the design of visual art.
They are a universal set of ideas about the design of visual art.
My list of them to ask the painting are as follows:
Contrast, "Do you have contrast?
Is there a difference between, light and dark, rough and smooth, dull and bright?
Is there a difference between, light and dark, rough and smooth, dull and bright?
Do you have a "Focus Point"? A"Center of Interest"? Or are there many competing, confusing areas?
Do you have a "Dominance"? A color dominance? A pattern dominance? A dominant style of brush stroke?
Do you have "Repetition and Rhythm"? Do shapes, lines, colors repeat? Is there a feeling of a beat or of a rhythm?
Do you have "Movement"? Can my eye travel easily around the painting? Is it blocked or stuck in one place with no where to go?
Is there "Unity" in the composition? Does all work together as a whole? Does something "stick out" or seen as if it does not belong there?
More questions can arise and the painting will be able to reply to them all.
Perhaps at times it will reply, "Let me think about this for a while!"
Perhaps at times it will reply, "Let me think about this for a while!"
Bonnie Lou Prouty
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