“…gradient with no horizontals is an aspect of the vertical.” Thanks for clarifying that at the end. These videos are so helpful! 🙏🏻
@valeriachilders
Ай бұрын
Those are the kind of videos that makes me love art/paintings even more. You are fantastic! You are helping so many people around the world with the best art education anyone can get and it is free. this is just wonderful.
@maureengarcia5478
2 жыл бұрын
You're one of the best art teachers I have ever had even as undergraduate student in art 50 years ago.
@uksomerset80
Ай бұрын
Thank you Ian, for your weekly video. It is like a data base of painting tips, only if I know how to keep each video together for future reference. very grateful for your generosity and teaching. looking forward to your next video. Tia from Somerset UK🙏
@firdyk
Ай бұрын
Thank you for these short weekly videos
@treestalktoo8117
Ай бұрын
Lovely clear information. Thank you Ian, I am really enjoying this series of videos. So glad I signed up!
@dorisr6424
23 күн бұрын
So helpful, thank you Ian. Love the vertical pattern of the sofa back. Or should I say divan.
@elsajones1218
9 ай бұрын
I get it now! I went to art school and didn't get this much instruction. Thank you, Ian!
@tziporaneemanfeder1813
Ай бұрын
I've been struggling with the composition of a painting I did and this video, I believe, will give me the solution. THANKS !
@anastassiyakim7041
Ай бұрын
Hi, Ian, thanks a lot for the course, I enjoy it so much. My suggestion would be maybe you can include a bit more examples in each video (love it soo much) and put some pics for exercises?
@elencosta4659
10 күн бұрын
Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
@sunnyseacat6857
8 ай бұрын
Interesting about horizontals and verticals in oil painting. So glad you used landscape and figure paintings to show of both these elements. In Sargeant's painting, there are the obvious triangles, all pointing upwards to her head, and then there is the shawl itself, which looks triangular, also aiming for her head. Interesting about the end of the couch where her right arms rests: it is so busy with diagonals. Was this intentional? How different the painting might have been if: 1) the arm-rest (?) were a solid color, pretty much, 2) the books and box on the left were omitted, 3) here eyes were slightly opened looking to the viewer grinning a sly grin. Hmm. Another well-explained, easily digestible analysis of vertical and horizontal examples.
@puccini70
2 жыл бұрын
These videos are really helpful. Short and Sweet and Substantive! Thank you!
Very helpful. I enjoy your videos - and have always considered composition to be the make or break skill. You break it down well
@jeanettebarnard944
Жыл бұрын
I thoroughly enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge in such an helpful and informative way. Greatly appreciate your insights and lessons.
@gerriekaychurch658
2 жыл бұрын
I can’t tell you how much your videos help me understand!
@gaylemartin6498
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Ian, for this information. Take care. g
@markmahoney6399
4 жыл бұрын
i also love your book. after 9 year of painting and studying books, magazines and videos, i came across your book at the library but then had to own my own copy. it is now in my "A" personal art library. i am glad to see you online. thank you for your generous sharing of knowledge.
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
4 жыл бұрын
Well that is a fine comment. Thank you so much. Glad you find it helpful.
@JonFagin-xv6ww
Жыл бұрын
I was in the second week of my painting slump after being exposed to my first art show. Luckily I found you and watched four of your videos the first day and ordered your book. I don't know if I had a mental breakthrough or if it's your explanations but I now understand. Thank you for your work. Jon F.
@fayee8986
2 жыл бұрын
I also would like to say I have thoroughly enjoyed your videos. I find them very informative, and necessary for improvement. Thank you for sharing your knowledge
@bobbiekelsten5950
3 жыл бұрын
I want to thank you for these wonderfully concise and accessible lessons. I’ve been watching a few each week and receiving the new ones. This video, in particular helped me to add a dynamic element and movement to a painting that I just finished. I was struggling to find a way to create some excitement that was sorely lacking. Employing the vertical turned it from a flat boring picture into a much more interesting composition. I am so grateful for your generosity in sharing your knowledge with us in this forum. Especially now, when finding learning opportunities is limited and possibly dangerous for some of us.
