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Landscape Composition, A Few Basic Rules Composition is the plan of design elements, color, light/values, and perspective in a painting or drawing. Here are a few simple “rules” to help set up a good start for a painting or drawing.

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Landscape Composition

Landscape Composition, A Few Basic Rules Composition is the plan of design elements, color, light/values, and perspective in a painting or drawing. Here are a few simple “rules” to help set up a good start for a painting or drawing.

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Landscape Composition

A Few Basic Rules


Composition is the plan of design elements,
. color, light/values, and perspective in a painting or drawing.
Here are a few simple “rules” to help set up a good start for a painting or drawing.

1. 2.
Horizon Line

NO

Place the horizon line somewhere above One-third rule: Imaginary lines divide the paper
or below the midpoint. DO NOT place the into thirds. Place the center of interest at
horizon line in the middle. one of the intersections of the lines.

3. 4.

Use design elements that create a The center of interest, wherever it is located,
visual path to the center of interest. should have the strongest color, with the most
contrast.

5. 6.

NO YES

Have some kind of horizontal, vertical, Pathways, trails, rivers, or roads should be
and diagonal design element. curved paths, not straight lines.

7. 8.

YES

NO
DO NOT start a visual path from an exact corner. DO NOT have a vertical object leaning outward.
Better to start from a little above or to the side of DO NOT have obvious ‘X’ shapes in objects
the corner. that are crossing.

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