Dianne Mize Studio

Tips and ideas for composing paintings and drawings

What Does Direction Have To Do with Balance?

Published: Sat, 07/18/20

Dear, We all know what it feels like to stand on a tilted surface--we feel like we're going to fall in the direction of the tilt, so we lean ourselves…

Breaking a Master Painter's Composing Code

Published: Sat, 07/11/20

Dear, We can dissect the values from master painter's work and learn a lot about how they've used values in composing their paintings. One way to do…

Painting a Blah Subject

Published: Sat, 07/04/20

Dear, Composing paintings is much more than arranging shapes, colors and values. It's also making decisions about how to make a painting sing. But…

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