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
3 жыл бұрын
Bobbie, I am delighted to hear that you found the video helpful. Best wishes, Ian
@JoyGeorgeBryden
2 жыл бұрын
Each of your videos educates and inspires me. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, and in such an engaging and concise way.
@GarySmithartist
Жыл бұрын
Love it. Really important and valuable concepts. "see" you next week.
@debraedmunds3649
2 жыл бұрын
Perhaps Sargent had a natural ability to see horizontal and vertical lines. Interesting how your lesson accentuates these important factors in a good painting. Thank you!
@ddkratochvil5593
2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant instruction. Throughly engaging.
@pennydefreyne
Ай бұрын
So helpful thank you Ian and so much to think about too. Loved the Sargent exposé too!
@kamleshsunak3176
Жыл бұрын
Very educative and inspiring. Thanks Ian for sharing your knowledge. Look forward to the next demo mini lesson! Best wishes.
@jeanhirons2242
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this Ian. I'm very glad that you've simplified the discussion. I never think or teach in terms of armateurs; I like to just focus on the horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines in the picture plane and what they can do for us. Great discussion of the Sargent and the use of triangles!
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jean. I think the horizontal and vertical is just a simpler way to think of armatures. All the best.
@janetsunshine8689
Жыл бұрын
Very good video. Thank you for doing this!
@sueedelstein5568
Жыл бұрын
As always Ian, thank you for your generous teachings
@josephfcampisejr7816
2 жыл бұрын
Ian...thank you so much for your brief but to the point analysis of composition...I am learning so much from it!!
@amykeane6611
3 ай бұрын
Great, short video tecahing an important prionciple!
@jackgawel5710
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Ian for putting things in such an understandable way, just signed up for your email and I've already gained more confidence, blessings for all your efforts!
@dianeparks3026
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your engaging and so so helpful insights and lessons. Greatly Appreciate your generous and understandable instructions.
@marymarzano6350
Жыл бұрын
You are helping me to finally get it!! Thank you! I’ll keep watching.
@user-qn4en3px8f
Ай бұрын
Thank you so much for your full of concepts short videos.
@BabciCathy
4 жыл бұрын
I've seen the Sargent painting live and I knew I loved it because of the brush strokes. I missed the composition and triangles completely. Thanks for an excuse to go back to see it again.
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
4 жыл бұрын
There's nothing like seeing them live is there?
@jandaniel9133
2 жыл бұрын
Once you mentioned the triangles in the painting I could see many triangles might be fun to count them. I dont quite get the composition rules yet. Lots to learn. Thank you Ian.
@suarezromelia3115
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot, you make me wanting to learn more and more. 😊
@skyofhoney7
3 жыл бұрын
Great video. Do you ever think about analysing the composition of abstract paintings?
@thvrijhof-kruit7357
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Ian!
@fatoomgierdien2181
3 жыл бұрын
Wow.... Really helpful!! Thank You. From Cape Town.
@franpauze404
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much for these excellent quick videos. Lots to think about and very helpful.
@kellycreek6142
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I have your book MASTERING COMPOSITION/DVD and it is simply the best on breaking down the information. I appreciate the time you put into these videos. I feel like I am in a college art class. LOVE IT!!
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
3 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome Kelly
@lanaschuster7630
4 жыл бұрын
That was very illuminating. I realize I have mostly focused on the horizontal (and at times wondered if my work was too boring) and from your classes and this video how important the vertical is, not to mention the diagonal. The idea of the horizontal line from the frame, the darkness there creating a tension with the light wall and her head is interesting - it would not be the same without the dark frame above. And then the diagonals - I'm not sure I even noticed them before you pointed them out and now they seem so obvious. I will be looking more at which direction lines are going in the future. And about that cloth - I kind of think he added it in after, but maybe not. She looks so elegant to be doing dishes, yet perhaps that is what she is taking a rest from. Thank you for this video Ian. I am going to get through them all one by one.
