Principals of Composition in Acrylic Painting: Pt. 1

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Melody on behalf of Expert Village. I'm about to show you more about composition and how to set up the drawing for the painting that you'll be doing in acrylics. So in the last segment we did this grid and I also mentioned that also that you can also buy papers with grids and that something that you'll be doing. Once you'll know what your doing you'll have a better idea by just being able to even by using a ruler, once you know the size of the items that you know that you want and be able to decide well if something is in the foreground is larger than something in the background then as such and be able to learn that in that in a possibly a different video where they will be actually be going further. So here we go, here's our top of the page for our purpose we'll just pretend that this just isn't here. And this is our surface where our painting is going to be. Alright so we've already done this grid, so what were going do is pretend that this is our top our page right here. This doesn't exist, this is going to be the area where your painting is going to actually going to begin. Once you learn how to do this a little bit better you can just judge better by using the ruler. And possibly using dots in the positions that you want things or in the case of what I like to do, I don't use grids but I do like to use a little bit of color and I'll take a nice Seana color that will blended in with my natural scenery and I'll use that or use my pencil to lay it out and use this to kind of embellish on it so I'm just going to use this for a split second. Here's an unfinish painting that I just wanted to show you how you can change the different actualbutes the different design and the tree structure and what we'll do in a moment I'll come back and show you another segment where we actually lay it down on this paper so that you can see it. "