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Painting Tips: Art Composition and Perspective

An ever-growing, helpful collection painting tips on composition and design submitted by fellow artists.

Observing Effects of Light

A tip on how to better observe the effects of life in a still life painting.

Composition Painting Tip: How to Direct the Viewer's Eye Into a Painting

A painting tip on how to direct the viewer's eyes inwards on a painting.

Top 10 Tips for Painting Composition

Use these composition tips to create stronger paintings.

Composition Painting Tip: Placing Elements in a Painting

A tip on how to place the elements in a painting for a pleasing composition.

Composition Painting Tips -- Add Color to Primer for a Background

A painting tip on how adding color to primer for a background to a painting.

Composition Painting Tip: Direction of Light a Still Life

A tip on how to position the direction of light in a still life painting for a Western audience.

Composition Painting Tip: Leave a Blank Border Around Your Painting

A tip on how why it's important to leave a blank border around a painting,

Composition Painting Tip: Don't Fill in the Spaces

A tip on why painting it not about filling in the spaces.

Composition Painting Tip: Overcoming an Intimidating Blank Canvas

A tip on how to overcome your intimidation of a blank canvas.

Composition Painting Tip: Spotting Mistakes in a Painting

A tip on how to spot 'mistakes' in a painting.

Composition Painting Tip: Squint to Make Out Forms

A tip on how squinting helps you make out forms in a painting.

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