Learn painting techniques such as oil painting, acrylics, pastel paint, watercolors, markers, tempera, glazes and others.
The size of the picture and the form that it has, it´s what we call the basic plane, where all the other visual elements are contained. Every plane has some…
The color in a picture is always relative , you will never see a color as it really is, as how it is physically. This is because there are influences…
Johannes Itten, painter, designer and teacher in the Bauhaus school, he´s the first to make a theory about the possible types of contrasts that are produced by the different features…
The colors black, white and gray are achromatic colors, without color hue. They are the opposite of a pure color. And they are also the colors near the black or…
The texture is one of the visual elements more important in the paintings. We can use textures to enrich the works, represent reality, add expression and to create visual sensations…
The perspective is a series of practical and logical rules according to human vision. They serve to create the illusion of three-dimensional space and depth on a flat surface such…
This is a short list of the most important elements to consider for creating and composing images. Composition Rule of thirds by Nevit Dilmen . Compositional elements: 1- The Rhythm…
The golden ratio is based on a measure or number also called golden, and represented by the Greek letter φ (fi) (lowercase) o Φ (fi) (capitalize). It is a ratio…
Everything is based on the visual weights, that is, the things that gets the attention of our eyes. This is based on the human psychology and our way we equilibrate…
Light can be represented in painting in all the very different degrees of intensity that exists. When the light has a bright and deep degree, close to white color, this…
