Creative Design

Creative Design

Creative and intelligent design in a painting is desirable and actually should be planned. While spontaneity is also a much desired and looked for trait, especially in a watercolor painting, at times a planned creative design is needed and neccessary.

For example, in a landscape, you have many points to consider....elements of color, size, balance, directional lighting, values, perspective, shape, and texture. You might want to just throw all this into the mix and see what comes out of the mix....or you might just want to plan a nice balance and create a nice structure to create a sense of order.

In a landscape, you have planes. Sky, for instance, would be on the back plane, mountains would be on the next one closer to the viewer, a valley would be on a mid-plane and the area directly in front would be the closet plane.

You would want to take into account how much detail would be put where. And where is your strongest source of light going to come from? And from there, you must choose where your strongest lights will be, and following that, where your strongest darks will be.

Creative Design can actually be your strongest point in planning in painting....and the most fun!

Madeleine Jacobs
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