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Composition basics:
- Eye movement
- LEading lines
- Focal points
- Rule of thirds


 Eye movement

Are You Making Any of These 7 Compositional Mistakes with Your Still life Paintings? - will kemp art school

Leading Lines

Rule of thirds

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Focal Points

There are many ways to create a focal point. Many of feature CONTRAST. 
- Color at focal point stands out
- Focus - focal point is sharp and background is blurry
- Value contrast at focal point 
- Size of focal point stands out
- Shape of focal point stands out


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Find or assemble a still life PHOTOGRAPH:
- Must be a photograph and not a painting
- Must be a still life
- Must have 5 different objects with some overlap

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Print out your image and:
- Circle the focal points
- Draw the eye movement flow
- List what makes these spots focal points


Use the following website to crop your image to make it 9x12 proportion or use the following video to crop in Photoshop
Grid Drawing Tool by ArtTutor.
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Follow these steps
- upload your photo
- Go to step 5 to grid your photo. You want your photo to be 3x4 (portrait) squares wide 4x3 (landscape) square wide. Click on examples below 
- Download photo and save it to your drive
- Print out photo with grid on it

Practice blending oil pastels

Before you begin your still life, we will do a blending practice exercise. 
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