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| The Simple Secret to Better Painting: How to Immediately Improve Your Work with the One Rule of Composition | 
 enlarge | Author: Greg Albert
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (17 reviews)
Sales Rank: 70325
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 1581802560
Dewey Decimal Number: 750.18
UPC: 035313320972
EAN: 9781581802566
ASIN: 1581802560
Publication Date: May 7, 2003
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Product Description
Composition is one of the most important elements to any painting, but it can also be one of the most intimidating. The long list of rules for designing and structuring a work is complicated, hard to remember and downright mystifying. In this simple resource, Greg Albert boils it all down to one golden rule: Never make any two intervals the same. He demonstrates this fool-proof technique with clear, concise diagrams, before-and-after student paintings and samples from today?s top painters. Readers will get to learn from the work of Frank Webb, Tony Couch, Zoltan Szabo, Tony Van Hasselt, Tom Lynch and many more! Artists of all levels with find this secret to great composition easy to remember and even easier to use. Greg Albert is Editorial Director of North Light Books. He?s also an artist, author and teacher who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Fabulous book for anyone serious about painting October 28, 2008
My teacher suggested that I buy this book and it has invaluable information. I highly suggest getting it if you are serious about learning the foundations of oil painting. Great reference book to for color.
Superb Value September 25, 2008
Ignore the cheesy title, this book is a gem. It is far superior to many books I've seen on composition. It's easy to understand and there are exercises throughout to help you improve your compositions, and analyze the paintings you've already completed. I cannot recommend this book highly enough!
worth it May 14, 2008
I have nothing to add to other's reviews, just want to lift up the rating.
Five stars with no doubts.
Well done March 29, 2008
Although this book focuses on one secret to better painting, it shows through images of every kind, and every subject, how that concept can be applied to any type of work. Sometimes focusing on just one element for improvement can be the best way to integrate that concept. In this case, he clearly demonstrates the application of the idea in all its forms.
VERY helpful. November 25, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Very helpful.
I know a lot about drawing, and a lot about controlling oils, but when I am out there doing a Plein Air, I can't remember any principles of composition. All I can think of is, "Ack! The sun is moving!" I am just painting furiously.
This book is like BRAINWASHING. "There is one magic rule: never make any two intervals the same."
Values: never make any two intervals the same.
Intensity: never make any two intervals the same.
Shapes: never make any two intervals the same.
Etc. But he goes into even more details than that. He has LOTS of little areas that this rule applies to.
Each page covers this rule in respect to ONE aspect of composition. And every time he reiterates: never make any two intervals the same.
Most pages have a great painting on them, and not just by him. Offhand, I remember seeing some by Kevin Macpherson. This way you see how professionals apply this rule. I realize that every GREAT painting I have ever seen has incorporated this rule into every facet of their composition.
By reading this rule on every page, and seeing how it applies to so many nit-picky little things, I am noticing it more in my painting. The last time I was doing a plien air, I thought, "Oh, the fence posts are all the same: *never make any two intervals the same*, I should angle a few of them. Oh, these two trees are identical: *never make any two intervals the same*, I will make one a little warmer and shorter". Etc. I could only remember it though becuase of his successful brainwashing technique.
I find this book to be very helpful, and as soon as I am done with it, I am going to read it again. Regardless of your skill level, and regardless of your medium, this book will improve your composition, and therefore your finished product.
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