Subscribe to our newsletter. No amount of detail will save a poorly designed painting and learning to isolate the large masses as you start your painting will improve your design. Squinting eliminates the smaller values, color and shapes and helps make the large masses recognizable. Once you can picture your subject in large, abstract masses you can begin planning your painting. Only after you have identified these large masses should you think about the smaller details.
Many painters do a tonal painting or sketch before they actually start painting.
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