This book is a larger version of a previous publication, "Into Composition" but expanded to include advice and details from the art, painting and lecturing experience from a career teaching, demonstrating and lecturing in painting and graphic composition.

I do not pretend to be a particularly talented or naturally outstanding practitioner with an inborn ability to arrive at the right solution instinctively. After acquiring enough skill as a competent painter most of my efforts have been directed into developing into a good art teacher. The more I learn from artists I respect the more I realise that full competence is a combination of consistent hard work and the willingness to learn from practitioners who have gained thei...

A Guide for all Two Dimensional work drawing on classical and contemporary sources with comprehensive illustratration.

I see composition as the basic skeleton of a painting, all the flesh of colour, texture, detail and technique need strong bones to carry the weight. I believe that composition is the secret key to success in painting. To give some meaning to the term composition two aspects need to be considered. First, in a good composition the parts of the painting should link to or have a special relationship to the frame. Second the various parts of the painting should have an inte...