Ian Roberts explains how better design equals better paintings. Following the principles in this video will help to eliminate repainting, overworking and frustration. Ian Roberts' most recents books: Creative Authenticity and Mastering Composition. Mastering Composition; Creative Authenticity Mastering Composition.

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I recommend that you borrow this one before you buy it. I found Ian's book incomplete and flawed but his '5 picture planes' was my starting point for visual design.

Reading his book was my lightbulb moment. I invested 6 months of hard study with little time for painting to find that starting point. It may not work for you, but it was an epiphany for me. It's out of print, but Rex Brant's, Seeing with a Painter's Eye is my current number one design book. In used condition, it is still quite affordable. If you are looking for a gallery of paintings, this book is not for you.

At 123 pages, mostly black and white illustrations, I only wish Rex had produced a larger book. Tony Couch's 'You Can Do It', is about 50% about composition and design. Tony is an Edgar Whitney student and this book is a wonderful compliment to Edgar's 'Complete Guide to Watercolor Painting'.

Edgar's prose and compound sentences may be dated in today's sound bite world, but there is a gold mine worth of information about composition is his slim book and it's still in print, but be warned, there are few colour pictures in this book. Hbo go username and password hack download free. Jo Taylor's 'Watercolor Wisdom' is a watercolour painting book, but Jo packs a lot of design including some design exercises into her book.

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Very well illiustrated. I suspect that Jo was either a student of Edgar Whitney, or influenced by is book. The Artist's Guide to Composition by Frank Webb, is a YAEWS (yet another Edgar Whitney student) combines the examples of 24 artists to illustrate composition and design. There are at least three editions of this book around all with different titles. I think the earliest edition was called 'Strengthen Your Paintings With Dynamic Composition' and the latest being 'Composition for the Painter'.

I only noticed slight differences between the first two titles. I haven't seen the last title, so I can't comment of it, but from the description, it would appear to be a revision of the previous publication. Jackie, There are two problems here. Yes, very few people want to invest the time and effort in the study of design and composition. • Low traffic on this forum which is a direct result of #1 I recently managed to borrow a copy of Nathan Goldstein's Design and Composition. In the preface he laments regarding design books: 'Often they seem too difficult for students to wade through. Frequently, they list and label important design issues rather than explain them.

And despite the useful qualities that most of these design texts possess, they sometimes complicate the subject, make it seem esoteric, and treat it as separate from the artist's purposes and passions.' I fully concur with his analysis of design and composition books for painting.

Probably because design and composition is considered difficult to understand. So for that reason, there aren't that many books to recommend.

I've got the Ian Roberts book referred to by Claude, and I've read one of the Frank Webb books - in fact I saw a copy in the local library recently. Instructional books on art only seem to briefly refer to composition. The reason most 'instructional books on art' seem to briefly refer to composition, is that most 'instructional art books' are not instructional. Many start with the usual padding on materials, followed by a brief instructional section on a particular technique, followed by the almost olbigatory gallery of paintings.