What does a judge look for in a painting?
- “Composition” – stay out of the center
- “Shapes” – shapes are unique and different
- “Lines” – lead you through a painting
- “Edges” – hard to soft; soft edges around the outside and harder in the interior and at the focal point
- “Color” – one color dominates, use an analogous color wheel
- “Values” – light to dark, enhance the focal point
- “Texture” – use tools in a variety of expressive ways to create texture
Order of a painting
- Stay out of the center – mark the center of your canvas and the center of each edge as a reminder
- What shapes – big to small
- Values – light to dark
- Colors – what is your mother or dominate color that you can satellite out from
