When starting a new painting I want to just get right to the paint and not worry too much about the composition of the image I’m working from. I normally find an image then edit it digitally so I can interject something of myself into the composition then paint from there and this process I like to rush. Not today. I’m taking my time because I’ve seen that paintings have a structure not unlink a building.
When your building a home you start with a plan, that has to come first. The plan is the digital composition that I put together. If this is bad then everything after it will fail. Just like if an architect drew up a home that was structurally unsound it would fall apart way before you put up the dry wall.
Here is my idea of a structure of a painting and how it is best built. In order.
Just my theory built over the past 11 years.
