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Landscape in Oils  with Noemie  EVALUATION   Composition and Balance      Rule of Thirds The Dominant Element      Secondary element Balance and Flow At different times during a painting you need to step back and evaluate what you’re creating. Otherwise it can go down strange rabbit holes and take on a life of its own.  This isn’t about asking the question do I like it or not? We are too biased with our own work to make that simple an evaluation. Our questions need to be more direct and address issues like: Am I creating original art? Does it draw me in to want to look longer? Is it too busy, overwhelming? Or is it just plain Boring?  If you decide your painting has gone in the wrong direction, it is then important to evaluate if the painting is salvageable Be careful. During the process of evaluation or critique you have to be careful not to be too rigid with rules.  But I do believe we can all agree that rules can and will st...

1   Balancing the values and Intensity of Complementary colours 2  Creating mood/feeling with values and colour choices 3    The Monochromatic palette 4    Tints Tones and Shades 5    Low and High key 6   Face proportions When putting complementary colours   together sometimes wee need to vary either the values or the intensity   e.g. Intense red     much less intense green   More pleasing to the eye Using the same intensity can be too much                                                Complementary Palette     Colour Bias       Temperature You can have a warm YELLOW and a cool Yellow   (Below) A warm Blue and a cool blue Cool Purple is on the blue side Warm purple is on the red side In a Dominant warm colour field using a COOL Compliment gives a very pleasing...