Arranging the Picture

Shape and Value

Shapes, gaps and the pattern of dark and light

Under the subject, every picture is a pattern of shapes and of dark and light. Strong pictures plan both.

• Positive and Negative Space
• Notan and Value Massing
• Emphasis and Focal Point

Works in this part

• Laziness (La Paresse)
• Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)
• The Night Watch
• The Denial of Saint Peter

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