Paint a Scenic Landscape: Secrets of Design & Composition with Steve Curl (Watercolor)

Have you been wanting to dive deeper into the secrets of design & composition? This is one of the most challenging elements of creating a great painting. Whether you like to work from nature or from photos, Steve Curl has composition secrets to share with you today.

In this tutorial, you will paint a scenic, wall-ready landscape and pick up all of Steve's tips along the way. Maybe keep a notebook handy so you can jot them down.

Composition and design are essential to planning an original painting. It involves deciding what to paint and what to omit, bringing the viewer's focus toward what appeals to you. Steve provides tips on how to create a balanced composition, focusing on the positive and negative spaces in a picture. He discusses the importance of breaking down the picture plane into various shapes, and how to make your composition more elegant. He also touches on the golden mean. Steve also emphasizes the importance of avoiding cliche shapes. He will show you how to look for shapes that are unique and have interesting angles or shadows.

Overall, the video provides a comprehensive overview of composition and design in watercolor painting and is a must-watch for anyone who's ever struggled with creating paintings that feel heavy or overly busy.

In this lesson you will learn:

• How to avoid "bulls-eying" your subject matter in a painting
• How to determine positive and negative spaces in a painting
• How to use the golden mean in painting composition
• How to avoid cliché shapes in painting
• How to incorporate interesting shapes in trees, mountains, and buildings
• How to incorporate value in painting composition
• How to build a painting using the elements of composition and design.