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Painting Tips: Art Composition and Perspective

An ever-growing, helpful collection painting tips on composition and design submitted by fellow artists.
Composition Painting Tip: How to Direct the Viewer's Eye Into a Painting
A painting tip on how to direct the viewer's eyes inwards on a painting.
Top 10 Tips for Painting Composition
Use these composition tips to create stronger paintings.
Composition Painting Tip: Placing Elements in a Painting
A tip on how to place the elements in a painting for a pleasing composition.
Composition Painting Tips -- Add Color to Primer for a Background
A painting tip on how adding color to primer for a background to a painting.
Composition Painting Tip: Direction of Light a Still Life
A tip on how to position the direction of light in a still life painting for a Western audience.
Composition Painting Tip: Leave a Blank Border Around Your Painting
A tip on how why it's important to leave a blank border around a painting,
Composition Painting Tip: Don't Fill in the Spaces
A tip on why painting it not about filling in the spaces.
Composition Painting Tip: Overcoming an Intimidating Blank Canvas
A tip on how to overcome your intimidation of a blank canvas.
Composition Painting Tip: Spotting Mistakes in a Painting
A tip on how to spot 'mistakes' in a painting.
Composition Painting Tip: Squint to Make Out Forms
A tip on how squinting helps you make out forms in a painting.

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