"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way—things I had no words for." Georgia O’Keeffe Before proceeding to the second lesson, take a moment to step back into the energy. For a refresher, click > Basic Design Descriptions and Shapes and Basic Directions In this post, we will focus on incorporating Continue Reading
Lesson One for Building Art Skill
”Art is the stored honey of the human soul." – Theodore Dreiser Before proceeding to the first lesson, take a moment to refresh your memory. Revisit > Basic Design Descriptions and Shapes. Our First Marks: Line, Plane, Tone In the first building skill post, we introduced the method of building skills through small work explorations. We are going Continue Reading
64 Composition Arrangements for Artists and Graphic Designers
“To do it is not to learn it. To do it again and again is the learning process." — Fred Griffin, PNW artist, instructor at Burnley School of Art, and Cornish Fine Art, Seattle, WA and creator of the Fred Griffin Design Code The previous lesson described Perspective and all variations. This 11th and final tutorial, 64 Compositional Arrangements in Design Continue Reading
Structure Composition Variations in Design
Design is content with intent. Content without intent is noise. Intent without content is decoration. - Joe Sparano The previous tutorial covered a general overview of the Movement Composition and eight variations. This art design tutorial describes the Structure Device plus all the variations. Structure Composition When choosing structure as a design Continue Reading