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
4 жыл бұрын
Glad you are enjoying them Lana. They fit pretty well with the course.
@franciscanoe1522
2 жыл бұрын
excellent Ian, thanks again
@jesselaneartworkshops866
4 жыл бұрын
So much information packed into just 8 minutes. Thanks so much for doing these and making them available at no charge. Looking forward to more. I've also ordered your book!
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
4 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it Jocelyn.
@elisabeth6386
3 жыл бұрын
You are the best. Thank you so much.
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Lisa. Appreciate your letting me know your are enjoying the videos.
@mariamalenta6574
3 жыл бұрын
So well explained 🙏🏻
@carinwiseman4309
2 жыл бұрын
Would like to see you address this subject as relating to figure, with more examples. Thanks.
@Lindaartwc
4 жыл бұрын
I love that you are sharing this with everyone! Nice job!
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Linda.
@carolepivarnik9316
4 жыл бұрын
I love your book and DVDs on plein air painting and composition. They've been very helpful to me. Really cool to see you sharing on KZitem.
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
4 жыл бұрын
Glad you are enjoying them.
@lauraparker6832
4 жыл бұрын
Interesting what you say about gradation being a form of the vertical ... makes sense, but I'd never have thought of it that way!
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
4 жыл бұрын
Next week or the week after I want to do one on the role that gradations can play in moving our attention across any shape in a painting. All the best to you.
@margotmorrell3765
3 жыл бұрын
I have been struggling to engage a vertical in my seascapes. I very much enjoy painting the water and don't usually like to include a lot of the shore activity. So it's been a challenge. I was glad to hear that the gradation e.g. of the colors or values of water changing from the horizon downwards can be technically considered a vertical. But is it enough of a vertical in a seascape?
@Lafortuneist
3 жыл бұрын
thank you
@Kathyhowfun
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Ian, thanks for the video.
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
4 жыл бұрын
Welcome Kathy.
@garydunetz1308
2 жыл бұрын
Ian, your videos are concise and I have found the key points stick with me. I most appreciate your discussions on creating art that captivates. I follow a number of excellent artists and find your videos the most helpful. I greatly appreciate your analysis, planning and composition. Do you on occasion paint freely or intuitively? Thank you
@ushadilip3039
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you So much , you make this lesson so simple and it gives lots of details to work.🙏🏾
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it Usha. Best wishes.
@digitalartistmurlinath2195
2 жыл бұрын
Great work sir 👨🏻🎨👨🏻🎨👨🏻🎨. #artistmurlinath
@bevpaints
4 жыл бұрын
I loved this video! I am going to get your book mastering composition at the library soon to check it out before purchase! I found a third triangle in sargents work as well. I am interested in another’ series with figures and portraits treated as landscape. I think this will help me go to the next level
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Bev, my wife was saying she saw a third triangle too. Thanks for watching.
@alancestors
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Ian, I see a third triangle in the painting just to the right pointing to her head
@sylhayes8152
2 жыл бұрын
So useful
@martinkunze878
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video! Did Sargent Singer made sketches for the picture to develop the composition? Did he make several sketches? The position of the vertical on the frame is not quit clear for me (5:58 min). In combination with the head of the figure yes, but with the frame alone?
@loriannlevy-holm84
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting these gems.
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
3 жыл бұрын
You are most welcome Lori Ann.
@wisdomite1971
9 күн бұрын
It TV directing they call it Z axis movement
@masterpiecetools131
3 жыл бұрын
For what it is worth, Stafan Baumann has a rule that "we don't paint things, we paint effects". I have heard well know experts on Sargent say that he often seemed bored with the faces, and went overboard in a good way on the clothes. Then eventually he lost interest in doing portraits. I wonder if it corresponded with a period where the clothing worn by the rich had entered a dive towards Jobs and his t-shirts, and jeans... So in both pictures the most exciting part is actually in the right foreground. The big effects are in the grass and the fabric petticoat. His niece's face is actually soft pedaled. That tree is barely visible, and will need some Xmas lights, or something... I gather that science of pupil movement has now debunked the idea of poeple's eyes being led into the picture by various structures. Apparently when eye movements are tracked, they are seemingly random, and jumpy. Anyway, glad to be here. I am getting the book, and I will be working my way through all the videos. Thanks.
