From Mockup to Canvas: Part II

I’m sure you’ve heard it by now: Don’t compose your painting with a focus in the center of the painting because that doesn’t excite the viewer’s eye. But sometimes that’s exactly what happens despite ourselves.

That’s what happened to me in a recent painting.

In this video, I demonstrate how to change the composition to keep the viewer’s eyes moving around your painting.

In last week’s video, I showed how to take a mockup — a small “inspiration” piece I had previously created and stored for potential future use — and move its composition to the canvas. 

In this video, you can watch me finish the painting I started in last week’s video. (There will be a link to that previous video in the YouTube description box.)

As in the previous video, I’ll explain the process I’m going through as I decide what to do next.

Click here or on the image below to watch the video.

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FROM MOCKUP TO ABSTRACT PAINTING: PART II / Working from a small mockup of your painting can really smooth out your creative process. And it can help ensure that you don’t fall into compositional traps. In this video I show how I ensure that viewers’ eyes keep moving around the canvas.

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