Composition Basics for Abstract or Realistic Beginners

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Tips you can put into practice right now for your abstracts or realistic paintings

Composition is essential for a good painting.  Abstract or realistic, this course will give you a strong idea of how to use composition to create better paintings.  The arrangement of the shapes on the canvas can make your painting a success.  While understanding composition is a challenge, there are easy ways to learn the basic so that you can have successful compositions.  Included are tips on composition that have been tried and proven successful.  Learn about different compositions and try them out yourself. This is a fun way to learn composition techniques that will help you create great paintings.  Exercises that you can try and a pdf that you can download to help your memory are included.

  • Be able to identify different compositions

  • Be able to choose different compositions or their work

  • Be able to try different compositions to see it suits their work

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Doris Charest

Doris fell in love with painting while she was living in Texas.  Her neighbour invited her to come along to a painting class as a gesture of friendship and that changed her whole life. Painting has become a passion.  Doris took a variety of courses in the U.S. and Canada.   In 2003, Doris was invited to Rivière-du-Loup as an artist...

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4.9 course rating
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Patricia H.
4.0
1 year ago

Was not truly impressed until the end . I liked the different composition . The squares was fun . I like abstract art . I took this course because of abstract art .

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Giselle N. M.
5.0
1 year ago

sim, gostei

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Edwina
3.0
1 year ago

Audio quality is bad.

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Eve R.
5.0
1 year ago

It was a great course. Thank you!

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Jr
4.5
2 years ago

Great!! I learned a lot!!

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Tanya M.
4.0
3 years ago

Very useful information and well organized. I would have liked a bit more discussion about how to approach and experiment with the exercises.

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Kovacs K.
3.5
4 years ago

it has opened my view and gave lot of tips for practice

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Maryann H.
3.0
4 years ago

BECAUSE IT IS SOMEWHAT ELEMENTARY

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Jane C.
3.0
4 years ago

Not so far

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Jean O.
4.0
5 years ago

It’s a bit advanced for me. I do composition naturally? I’ve never given it this much thought.

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