The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results.

All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.

Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a movie. The crisis or climax is that point when you simply can't put the book down or wouldn't dare leave the movie, for whatever reason.

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.

The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.

A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.