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.

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

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.

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

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.

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.