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
3 жыл бұрын
Hi, I think Sargent got tired of painting portraits because he got tired of the people and what they wanted. Al least from what I've read about why he stopped. But you bring up an interesting point, those dark suits the men wore and the single light source from a north facing window, seemed so conducive to strong and dramatic design. As you say a well lit room and T-shirts perhaps less so.
@ronniecremers2354
4 жыл бұрын
I am reading your book now and find it so helpful. The video is showing me the concept of verticals and horizontals which I have some difficulty seeing. I need more practice or is there another way to train my eye? thanks for this series.
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
4 жыл бұрын
Ronnie, I think honestly it is shift from left to right brain perception. You just have to keep leaning on seeing in terms of the shapes of the value masses and how they are structured on your canvas. And stripping away a lot of the distracting detail. You'll get it. Best wishes, Ian.
@carolina.rentes
3 жыл бұрын
Hey Ian, thank you for those videos, they've been helping me a lot! I have one question though... Approximately in the mark of 4 minutes you are talking about the tree in the middle and you said "something aways have to be in the middle". I didn't quite understand that. Sorry if it's something you've already explained, It's been a few years since I read your book.
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Carol, I just meant it is hard to make a painting on a rectangle without something being in the middle. You can't just leave it blank canvas. What I was saying was just common sense, not a compositional idea. Best, Ian.
@sallybrowningpearson4739
3 жыл бұрын
That was the photos I emailed you about. Thanks. If I can I'll email you what I did
@anikajainchuriwala9508
3 жыл бұрын
Lot of old masters used the golden ratio in their work... how relevant is that today?
@ebuzzmiller9178
Жыл бұрын
I was thinking about the diagonals in the composition. Would you consider that triangles are also important in the composition?
@sunnyseacat6857
8 ай бұрын
Where do the triangles point? Ah....
@senizmcmullen484
Ай бұрын
Gradation feels like horizontal to me. So I was surprised to hear that it indicates vertical. Perhaps it is both, what do you think?
@amelinachaouachi4731
Ай бұрын
Does this also apply to abstract painting? Thank you.
@anthonychezzi
11 ай бұрын
Do you use water soluble oils? Any tips?
@shanemcdonaldstudios
Жыл бұрын
Can you address the use of a 1x2 (say 24hx48w inches or similar) aspect ratio on a historical painting using the horizontal and vertical concept? I find no examples of it in your book or that of Edgar Payne. Is it just a bad idea to paint wide landscapes?
@fayee8986
2 жыл бұрын
Yes I have a question thank you, maybe it's a n request. I'll find myself interested in painting still life, it seemed so easy just to pay stuff in front of you. LOL however the placement of objects and the the light is somewhat confusing to me as well as the color. Please help thank you. I will add it is my personal taste not to have cluttered objects
@MaxTheGlue
3 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy your book and now these videos(the DVD did not work), as a hobbyist at landscape photography, your knowledge is really the un-taugh aspect of photography. If you could adapt your message to photography, I believe you would have a great audience from photography.
@IanRobertsMasteringComposition
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Maxime, I'm glad you liked the video. Are you saying the DVD in Mastering Composition did not work. If so let me know and I'll get you a new one or a download.
@samulesaxo
2 жыл бұрын
At 2:28 you say 'top left' but I guess you mean 'top right', right?
@gol622
2 жыл бұрын
Don't like Sargents painting there's so much foliage the dress 🥻 looks like it's a ton weight on that tiny figure. thank you for your videos I have been following your instructions on composition 🙏💜
@RichardBerube-df7zb
Жыл бұрын
I enjoy all of your videos, but for some reason, your comments are barely audible when you are sketching.
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