As you all can see by my sketch that I hold no paper dear. When an idea hits it could be on a check. With that being said let me explain the top two drawings. I'm not sure if this is a sort of Fibonacci template or where I even first saw it, but it did and it has proven itself to be a fundamental tool for my art.
Most of my florals are vertical, but I did include a horizontal view as this works also with any other genre of art from abstracts, landscapes and figural work. The theory is that you stay out of the middle of the canvas. First the canvas is divided into threes both vertically and horizontally. This infact was the format that Ansel Adams used in his photography. As you can see with my sketch the design is broken up into three sections both top and bottom and side to side. The flowers themselves follow the three top triangles to allow for a pleasing visual composition. I know it must seem laborious but you only do this a few times and you will see that your sketches begin to naturally flow in this direction. The purpose of this is to create a painting that makes your eyes look around, not stop dead become bored and lose interest.
Come back soon to see the beginnings of the painting and the process.
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