Posted in Learning to paint on Dec 13th, 2009
These lines signify solidity in the foundations of paintings. The combination of horizontal and vertical lines as in the Cross. The Cross is a combination of lines that instantly rivets the attention, and probably has the most powerful effect upon the mind that could ever have been devised. These lines and others help paintings have [...]
Posted in Learning to paint on Dec 11th, 2009
In this drawing lesson we learn of horizontal and vertical boundary lines. Horizontal and vertical lines are very important in rectangular pictures, as they unite the composition to its boundary lines by their parallel relationship. As a contrast to the richness and beauty of curves they are of great value and are often used for [...]
Posted in Learning to paint on Dec 9th, 2009
A perfect line has no artistic music. There are two lines that have the least variation and they are the perfectly straight line and a circle. A perfectly straight line obviously has no variety at all. And, the circle, by curving at exactly the same ratio all around, has no variation of curvature. It is [...]
