Predictable + Repetitious = Monotonous
Does your family “ooh and aah” over your art - but no one else is purchasing? Perhaps your artwork has the blahs.

Many people leave their success to chance by focusing only on technique - hoping and praying that all those niggly details will make their art great.

But Great Art is a complex accumulation of knowledge that focuses more upon COMPOSITION rather than technique alone.

Rules of Composition
One of those FIRST Rules of Composition deals with the subject of Variety. Variety is one of hundreds of ways to add interest to your Art. So how do you add variety?

1. Vary the spaces between the objects depicted
2. Vary the dimension of the shapes
3. Vary their placement
4. Vary the visual weight of areas
5. Vary the energy of things
6. Vary their weight, height, length and angle
7. Vary orientation
8. Vary the complexity of areas
9. Vary the complexity subjects
10. Vary the values (light & shadow) in good balance

A Word of Caution
Too much variety invites visual chaos. Getting the right balance requires practice.

How to Beat the Blahs
Practicing on your own is good, but going it alone takes discipline, dedication and years testing and searching. Practicing via classes and great instructors is liberating and will yield far greater results much quicker. Artists who continue to take classes tend to be the ones who grow the most and excel the most.

A good instructor doesn’t just give guidance and feedback, but fuels your passion, inspires your confidence and elevates you closer to the joy of creating by helping you to ‘see with the eyes of an artist‘.