• Special message: There are still four spaces left in the Composing with Visual Paths workshop on January 25. This workshop is a real eye-opener! Last week, we began our series of exploring ways we can use visual paths to compose our paintings. We introduced this little journey with the converging path. Perhaps we are all familiar with the triangular path we are exploring today, especially within such familiar paintings as Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World. But did you know, there are other ways to use it,
too? WE CAN CREATE VARIATIONS ON THE TRIANGLE The way we place our images tells the viewer's eye where to look. When we place our images in a triangular relationship to each other, we can keep the eye roving within the painting. We can use multiple triangles related to each other, too. This is William-Adolphe Bouguereau's Little Knitter. Look how he created the parts of the girl's posture within three triangular shapes! Richard Schmid loved using triangles. Look at his triangle arrangements within his Nasturtiums. A fun thing to do is to either thumb through a book of an artist's paintings or browse through an artist's website and look for triangular paths. It can be most entertaining, and a bit surprising, too! Why not give some of those ideas a try? Enjoy an adventurous weekend! During my Language of Painting series, I explained the role of our visual elements. If you'd like to review those roles to better understand the behavior of elements, here are the links to each of those
discussions: Color --Value -- Shape -- Texture -- Size -- Line and Direction
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