At the recent artists’ conference I attended, I had the privilege of hearing several great speakers. One of them was figurative painter F. Scott Hess who teaches at the Laguna College of Art & Design.
I thought I’d share a few of my notes from his talk about how to create visual movement in paintings. I realize it won’t make as much sense for you without the corresponding slide show and elaboration, but nonetheless I think these brief notes will be interesting to painters and anyone interested in the kind of deliberate thought that the artist sometimes must use when composing a painting.
Some methods for creating movement:
One of my paintings that I think has great movement in it is Pollination:
Also speaking that day was Glenn Brill, who gave an excellent talk and demonstration about Gamblin oil colors, mediums and solvents, complete with color theory and a lot of nitty-gritty details about the chemistry of painting. I’m not going to go into all of that here, but wanted to share this one thing he said that I jotted down (paraphrased):
“Because painting requires constant problem-solving, painters have the mental agility to do any profession.”
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