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Joined: Jun 2001
Location: Peterborough, NH
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Strong diagonals and composition
I notice that some paintings have strong diagonals going directly into corners. If you can offset these diagonals so that they miss the corners, you will, I think, have a better composition.
I have illustrated this below in the most simple way I can think of:
The second illustration is static.
The first illustration makes for a better composition.
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