Prizm

I went to Prizm today and bought art supplies for my class. I bought 3 drawing notebooks and am excited about drawing before painting. This was something my instructor suggested at my last class .

He showed me what I will call "the axis" method of drawing. It is to draw a matrix and place the major points of the drawing at the intersection, or "axis." He described a painting he'd done in which the lines of the drawing intersected the vertical coordinates. It was a window that was directly on the line, then a break from the line, then a part of the rest of the painting picking up where the line had left off.

I found that intriguing that there is a pattern that you can use to improve the composition of a painting. I will try out the axis method and start drawing.I sketched out one of my paintings from the photograph I have of Sedona Cactus. For some reason, I'm not able to get a good composition of it, even though Iv'e sketched out three drawings. I decided to abandon the reference photo and start over with a new photo that has a better composition. So, I sketched out a new composition and started putting colors on the canvas -- mostly yellow and blue. It's still got a long ways to go because the composition is still not where I want it to be.