You are studying ert te learn to make pie- tures. In your Course. you w/ ture, i takes drewing plus ‘cave planning the arrangement of th ‘Sjncren me picture spoce isto Bane te fre introducing you te its simple funds tmontle ox werly ae your third lesson. Refor Dock to this loston often ~it will ieroase in meaning ond velue with every picture ‘you moke, ater in your Course we will tke up more advanced studies inthis very impor font eapect of moking pictures, which is known os Composition Composition Composition means the slection and arrangement of appropr? se elements within the picture apace #0 tht they expres the fiw’ iden clearly and efectively. Ke makes 4 ayeat deal of Alference how we pit together the things me daw within ose Petre space, Often,» pre wil suceed o fal depending fon how well ts compored ‘Composition, ina have sense, means combining forms and space wo produce a harmonious whole, When we make a pictre sre arrange the pictre elements mich the way compose of Imusic ranges muical note and themes to frm shatonious ren. The omporerof mini creates an arangement in sound Pete we ae chilyimerete in where we place out object Inthe pctne space, how important we make them in se sad ‘ale, and how they relate to eachother and tothe outside bondeaf hepetre Gon pcre, we se, do not simply happen. They are not Sbjct oiling up's background with deal. No mater how tell we draw o print unk we plan our pice cael, FRG weve tie Vlewer with an untied feeling. A well compone_ picture, on the other hand, will give the viewer 4 sated sete of oder or beauty, alg Be eay not relic by what methods hi station was proce Every pete starts with am iden story we have to tl, an elect of mond we are using to commun, In composing sre seleet thre thing for our picture which larly our des, and tre dear howe which sony dsract or cone No mater what the subject of your picture may be, begin by asking yourelf: "What isthe bate iden I want to get sero? ‘What things mut I putin the picture so thatthe viewer will tinderaand ic at once? What Is important ~ and what ia Tn composing, you emphanie thowe clement of your pice that will dramatize ithe most. Unslly this requires change in the ses of things You make important ejees lng 6 clearer or wronger than they may appear in reality, and ew Important objects you make muller or less disine. Object can be featured or plyed down by adjuxting ther pesiion aswell as their ie. For instance, you might place 4 pomertl, important hgre in the male of your plctore space nd draw hit lange so he woul dominate the pictre By om teas aah, etrng character might be shown ch smaller and tothe sie, dominated bythe space and the objects around im The artht can actually eomtfl which part of his pietore the ranges the abject he can esti definite focal point or enter of interest, and lead the eye to Ie indirectly or irc. He canals use light and dark tones to help emphasize this (Otten the att can we the natural shape of hin subject to sol lectin exablishing his compotion andthe proportions [this picture. For example, i the bject ea wide expanse of ‘meadow or ei might well sgest picture of Tong. or zontal shape. Fora picture of long narrow sobjec ikea al Inighedramative the height of the subject most strikingly. it. ferent fora ae often bea exprened by diferent pcre shapes All ofthe are principles you can apply in developing your Frincipes, you will con find yours giving sharper, ceaer Exprenion Co your ideas saying what you want toy dtety Sn interestingly in pitresThe picture starts in your mind Before making a picture the arist ust decide what he wants to show ini He has to select his subject matter, and then be has to arrange it thatthe picture will be at elective as pos sible, But to start with, he neds an idea, Ideas begin in the mind. and that i precisely where pictures begin too. In fact, the mind or imagination isa natural creator fot pictures. When we hear 4 word oF think of an idea, the imag ination goes to work at once and projects picture inthe mind Suppore we hear the phrase “Two lovers are siting on a bench in the park” Instantly the imagination creates picture ofa young man and woman close together on a bench, perhaps locked in each other's arms, We viwalie the walk, the sr rounding tres, the grassy Iv ‘Or, we may be listening to the radio and hear a crime play hich ngine with thew word Te fe deck A le eam Sap toa gas station, From ie the figure of a mam emerges, the lower hall of his face covered bya handkerchiel. He moves silent toward the sation, his right hand thrust eminounly his pocket.” Immediately we conjure up a mental image, pietire ofthe whole tenslonpackel scene: the ear, motor Tune hing. drawn up alongside the gas pumps. the dooe singing ‘open, the sinister figure ofthe gunman moving swiftly toward {he station, Every word i fel tothe imagination. ‘We are always forming sich mental images of things which terial of sehich pictures are made The First mental image which our mind forme in response to a picture idea is just one possibilty. As we chink about i, other ann better views may occur to us, We mist try out thee vata ions before deciding which will make the est picture “The atte thinkson paper. Av one image follows another unzough the mind, we put them doen on paper in the form of rough sketches, working out the arrangement of the abjete twhich we see in our imagination, Both oar thinking and ovr Sketching should be broad and flexible at this point. Thief not the time to bother with details the tom diene, h re gram uh ad hy ‘mgt mem i onthe igure for © dep iw fe) Tih nosy sos we hr pe (cul ance corned pp Nah4 3 Composition — how to make pictures and arranging +E The elements enibeThe four main elements of compos sie elem . Here we show you what thee elements mea, and how Austin Briggs uses them to compose 4 Pcture. At the art you will probably apply tach of these principles very con With experience, however, you will compose your pic tutes the way your Faculty members do instnc tively thinking of area, depth, line, and valve all Picture area