Provide a pathway in your painting composition for the eye to follow in order to make the painting interesting. The longer a viewer is drawn to looking at your painting composition, the more interesting that painting is to them. Your goal is to keep the viewer’s interest by keeping their eye moving around the painting composition, and at the same time preventing the eye leaving the painting or getting trapped in one spot. See how the eye is moved around the painting of Bastia Harbor, keeping the viewer's interest.

In this course unit

This unit will help you learn how to keep the viewer's interest in your painting composition. You will learn:

• how to use the space around shapes to aid the eye movement
• the five most common pitfalls students make relating to eye movement
• the use of 'C', 'S', and 'O' forms as plans for eye movement
• how to create eye movement in three dimensions
• how to use color to keep the viewer's eye moving around the painting composition
• how to prevent the viewer's eye leaving the painting or getting trapped in one spot
• the technique of linking lights to enhance the eye movement paths
• the technique of guiding lights and darks to help keep the viewer's eye moving
• entering points and what to avoid when using them
• the relationship between density of space division and eye movement

Total number of assignments: 4

Total number of pages: 18