Dianne Mize Studio

Tips and ideas for composing paintings and drawings

Paint Without Looking at What You Are Doing

Published: Fri, 07/20/18

Dear, Back in the 60's when I was an art student at the University of Georgia, we were taught to draw in the dark. That's right! The lights were all…

Re-send of Quick Tip 174

Published: Wed, 07/18/18

July 18, 2018 This Week's Quick Tip 174Re-send of GRADATED VALUE FIELDS

How to Shift a Focal Point

Published: Sat, 07/14/18

Dear, Think about it: A focal point is created by the artist, not the subject.For e ample, a single barn is sitting alone in a field does not make it…

Merging Shapes Into Value Fields

Published: Sat, 07/07/18

Dear, Composing a painting is much more than just arranging shapes and values. Nobody understood this better than the almost forgotten artist and…

A Lesson from Monet

Published: Sat, 06/30/18

Dear, The Athenium website shows 1338 paintings by Claude Monet. Within this massage collection, often we find the same subjects painted over and over…

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