Posts Tagged ‘conveying emotion’
Line and emotion: a warm-up exercise
September 29, 2019
Introduction Why warm up? Creating visual art can be a wonderfully free and intuitive process. But, for a bit of “fine tuning”, it’s worth starting off your day in the studio with a warm up exercise or two. A quick physical warm up is as useful for the artist as it is for the dancer […]
2019 | Blog | Tags: conveying emotion, exercises, warm-ups
Shapes and emotion
May 6, 2014
Above: Leonardo da Vinci “Lady with an Ermine” Shapes are essential to the character of each artistic image. Have you ever glimpsed a painting from a great distance, and understood something of the emotion conveyed by the artist even before discerning the full content of the picture? Along with tone and colour contrast, clear shapes within […]