Walda Juhl's Blog (5)

//////Composition #5 is entitled country Kid. I love the feeling of warmth in the photo. The young child grasps the chicken with her chubby hands. I would want to capture this feeling of warmth. I've decided not to use the normal, let's say, usual composition but to position the child on the far left of the picture plane in order to make the chicken the center of attention. I'm doing a mosaic using parts of other paintings. (watercolor). I'll show you when I get done!



Composition #6… Continue

Getting close to Christmas! And it's time to work on the workshop so will take this week off and get to work. Blog later after the holidays. Then back to composition! WALDA

Day 5 Still figuring out these pictures. Let's see if this works!

My third photo is from the desert with a beautiful multi-armed Saguaro as the focus point. At first I saw again the cross formula with the cactus as the perpendicular and the rocks as the longitudinal. Also the middle rock leads me to another formula called the balance-scale formula where you have a dominant center of interest with similar masses and shapes distributed somewhat equally on both sides. And then I saw the diagonal formula and I could see the lines very plainly.!

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Hi, Everyone!  Winter begins & i need something to keep me busy & to find something to do with this artistic energy as my house is filling up with paintings!

So I've decided to work on composition & to post my efforts while blogging.  I appreciate any & all comments.  WALDA

The first photo I chose was taken in Fall & i was very attracted to the color. i think by moving a tree or two, I could use the CROSS FORMULLA & a rectangular frame of reference. See my… Continue