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

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

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 way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions.

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.

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.